Politics

THE NEW budget, which sees council tax rise 5.49%, is “a realistic one that addresses our challenges, invests in our residents while making us fit for the future”. That’s the...

A QUESTION about glass recycling caused a wild rumpus in the council chamber when Wokingham Borough Council met on Thursday, February 22. Resident David Hare wanted to know when the...

THE PLACING of the borough’s public notices in publications other than The Wokingham Paper was raised by Cllr Prue Bray during the Executive meeting of Wokingham Borough Council, held on...

THE AMOUNT of money in the council’s piggy bank has reduced by almost £3 million over the past financial year. The figure was revealed in an answer to a question...

THE EUROPEAN UNION was blamed for the time taken over a consultation for the new 12 bus route in Woodley. In the council meeting, Jenny Cheng, a Woodley town councillor,...

CAMPAIGNERS fighting an ambitious plan to build a park and ride and a single track bus lane over an historic part of the River Thames have accused Wokingham Borough Council...

WOKINGHAM Conservatives welcomed a special guest for the first meeting of the year for their lunch club. Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was recently spotted handed over a petition to Number 10...

WOKINGHAM residents will face a council tax rise of 5.49% plus the parish council precepts, which could add as much as £106.71 to the bill. The overall rise, announced at...

RESIDENTS will be invited to join a new cross party group designed to look at Wokingham’s traffic woes. The new cross-party panel will be set up in result of a...

John Redwood, one of the borough's four MPs has been accused of losing the plot following a blog post on the Bayeux Tapestry, which then became a series of messages...