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I suppose we ought to be thankful that we still have a genuine local paper.  Lots of towns seem to be loosing theirs; often blamed on the BBC local news reports each day.  I'm not sure that's really the case because it's so dire!  At least NWN are trying.

Yes, very trying. I see the Newbury Weekly News only objective is to make money, not serve the people of Newbury. I think they should have more of the voice of the people, which would mean a bigger letter page.

Perhaps it's just the modern fashion; minimalist!  Some of the decorations are decidedly weird, Parkway being a good example.

Hungerford have good decorations. I think Newbury is just cheap.

You might not have been impressed, but talking to people who did buy it, a lot were. Which proves the point that you can't please everybody all of the time. For me; I thought it was interesting and different. As for those that were confused, it might be worth looking closer at their mind's stability or not. Just a thought ;)

As Henry Miller said: "Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."

Something new will hopefully liven things up.

It's nice to see them but they do seem distinctly modest.  I'm not quite sure why we can't simply keep the same ones year on year and simply add to the collection.

I wouldn't even call them modest, just very little or crap.

I have been to many towns with brilliant Christmas decorations. Even Hungerford's decorations are good, but ours are total crap. Why? You would think that with all the money Newbury council are screwing out of the motorist (for parking) they could put up some half decent decorations. I presume they are not doing this as they need the money to give themselves a higher pay rise.

Of course nobody parks there anymore, they (the council) are trying to push people out of Newbury and to other towns or Retail Parks. I know many people who shop where there is parking friendly areas. I hardly shop in Newbury anymore, unless it is Sainsbury's.

Whoever wins there will have to be cuts, the question is how do we do it? Labour's way by spending (and saving, as they say) or the Tories way? I prefer the Tories way; get it over quickly. All Labour want to do is prolong it. And don't forget that it was Labour that got us into this mess in the first place.

We need a change in politics and I think UKIP offer that. They might not win, but might have an important say.

By what I read above she seems to have what it takes to represent Newbury.