Wokingham

IT ALL started so brightly. The first issue of 2020 was packed with everything that you would expect a local newspaper to cover: community groups meeting, pantomime magic and features...

WOKINGHAM Volunteer Centre is offering residents the chance to help in an historic event: it is currently recruiting a team of vaccine marshals to lend a hand with the rollout...

THE CASE at Willow Bank Infants School set the tone for March. Although there had only been 85 cases confirmed in the UK by the time our March 5 issue...

THE FIRST mention of Covid-19 in our pages came on February 6, 2020 with a front-page headline that showed how new it was: Coronavirus was split into two words with...

A NUMBER of borough residents have been named in the New Year Honours list for 2021, recognising their work for charity and the country. Across the Commonwealth, 1,239 people have...

Berkshire primary schools will be returning from Monday, January 4, but secondary schools will be delayed until week commencing January 18 in a bid to prepare for mass coronavirus testing...

SIR JOHN REDWOOD abstained on the Brexit trade deal after sharing his ‘worries’ over fishing rights and Northern Ireland.   The Wokingham MP spoke during the House of Common debate...

SECONDARY schools in Wokingham borough will have their reopening delayed to January 18 for most pupils according to new advice issued by Gavin Williamson earlier today. Speaking to the House...

A fruit and vegetable wholesaler has joined forces with a produce-growing charity to feed the homeless and vulnerable this winter. Lower Earley-based C.A Belcher & Son and Winnersh-based Freely Fruity...

It might not have been a white Christmas, but there could be the right conditions to see in New Year with some snow. It is exceedingly difficult to forecast in...