An independent weekly newspaper in Berkshire is to launch a new edition next week.

The 145 year-old Newbury Weekly News will launch its Hungerford edition on Thursday 16 February.

Newspaper bosses say readers will get more pictures and news from where they live, and in a ‘get more, miss nothing bid’ it will also contain all the news from the Newbury edition.

Newbury Weekly News editorial director Brien Beharrell said: “As someone who previously worked as the NWN’s district reporter for the Hungerford area for 16 years, I’m delighted that we now have the opportunity to launch a Hungerford edition of the NWN.

“The NWN has been available in the Hungerford area since February 1867, and celebrates its 145th year almost to the very week of the Hungerford launch, so the timing to launch its first additional weekly edition – specifically for the Hungerford area – is particularly significant.”

The new edition will be available from each Thursday throughout the Hungerford, Kintbury and Lambourn area.

It will have its own front page devoted to news from the Hungerford area, and there will be more space for Hungerford area news inside. The back page will feature sports story of the week.

Added Brien: “We now warmly welcome news from these communities – whether it is submitted reports and pictures sent in via the telephone, post or email, news snippets of upcoming local events, dates for our Hungerford area diary, or other newsworthy items to be covered by our staff reporters and photographers, or submitted by local people themselves.”