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Page last updated at 13:19 GMT, Sunday, 8 November 2009

Frederick Potts
Audio slideshow: Potts - the hero with the shovel
Discover the remarkable story of the late WWI hero Fred Potts, the only Reading soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

A sketch of a Palaeolithic camp Thatcham - the oldest in Britain?
A new book Thatcham's history looks at evidence that the town may be the oldest 'continuously inhabited' place in Britain.

A carved angel Newbury graves come back to life
Newtown Road cemetery is to reopen to visitors, who can view its beautifully carved stone angels, scrolls and war memorials.


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The syphilitic Newbury skeleton
Life as child evacuee in Mortimer
The history of the Maiwand Lion
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