RESIDENTS who have repeat prescriptions are being reminded to make sure they order their medicines in plenty of time before the festive period. Over the Christmas holidays, most pharmacies and...

A GLITTERING dinner dance took place last month to raise money for a Wokingham teenager’s new wheelchair. Liam Nazer, 15, who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, a rare genetic...

TIPS on how you can cut down on rubbish created over the Christmas period are being offered by the council. Wokingham Borough Council (WBC) is encouraging residents to try to...

AN elderly woman from Crowthorne has been conned out of money by a man posing as a tree surgeon. At around midday on Wednesday, December 7, the 89-year-old woman was...

A WOMAN from Woosehill will be starting 2017 by sporting a new look - as she shaves her head for charity. Sandra Ostridge, 53, will brave the shave on New...

MORE than 100 people took to the streets in Twyford last month to protest the potentially devastating cuts being faced by independent pharmacies. Dozens of people, many of them elderly, braved...

THE family of Lilly-May Page are no closer to receiving a conclusion over her death after a two-day inquest was adjourned last week. Lilly-May, five, collapsed from a suspected cardiac...

AN initiative to help victims of domestic abuse over the Christmas period has been launched in Wokingham. Project Shoebox, in conjunction with Berkshire Women’s Aid (BWA), aims to provide victims...

THE education of pupils in Wokingham is being put at risk by unfair funding allocations, the organisers of a new campaign have warned. Angry parents, teachers and headteachers are backing...

A PLAY within a play always poses a logistical nightmare for even the most seasoned of directors and actors. But Wokingham Theatre pulled this feat off with style with their...