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I am now 32 weeks pregnant. And I feel it. I feel it when I sit, stand, or try and go on a walk longer than my bladder will permit....

HE’S the pastor who climbed up a staircase and came down a mountain. Every day over the space of a month, aided by his daughter, Shinfield Baptist Church’s Nathan Hunt...

Our windows have been filled with children’s cheering and colourful paintings during the virus pandemic. In this week’s quiz you are looking for the name of the colour which will...

Margaret Barbara Balaam sadly passed away on April 7, 2020. Margaret served on the committees of numerous organizations, including Wokingham In Need, Wokingham Rotary, Satellite Club of Wokingham and was...

A WOKINGHAM couple who have their very own tales from the riverbank have just celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary. On June 10, 1950, John and Sybil Bird married at St...

Most schoolchildren would rejoice at no lessons for 12 weeks, but for 11-year-old Kanak Mathur lockdown has been a chance to learn more things and work on more projects than...

When Vera sang that famous songBack in those war-time yearsNot knowing we’d be singing itTo help us through Corona fears ‘We’ll Meet Again’ she sang‘Don’t know where, don’t know when’And...

An online community project culminates on Monday with the release of an animated video inspired by local people’s experiences of lockdown. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead launched...

WHEN the first Wokingham Pride event takes place, the leader of the borough council has pledged to attend the march to show his support.  Cllr John Halsall was answering a...

QUICK action was needed by one of the borough’s care organisations to ensure it could look after its residents during the pandemic. Optalis, which is partially owned by Wokingham Borough...