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RESIDENTS across the borough in need of more bin bags can now pre-order them to collect soon. The system applies to blue household and -brown garden waste bags. It costs...

A BOROUGH MP is calling for the Prisons Minister to reconsider the decision to turn Reading Gaol into luxury flats after a new report was published. Earlier this year, heritage...

MOTORISTS are being warned that the M4 will be closed from 8pm this evening (Friday, August 14) through to 6am on Monday, August 17, to allow for a new bridge...

A PLAN to build 57 new homes in Sonning, as part of a “retirement village”, have been panned by the former prime minister. Theresa May, who lives in the village,...

ALL STUDENTS at Leighton Park School received at least a pass in their A-levels – 69% of them achieved A*-B grades, while 17.4% of the grades were A*, almost double...

READING SCHOOL said that its 171 students are celebrating a “fine set” of A-level results.  In all, 91% of grades were A*-B, with 35.8% at A* and 73.3% at A*-A....

Tributes are being paid today to a stalwart of the airwaves.  Eddie Winship has championed local community radio for many years, and presented a Community Matters programme for Reading College's...

“I feel really proud that he saw the problem and wanted to do something about it. But I feel thoroughly depressed that we live somewhere that requires so much clearing...

Cllr Halsall said that the current coronavirus situation saw his team take their eye off the ball.

SIXTH FORMERS returned to Waingels College today for the first time since lockdown – not for lessons, but to collect their A-levels and BTEC results.  The socially distanced pupils met...