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A VANDAL who went on a spree across Henley has been branded “pathetic”.
Town councillor Donna Crook was speaking after street furniture and shop windows were all daubed with graffiti.
A wall of the Henley 60+ Social Club, where older residents meet up, was also spray painted.
Tags and slogans, some using foul and homophobic language, appeared overnight on Wednesday last week.
They were drawn in various colours including red, silver, black and blue and included the nickname “Kazo” as well as insults directed at others who had left tags previously.
Cllr Crook has been out since then scrubbing off the graffiti from bus stops in Hart Street and Reading Road, noticeboards and planters in Market Place and off Greys Road and from the telephone cable cabinet in Station Road.
Experienced pair to go head-to-head for county council seat );
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HENLEY’S representative on Oxfordshire County Council is hoping to retain the position for another four years.
Stefan Gawrysiak, who represents Henley Residents Group, is standing again in the local council elections on Thursday, May 6.
He will be up against Conservative candidate Paul Harrison, from Sonning Common, a former member of South Oxfordshire District Council.
Councillor Gawrysiak, who lives in Elizabeth Road, Henly, with his partner Catherine Notaras, is also a member of the district council and Henley Town Council and was Mayor of Henley in 2013/14.
He won the county council seat at the 2017 elections, defeating the incumbent David Nimmo Smith, a
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TWENTY mourners met outside Henley town hall on Tuesday to watch the funeral procession of a community stalwart.
Mary Aldred, of Luker Avenue, passed away at home on March 11, aged 90. The mother-of-two had lived locally for most of her life. She was part of a pressure group which successfully lobbied for the new Henley leisure centre, off Gillotts Lane, in the late Seventies.
Her funeral was held at Reading Crematorium on Tuesday with limited attendance due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The procession drove slowly past the town hall in Market Place where family, friends and Mayor Ken Arlett stood to pay their respects. Former mayor Gill Dodds also attended as she had presented Mrs Aldred with the town medal in 2009 for her work in the community. There was also a board displaying old photographs,
Why I quit Henley Residents Group by Deputy Mayor );
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HENLEY’S Deputy Mayor has explained why he quit the ruling party on the town council.
David Eggleton resigned from Henley Residents Group following a heated debate at a meeting of the council’s town and community committee about plans to replace the town’s 22 heritage litter bins at a cost of £19,000.
He advised it would be cheaper to refurbish the mainly cast iron bins but when colleagues disagreed he became annoyed and quit before the online meeting had finished.
Councillor Eggleton, who now sits as an independent councillor, told the
Carpenter leaves £20,000 to social club for elderly );
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A LIFELONG Henley resident who died earlier this year has bequeathed £20,000 to the town’s 60-Plus Club.
Edward “Ted” Dorey was a keen user of the day centre in Greys Road car park and wanted to ensure others would continue to benefit as it has struggled financially in the past.
The money comes from the sale of Albert House in Greys Road, where the 85-year-old lived for most of his life before downsizing to a neighbouring property in 2015. He died at home on February 17.
Mr Dorey, a retired joiner, wood turner and carpenter, also left a 3ft by 3ft portrait of himself which was painted by Henley artist Clive Hemsley. This was delivered to the club on Saturday by Dean Allen, a former neighbour who knew Mr Dorey from a young age and was both his carer and executor of his will.