Cameron Blackshaw

Hey there! I am a fully-qualified senior reporter with a passion for news, journalism and storytelling and expertise in reporting for both print and digital news platforms. I have years of experience reporting regional news, maintaining strong contacts and sourcing breaking and insightful stories, as well as constructing long form features, video pieces and social media content.

Newbury Today • November 14 2024

Post Office to remain open after being incorrectly named on national branch closure list

A Newbury Post Office will not close after a petition to save it gained almost 800 signatures in a single day when it was incorrectly listed by news outlets as being at risk of being shut down. It was announced yesterday (Wednesday) that up to 115 Post Office branches across the country could be shut down, leaving around 1,000 jobs at risk and several communities without access to postal services.

Newbury Today • June 27 2024

Former PM Theresa May visits Newbury to endorse Laura Farris

Former Prime Minister Theresa May visited Newbury today (Thursday) to endorse the Conservative candidate Laura Farris ahead of next week’s General Election.cMrs May arrived in the town centre at 11.30am and spent an hour on the bridge over the canal on Northbrook Street meeting Tory supporters, chatting to passers-by and offering her support to Mrs Farris.

Newbury Weekly News • February 29 2024

Runners for New Life have a common goal

Greenham Common was filled with runners, volunteers and spectators at the weekend who came together to take part in the first-ever Greenham Common Half Marathon and 10K Event. On Sunday morning, 500 runners – including myself and several friends – took to the muddy fields and paths of the historic common land to race against one another and raise vital money for an important local charity.

Newbury Weekly News • February 1 2024

Man donates late wife’s collection of 2,000 Puffin story books to museum

A Newbury man has decided to donate his late wife’s remarkable collection of 2,000 Puffin story books to a children’s museum. Paul High, an 81-year-old retired teacher who lives in Porchester Road, will give every single book – ranging from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson – to The Story Museum in Oxford next month.

Newbury Today • January 31 2024

Large 270-home community will be built just outside Newbury after successful appeal

Controversial plans to build a large 270-home community just south of Newbury have been given the green light after a successful appeal. The new residential development – which is called Watermill Bridge – will be located just south of the county border in Hampshire, on a patch of land between the A34 and Andover Road.

Newbury Today • October 3 2023

Man denies New Year’s Eve rape after night out clubbing in Newbury

A man raped a woman after a New Year’s Eve night out in Newbury a jury has heard. However Oliver Pearless, of Berkeley Road, denies one count of rape which allegedly occurred during the early hours of New Years Day in 2020.

Newbury Today • September 14 2023

‘Newbury is a great shopping centre’ – business owners feeling positive despite closures

Town centre business owners are feeling positive about Newbury’s retail future despite the upcoming closures of high street staples Wilko and Superdrug. The two national retailers are set to vacate their Northbrook Street premises in the coming months, leaving two key units empty.

Out & About • September 8 2022

Meet the real Batman

Did you know there are at least 200 bats from 11 different species living in the woodland around Greenham Common? These are just some of the findings of this ambitious project run by the Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire Bat Group.

Newbury Today • July 21 2022

Thatcham drummer's band share Truck stage with Kasabian

Indie rockers CARSICK open the Main Stage today having won through from 3,786 hopefuls. ‘It will be insane’ drummer Jack Hardiman tells Cameron Blackshaw. "We’re sharing the stage with Kasabian. I can’t quite compute it."

Newbury Today • July 13 2022

Disabled pensioner hijacks digger in protest

A disabled pensioner hijacked a digger and refused to leave for nearly four hours in protest against the actions of his parish council. Lea Awbery, 66, decided he had to take action on Monday when he saw contractors digging up the roots of nearby cherry trees while re-surfacing the children’s play area on the corner of Burghfield Common’s Recreation Ground.