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At last, Crowthorne’s very own charity shop, COATS, opened its doors again last Thursday, after many weeks of lockdown. It was raining quite a bit, but well before opening time...

Inner Wheel is one of the largest female voluntary organisations in the world with clubs in 102 countries. It was founded in Manchester in the 1920s by a group of...

WOKINGHAM-BASED Professor Nick Long has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Frankland Award. Teaching at Imperial College London, Professor Long won the award for outstanding synthetic...

Our series of lockdown fiction based in the theme of isolation continues, courtesy of Linda Fawke from the Wokingham Writers Group, based at Wokingham Library. For more information, email heather.dyson@wokingham.gov.uk...

Let me die dancing Dear Lord, let me die dancingLet my feet not touch the floorLet me go while I’m still livingAnd not waiting at death’s door Let me roam...

THERE was a double reason for the team running The Grub Club to be happy last week – they had special visitors and a special giveaway. The scheme, run from...

A PET care company has warned “we could be facing one of the worst flea and tick seasons for years”. Aurelie Gayraud, from Bob Martin, said that lockdown has provided...

ALMOST 200 neighbours across Wokingham will be toasting the weekend after learning that they are to share £3 million.  They are all players of the People’s Postcode Lottery and earlier...

Love is being spread across the borough by a team of charitable residents, stitch by stitch. Members of the local crochet group Barkham Hookers have joined forces in an effort...

Following a successful tour of the Ormonde Road allotments on Sunday, Wokingham Town  Mayor and Mayoress -  Tony and Claire Lack - returned on Monday to meet committee members of...