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ACTIVATE Learning has loaned more than 450 laptops from the Department for Education to students who have had trouble accessing technology.  The laptops are part of the Government’s drive to...

A FAMILY-owned firm making bespoke furniture has turned to modern technology to help its customers dream. Blueprint Fitted Furniture has launched a virtual showroom tour in a bid to help...

FINDING new perspectives is key to tackling the pandemic head-on, according to a local business owner. Wokingham resident Melissa Chartan launched her own company, Planted Skincare, four years ago. After...

Wokingham Writers' Group runs regular fiction writing contests for its members. Here is LINDA FAWKE’S winning entry It was an odd match. I never thought I’d be best man to...

A charity has started 2021 on the right foot, and is helping more families than ever before. This is because Dingley’s Promise, which has a setting in Wokingham, has grown...

WOMEN in the South East are feeling the pressures of the pandemic, according to UNISON. The trade union has reported that local women in key worker jobs are losing sleep...

Our Chinese friends have gone awayAnd have shut their well-used take-away.It’s not for long- just a few daysTo celebrate New Year in Chinese ways. They work so hard in their...

CHILDREN across the borough will return to school next week, as part of the prime minister’s plan to ease lockdown. Last Monday, Boris Johnson told the House of Commons he...

Sometimes you feel downhearted now you cannot do a lot.In a busy world around you, you’re the one that time forgot. Then the ‘phone’s sharp ring awakens youTo a world...

WOKINGHAM’s day centre for the elderly is appealing for volunteers to come forward. Based on Reading Road, WADE is looking for new members for its Friends of WADE fundraising committee....