Politics

Thursday’s full council meeting will continue to be a hybrid format, despite the government relaxing rules on indoor gatherings. During the pandemic, Wokingham Borough Council has organised virtual meetings which...

Towards the Local Plan By Cllr John Halsall In last week’s column, I explained that the Council has a requirement to produce a new Local Plan to decide where new...

ONE OF the borough’s MPs has asked the health secretary what evidence he has used to drop covid restrictions on Monday. James Sunderland, whose Bracknell constituency includes Crowthorne, Wokingham Without...

WOKINGHAM borough's young people made their voices heard at the first Youth Council meeting last week. On Tuesday, July 6, the new group held its inaugural meeting with a welcome...

THERE is no chance of Wokingham Borough Council following neighbouring Slough into halting all non-essential spending according to leader John Halsall. On Friday, July 2, Slough Borough Council announced it...

By Matt Rodda, MP for Reading East One of the issues which, rightly, most exercises parliament continues to be the inadequate response from Government to the tragedy that happened at...

BRACKNELL’S MP is calling for a dog DNA database to tackle rising pet theft across Berkshire. James Sunderland is supporting plans for a new law, which was introduced in parliament...

By Cllr Jim Frewin AS PART of modern day life in the UK, we have come to expect that we get clean water from taps and that our waste can...

Part one in a series on the Local Plan by Cllr John Halsall “People are struggling to afford good homes in in the right location: house prices are too high...

ON MONDAY, June 28, one of the borough’s MPs raised his concerns about whole classes of pupils having to go into self-isolation after a positive covid case. James Sunderland, whose...