Wokingham

Blackhall Studios hope to bring major Hollywood film productions to the UK and create up to 3,000 new jobs in Wokingham and Reading, including around 1,500 employed at the studio.

WARGRAVE booked their place in the Berks & Bucks Intermediate Cup Final as they progressed past Aylesbury Vale Dynamos in difficult conditions. In a weekend full of postponed fixtures due...

HOLLYWOOD could be coming to Shinfield if a joint venture between a major film studio and the University of Reading goes ahead.  Under the proposals, space would be leased at...

A PUBLIC meeting will be held tomorrow over plans to build a gravel pit in Spencers Wood. RAGE – Residents Against Gravel Extraction – is hoping that villagers flock to...

FLOODWATERS across the borough are starting to recede, but with heavy rain forecast for this evening and later this week, they could rise again. Yesterday, motorists faced a day of...

IT’S BEEN closed for more than a year, but with the regeneration of Wokingham continuing, new owners are seeing a bright future for a town centre pub.  Reopening next month,...

AN ESTATE agent with branches across Wokingham borough is aiming to raise £100,000 to help Age UK over the course of the year.  Using its 30-strong branch network, Romans is...

Winnersh has been flooded after heavy rainfall from Storm Dennis saw the River Loddon burst its banks. In an eventful day, traffic has been at a standstill as much of...

A CINEMA currently underwater is showing the film Underwater. The Showcase Cinema at Winnersh has the movie on its schedule on the day that its car park flooded. Heavy rain...

A PENSIONER and her accomplice stole enough money from their workplace to fund a luxury riverside apartment, cars and exotic holidays.  On Monday, February 17, Reading Crown Court sentenced them...