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NEW GUIDES have been launched to provide help to families struggling during lockdown. A group of leading local health and social care organisations have teamed up to create free downloadable...

At the moment it seems to be quite hard to remember life Before.  Life before lockdown in my own home.  Life before the weekly Zoom quizzes with friends and family. ...

THE spread of coronavirus through care homes has been at the forefront of national news this week. The accurate reporting of Covid-19 deaths in care homes is complex. The ONS...

Skills learnt in school are never forgotten I recall, from some time ago, a Wokingham Paper reader, who was campaigning for extra funding, for Wokingham’s schools, and who stated, in...

It’s not something I ever pictured: being housebound during pregnancy. But I’m embracing the unique situation, as best I can, just like every other human at the moment. We’re all...

In a week when the Foreign Secretary announced a three-week extension to the lockdown, ‘Stay Home - Save Lives” remained the central message as tea-time briefings from government ministers and...

It’s good for the body and soul, and with the warm weather here, there’s no better time to be in the great outdoors Gardening is well known to be good...

IN NORMAL times, schoolchildren everywhere have often promised the teacher that the dog definitely ate their homework. But in these home-schooling days, pooches seem to be getting more elaborate with...

A NEW charity created by three men in Lower Earley spiralled from planting fruit trees to aiming to feed the borough. Freely Fruity began with the idea to grow the...

A KILN Green resident is urging the Prime Minister to award NHS workers with medals for their work tackling coronavirus. Simon Chapman has called on Boris Johnson to grant an...