You might have noticed that Wokingham isn’t quite as nice a place to live as it was. Our main roads are so jammed that getting to work now wastes even...

The vote-quakes in last month’s local elections were the biggest upheaval in Wokingham politics in living memory. Losing over half the seats they contested last month, the Conservatives seem to...

Two levels, two votes, two “results” - it’d be easy to mix them up. Nationally, the aftershocks from the Tory induced vote-quakes haven’t ended. Locally, they’ve only just begun. The...

The UK’s not for collapsing. We’re made of sterner stuff with, just maybe, one or two politicians capable of ‘satespersonlike’ behaviour. Occasionally. If ‘satespersonlike’ doesn’t look right, so think ‘statesmanlike’,...

Studying the numbers for the 2019 Borough elections and, while the Conservatives may be down, they aren’t out if they’ve the capacity and energy to adapt. Despite an astounding campaign...

Yes – last Thursday the voters went to the polling stations to tell the parties ‘what’s what’ and ‘which way is up’ and this is the post-mortem on how well...

The first May bank holiday weekend of 2019 saw the arrival of the Henley Arts Trail. We’ve covered many of the venues located in Wokingham Borough and as ever, the...

According to a post on the Winnersh Community Facebook page last Thursday morning, there was good news. Highways England had decided to give everyone a bank holiday break from the...

Columnist Tony Johnson looks back at what happened in Wokingham borough during 2018, as seen through The Wokingham Paper's coverage January If change were the only constant in life, then...

For some reason the November Borough Council meeting has the oddest content of the year. Whether it’s the prospect of three months until the next meeting, the idea that this...