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This week marks the end of a very long summer holiday. It’s now been seven months since I sat in a classroom, instead of the usual eight or so weeks...

Reading Women fell to defeat on the opening day of the 2020/21 Women's Super League season to Arsenal as Jill Roord netted a hat-trick in a six goal thrashing. Arsenal's...

THIS WEEK, the issues at stake are pressing and involve every one of us. You may have noticed the government’s misguided and woeful white paper on planning – housing numbers...

Why we should lustily sing Rule, Britannia I note, with interest, the objections to our singing patriotic songs – such as Land of Hope and Glory, and Rule, Britannia. I...

If Robert Jenrick’s planning reforms launched in early August have taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t trust Government Ministers with anything complicated or difficult. His technical consultation contains an...

By Cllr Sarah Kerr When it comes to tackling both climate change and air pollution, it’s important to be pragmatic, particularly when you’re a local authority.  There is a lot...

Hard to believe that the house is now in a routine of sorts thanks to the return to school. I always feel that September is the start of something new...

A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Bracknell has pleaded guilty to driving over a level crossing, causing a train to derail in Wokingham just before Christmas last year. Claudiu Ilinca, 30 and...

AFTER establishing itself as a makeshift settlement in Winnersh, Spoonyville has been moved. The collection of spoons, painted and decorated as people, began in April as local residents got creative...

I remember well my GranddadIn the last years of the warUpright, proud, and stubbornAnd British to the core He lived downstairs, the flat belowAnd each morning I would creepAcross the...