It’s not just the pupils who have been returning to one Newbury school this month. The nature reserve at St Bartholomew’s School, in Buckingham Road, is brimming with wildlife as we enter autumn – with one visitor in particular proving very popular with the students. Socks the fox has been spotted, with his mate and two cubs, for several months now and the school’s sustainability lead, Anna Barrett, has been following one of his stranger habits very closely. If you live near the school and have lost a shoe – or two – in recent times, the chances are it could be in the nature reserve. The shoe …
