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FIREFIGHTERs will be staging a dramatic rescue of someone trapped in a tower crane in Wokingham town centre. The training exercise taking place tomorrow afternoon will be held on a building site...

WITH the closure of Carnival Pool’s car park just around the corner, arrangements are being put in place to provide customers with alternative parking. The car park will close on...

TWO homes in Wokingham have been closed by the police for anti-social behaviour in a partnership operation with a housing association and the borough council. Reading Magistrate’s Court granted Thames...

BRACKNELL BEES are celebrating a big victory after the committee working to keep the club in existence was granted the operating licence. The team is now a step closer to...

A new approach to grass cutting on the borough’s roads is in its early days, according to the council. Residents have been expressing their concerns over the new policy, which...

A ROW over misplaced bed linen has come to the forefront this week with one Wokingham resident threatening to take a dry cleaning chain to court. Jean Jones, of Wiltshire...

FEARS that a new footbridge is to be a blot on the landscape of Wokingham have been quashed by the people that built it. A reader contacted The Wokingham Paper...

A MAN was pulled from his car, tied up and threatened with a knife in Wokingham town centre last week. At around 2.30am on Thursday, May 26, a 30-year-old man...

A COUPLE who live in Sonning were given an honour by the Pope earlier this week. The medals were given by Pope Francis to promote the work of Scholas Occurrentes...

Members of a local choir have just returned from the trip of a lifetime - singing in one of the world's most renowned musical halls and taking part in a...