Politics

ENGLAND is to face new lockdown measures from this Thursday through to early December in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus.  Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the measures...

Speaking at the executive meeting, Cllr John Halsall reiterated calls for the public to follow covid-restrictions and pledged to “eliminate poverty in the borough.

The CBI is urging the Government to rethink transport and infrastructure across the South East, following a change in public transport use.

The Borough Council's debt works out at £7,60 per resident, says Cllr John Kaiser.

BRACKNELL MP James Sunderland wanted to know if Parliament had a “clear responsibility” to set the right example. He was asking the question to the leader of the House of...

THERESA MAY has called for a meaningful vote on the government’s housing plans which could see Wokingham borough forced to build 1,635 homes a year. The Maidenhead MP – and...

THE FORMER Prime Minister has expressed concern over the government’s plans to dump more than 1,600 new homes every year on Wokingham borough. Theresa May, whose Maidenhead constituency includes Sonning,...

Over the past few weeks, each of the Wokingham Borough Council political party leaders have written to this paper about a range of topics, but mostly about what each party...

“PLEASE keep your recycling dry”.  That’s the message from Wokingham Borough Council leader John Halsall as heavy rain blights the borough for the next four days.  The council has ordered...

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS have joined the chorus of disapproval over the government’s white paper. At the party’s annual conference, held virtually on Sunday, Emmbrook councillor Imogen Shepherd-Dubey was one of a...