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LOCKDOWN was the new normal for the country as stay at home became a fact of life. Pupils remained off school and it seemed quite jolly despite the increasing spread...

THE INCREASE in coronavirus cases has meant that the Royal Berkshire Hospital is pausing non-urgent operations for the next fortnight, apart from cancer, urgent care and endoscopy procedures.  Only the...

THE UK has reported another record high for positive coronavirus tests as rates surge across England. And the rate per 100,000 people in Wokingham borough has also reached a new...

THE GOVERNMENT needs to do more to support small businesses and the fitness industry, which have both needed to close as a result of the new Tier 4 restrictions.  Bracknell...

Crowds used to cheering on traditional mummers’ plays with St George, a Turkish Knight and a dragon in combat outside a pub can still enjoy the fun despite Covid rules,...

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...

NOT EVEN a Fairy Godmother can help: – the government’s latest review of the Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions means that theatres must remain closed and that includes the Theatre Royal...

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...

THERE has been a slight fall in the daily number of positive tests for coronavirus recorded in Wokingham borough, but there has been no change to the Tier 4 restrictions...