I had planned a picnic, but that was scuppered by the dark, dark, threatening clouds that loomed over Berkshire this afternoon. |
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In Anglo-Saxon times Wessex was a large kingdom of the West Saxons covering the present counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire. |
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Passengers described the terror felt after the train smashed into a car at a level crossing in Berkshire and was plunged into sudden darkness. |
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Right across Berkshire, the combine harvesters are out forging their paths up and down, along and across the hayfields. |
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I look past the rain-stained signposts directing the Berkshire motorist towards the delights of Wokingham or Earley. |
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The TV programme is offering Berkshire people the chance to have their say on camera. |
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The location would appear to be the great hall of their country house, something in Berkshire, perhaps. |
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The Royal meet will be hosted at York's Knavesmire in June as its home course in Berkshire undergoes a massive facelift. |
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Or, perhaps, the Thames Valley Police inherited the unsolved case file from the Berkshire Constabulary, when it became part of their force. |
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It's made in Berkshire from unpasteurised sheep's milk, usually reserved for firmer cheeses, but Wigmore is soft and voluptuous. |
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It received a big boost in 1937, when the King and Queen toured a social club in Slough, Berkshire and casually threw darts at a dartboard. |
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They must decide later this year whether the Berkshire course can host the spectacular in spite of the building work. |
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The Berkshire tragedy involved an intercity train which hit a car parked on an unmanned crossing. |
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In blazing sunshine, punters packed the Berkshire racecourse sipping champagne and treating themselves to portions of strawberries and cream. |
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The damage caused by the Berkshire train crash is so bad that the whole section of track will have to be relaid. |
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This season the Berkshire club have lost only four times in 21 games, with seven wins and three draws from 13 league matches. |
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She also made remarkable changes to her country seat at Sandleford Priory, near Newbury in Berkshire. |
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The 30 year old lead singer was born in Reading, Berkshire but has strong family ties with Mayo. |
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Old Wellingtonians from Berkshire, UK, may have fielded two Oxford blues but they were not prepared for the resolve of the Panthers. |
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The Berkshire pig is the oldest breed of pig in Britain, but its numbers are dwindling. |
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The Kingsdown-based family business is providing the ale at its hostelries across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable. |
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Having successfully dodged active service, he spent most of the war in Berkshire, writing radio talks for the BBC and bookish articles for the Statesman. |
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Buffett said that three-quarters of his businesses under the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella are doing better. |
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Berkshire East ski resort near the Vermont border, which has 44 trails, has taken this power-production drive a step further. |
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The boys began helping the Household Cavalry shift sandbags for flood victims at Datchet, Berkshire, at 6am today. |
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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is expected to provide about 25 percent of the deal's financing. |
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The exterior locations benefit also from the inherent visual drama of wood-frame houses and boxy, refitted mill buildings seen against the tumescent Berkshire hills. |
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Although it is fairly common, in late spring, in Berkshire, to see dirigibles swooshing gently across the early evening sky, it still remains a moment to lift the soul. |
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In March, boffins at the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire found that using a mobile phone while driving was more dangerous than being drunk behind the wheel. |
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It didn't take long to track down two types of bullace in West Berkshire in the surrounding area, thanks to Newbury Weekly News readers and BBC Radio Berkshire listeners. |
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Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception. |
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He spent some months in early 1918 in the small, rural village of Hermitage near Newbury, Berkshire. |
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He has also lived in North Stoke, Oxfordshire, Clewer near Windsor, Berkshire, Lowestoft in Suffolk and Chelsea Harbour in London. |
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It was based in a former airfield, Harwell, Berkshire, and a former Royal Ordnance Factory, Risley in Cheshire. |
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Winchester was divided in AD 909, with Wiltshire and Berkshire transferring to the new See of Ramsbury. |
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The likely fast ground in Berkshire will help Paco Boy use what is a devastating turn of foot. |
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The group moved to a house in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and spent most of 1994 training. |
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A whole sketchbook of work from this time in Berkshire survives as well as a watercolour of Oxford. |
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Thai-born Nuttawut Nadauld was found dead on a footpath in Wokingham, Berkshire, with 16-year-old neighbour Steven Bayliss on Sunday night. |
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Berkshire and OMERS announced on May 3, 2011 that they had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Husky from Onex Corporation. |
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It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. |
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The Great Western Main Line passes through Berkshire and southern Buckinghamshire. |
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The North Downs Line runs from Berkshire then through Surrey to connect with Sussex and Kent. |
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Many high technology companies are located near the M3 in Surrey and the M4 in Berkshire. |
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Berkshire is split into unitary authorities, and Wokingham, Windsor and Slough have the next best GCSE results. |
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All of Berkshire's unitary authorities have results above the England average, with West Berkshire considerably above average. |
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Alfred was born in the village of Wanating, now Wantage, historically in Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire. |
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The consultant, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, also endured other ordeals to prove that he was worthy to be a sangoma, or healer. |
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Similar arrangements exist in Berkshire, where the county council has been abolished. |
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Cameron was born in Marylebone, London, and raised in Peasemore, Berkshire. |
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At the age of thirteen, he went on to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother. |
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Although there is no county council in Berkshire, these six unitary authorities comprise the ceremonial county of Berkshire. |
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Berkshire was split into six unitary authorities, but not formally abolished. |
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Sometimes shire county is used to exclude Berkshire, because it has no county council. |
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Also on this day, two small areas were ceded from Surrey and Buckinghamshire to Berkshire, giving it a border with Greater London. |
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But Lardy Cake isn't really a London thing anyway. Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire is to my mind the epicentre of lardies. |
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On the southern bank were the counties of Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent. |
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For example, some areas were transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire, and from Buckinghamshire to Berkshire. |
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The River Thames flows through a gap between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns. |
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It covered east Somerset and parts of the counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and at some periods extended into Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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To the south lie Bedfont and Stanwell while to the west Heathrow is separated from Slough in Berkshire by the M25 motorway. |
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The school is located in Holyport, Berkshire and Eton College acts as the main educational sponsor of the school. |
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Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. |
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Wayland is associated with Wayland's Smithy, a burial mound in the Berkshire Downs. |
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In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. |
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In 1700, his family moved to a small estate at Popeswood in Binfield, Berkshire, close to the royal Windsor Forest. |
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Other nuclear weapons sites could be found in Cardiff and Burghfield near Reading, Berkshire. |
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In 1688, on his way to London, Bunyan made a detour to Reading, Berkshire, to try and resolve a quarrel between a father and son. |
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Unplugged features Clapton performing live in front of a small audience on 16 January 1992 at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, Berkshire, England. |
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David was transferred to Windsor Castle in Berkshire upon the return of Edward III from France. |
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Founded in Berkshire, the company later moved to Devon and took over old North Wales seedsmen Dobies. |
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These identities are distinctly national in ways which proud people from Yorkshire, much less proud people from Berkshire will never know. |
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He married 2nd, Elizabeth Norreys daughter of Sir John Norreys of Heywood, Bray, Berkshire. |
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Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world's wealthiest people, Columbia Business School. |
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It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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The chalk uplands run northeast into West Berkshire in the Marlborough Downs ridge, and southwest into Dorset as Cranborne Chase. |
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The region is the controlling centre for local radio stations BBC Radio Oxford, BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Solent. |
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He was eventually certified insane in 1979 and lived the remainder of his life in Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire. |
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He is buried in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Basildon, Berkshire, near his birthplace. |
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Diggens, from Reading, Berkshire, and Ingoldsby, 18, from Henley-on-Thames deny murdering Mr Langford last December. |
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A campaign was mounted to return the Uffington White Horse to Berkshire, and a bonfire was lit at the site by protestors as the Act came into effect. |
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The most serious attacks took place in 1009, when a Viking army took up position over the winter period on the Isle of Wight and ravaged Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. |
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To the east were the Chilterns, where at their southern end they melted into the Berkshire Downs, save for a small gap to allow Isis through to become Old Father Thames. |
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In 1951 it moved to a new site at AWRE Aldermaston in Berkshire. |
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Ronnie, still a patient in Broadmoor hospital, died of a heart attack on 17 March 1995 at the age of 61 at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire. |
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On 3 December 1926, the Christies quarrelled, and Archie left their house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. |
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Stephen Ward introduced John Profumo, former secretary of state for war, to showgirl Christine Keeler at a bash at Lord Astor's Cliveden home in Berkshire. |
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The world's most successful stockpicker last weekend released his widely read chair's letter to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. conglomerate. |
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Berkshire County Council bore arms with two golden lions in reference to its royal patronage and the Norman kings' influence upon the early history of Berkshire. |
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When I spoke on Radio Berkshire last year about this I also spoke about the support that mums who bottle-feed require and how it is possible to bottle-feed with love. |
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As of a 1999 interview, they owned farmland in Portugal and New Zealand, 22 houses in Royal Berkshire and London, and 65 stables offering horse boarding services. |
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Herne however is a localised figure, not found outside Berkshire and the regions of the surrounding counties into which Windsor Forest once spread. |
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Between 1261 and 1300, there are at least eight references to 'Rabunhod' in various regions across England, from Berkshire in the south to York in the north. |
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About 8 percent of the hardwood trees across Massachusetts are ash trees, and 80 percent of the state's white and green ash trees are in Berkshire County. |
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Wearing a dark pinstriped suit and patterned tie at the brief hearing, he spoke only to confirm his name, his address in Bray, Berkshire, and his date of birth. |
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A road called Boole Heights in Bracknell, Berkshire is named after him. |
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In the case of Berkshire, there is no county council, as all of its former territory is now covered by six unitary authorities, unaffiliated with each other politically. |
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