Health

A STAR-STUDDED campaign has seen over 400 seamstresses across the UK making scrubs for NHS workers. Scrubs Glorious Scrubs, a voluntary sewing collaborative, was set up by Lynda Yong, an...

A SCHOOL PPE initiative has created new measures to ensure protective visors can continue to be made. Leighton Park’s face shield hub — consisting of 22 schools — has created...

CARE HOME staff have expressed their gratitude after teachers across the borough have been working non-stop to make and donate hundreds of protective face shields. RMBI Care Co. Home at...

The Wokingham Paper's coverage of the coronavirus pandemic has been hailed as some of the best in Britain.

The temporary mobile testing unit will be set up in Easthampstead House car park today until Wednesday, May 6, running tests between 10.30am and 4.30pm.

A WOKINGHAM-based firm is doing its bit during the Covid-19 pandemic by helping companies making medical equipment.  PRISYM ID, based in Oaklands Park, offers a labelling platform that includes a...

NEW HOMESCHOOLING resources are promising to stink-up science lessons. Thames Water has launched try-at-home experiments to teach children about water and waste services in an interactive way. Its education team...

A Wokingham piper is saluting all key workers in a rather special way during Clap for Carers.  Dressed head to toe in uniform, Pipe Major Ron Paterson honours frontline staff...

A Virtual Origami Club is being run by Wokingham Borough Libraries to help keep children busy during lockdown. Every week, youngsters are practicing the Japanese art of paper folding, creating...

ONE thing that a Winnersh man didn’t expect when the coronavirus lockdown was announced was to become a zookeeper.  Every day, Christopher Elvin can be spotted taking one of his...