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A WOODLEY breast cancer support charity is appealing for help from people who have been through the process of chemotherapy. Chemogiftbags will be marking its fifth anniversary this October, in...

DOCTORS are being urged to signpost patients to gardening and nature projects locally to help those whose mental health has suffered during lockdown. The Reading Gardening for Health and Wellbeing...

AS LOCKDOWN starts to ease and venues start to welcome visitors again, a new exhibition will be manna from heaven. Wokingham-based artist Sarah Abell is displaying some of her ceramic...

A FORMER Wokingham Borough Council has passed away. Helen Power, who served on Evendons ward, stood down in February last year, just nine months after being elected.  Announcing her decision...

Crucial to creating a calming environment, sounds are often overlooked in gardens.  But listening and focusing on the sounds of your garden can provide essential moments of mindfulness and will...

When talking about volunteering the focus usually falls on how a volunteer may help others and improve their lives or give them valuable support to deal with a particular challenge....

FINCHAMPSTEAD care home residents were treated to an afternoon concert thanks to an armed forces charity. Around 23 residents and staff from Wild Acres Care Home enjoyed an afternoon of...

Easthampstead Rotary Club’s president for the last 12 months, Terry Edney, chose Home-Start Bracknell Forest to benefit from donations by club members for their minor misdemeanours during his year in...

A HOPELESS romantic from Wokingham says online dating experts saved him from the perils of loneliness – despite spending most of lockdown 182 miles from his Norfolk-born soulmate. Farmer's son...

A WOKINGHAM mental health advocate has launched a podcast to unpick the world of overthinking. Sarah Sylvester, who runs peer-led mental health support group It’s About Time, has launched Thoughts...