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TWO WELLINGTON College students have raised more than £5,000 in a charity cycle across the Alps. Sam Hind (17) and Cosmo Smith (17) who go to the Crowthorne-based school made...

Wokingham’s mysterious cycling bear is travelling the borough once again, on a mission to help local causes. The man in the Panda suit, also named Earley Panda, began June determined...

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has substantially rocked the country and the world. We’re heading through really challenging and difficult times, and many individuals and families continue to feel the knock-on effects...

BOROUGH libraries have launched their summer reading challenge, and there’s still time to get involved. This year’s challenge, which will take place online will be celebrating funny books and hopes...

FIVE MONTHS ago, the country was told to stay home, protect the NHS, save lives. The Government imposed lockdown was met with worry from the elderly, and people with medical...

AN 83-YEAR-OLD has taken a more holistic approach to cure him of Covid-19, after putting faith in his own body. Roderick Mackie, who has been living at Suffolk Lodge care...

There are many things that can make a person feelAs if they were losing their sanity,Hallucinating, evenWatching a squirrel fly, for exampleOr finding a sledgehammer in Lidl’s random IsleFor some...

A FORMER leader of Wokingham Borough Council has died. Frank Browne was just 48. He was in charge between 2002 and 2009, stepping down not just from leadership but the...

AS THE world prepares to remember the end of the Second World War this Saturday, a Wokingham author is preparing to share the role her grandfather played in it. Cecil...

A CHARITY that helps people in Wokingham with learning disabilities is celebrating a special link-up with a supermarket this month.  CLASP Wokingham, which has been holding virtual meetings during lockdown...