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Heather Boncey won this month’s short story contest, organised by the Wokingham Writers’ Group. We are pleased to present it here for your enjoyment I was so excited I couldn’t...

What could be tastier than delicious juicy fruit picked straight from your garden? Squire’s Garden Centres says it has seen a big increase in the number of people wanting to...

Hurst Morris People have rediscovered the joy of practising their dancing for real with their fellow dancers and musicians. It’s more than a year since covid meant the end of...

Serves 4 as a side This is a delicious way to prepare an array of seasonal greens. Perhaps unusual to find lettuce and peas on a barbecue but once tried...

A SHINFIELD girl has donated her locks to charity, after going for a 15in chop. Lucy Boardman, 10, donated 16 locks of hair following her cut at Z&Co Hair and...

A READING kidney doctor has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’ Birthday Honours. Dr Emma Vaux, consultant nephrologist and GP at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust was recognised...

Wokingham resident Heather King has put heartbreak into words with her new poetry anthology, Love Lost.

CYCLISTS will be hopping on to their bikes for this year’s wheelie-good bike ride event as the Three Counties Cycle Ride returns. The Rotary Club of Easthampstead is hosting its...

This weekend, a borough champion is hoping to raise money in memory of her nephew. Vickie Robertson, founder of domestic abuse charity Kaleidoscopic UK, will be running the Brighton Half...

REMINISCING ON lockdown in the countryside, a Wokingham football commentator has published his first book, Jessica and the Neighbour. Phil Blacker, originally from Yorkshire, has written a children’s story inspired...