LOCAL darts player, Bob Penman, broke a 39-year-old Bracknell and Binfield League record back in 1978, when he threw three 180’s, in a match for Boot B at the Winkfield Club.

Bob, from Crowthorne, (where he was a nursing assistant at Broadmoor Hospital) had been playing darts for 35 years, passed the previous record of three 180’s (in a whole season) in just one match.

Trail blazing conservation work started at the Englemere nature reserve 42 years ago, when Bracknell College Conservation Corps opened up the sites heathland area-to conserve local wildlife, whilst providing recreation areas for the general public.

A Nature Trail is also planned and a spokesperson for the College team explained to the Bracknell News: “At the moment we are clearing felled pine trees to try and open up more of the heathland on the 65-acre site, it’s hard work, but everyone is enjoying it!”

A group of local parents, near Great Hollands, contacted the News to highlight the dangers they were facing crossing the nearby busy roads, such as the Ringmead.

In an effort to reach the nearby Health Clinic and shops, they were walking in the roadway itself, due to a complete lack of pavements or pedestrian crossing points.

A spokesperson for the local residents expressed their fears: “We need help on this one, having to walk on the grass verge is an ordeal especially for wheelchair users and the traffic passes by within inches of us all.”

The Chequers pub in London Road, Sunningdale reopened after a £20,000 refit in 1978-with a bigger bar and food area plus new landlords.

The eagle-eyed ‘News team’ of reporters and editors realised that the new landlords surname,’Pulling’, was the best part of this particular story.

Describing Julie and Bruce as “the pint-pulling Pullings”, the couple confessed they had travelled the length and breadth of the UK, from their home in nearby Windlesham, only to find the pub of their dreams two miles down the road. Julie Pulling who gave up her job as a British Airways stewardess told the News:” I’m really looking forward to this but I know it is going to be a lot of hard work.”

A fascinating photo of Bracknell High Street from the early 1900’s was alongside a contemporary image to see just how much the area had changed in 80 years.

The News concluded in its editorial, that Bracknell’s pubs go on for ever, as witnessed by the Red Lion still being there, but any change is outweighed by improving shopping, transport and cinema complex.