Opinion

In a week when the Foreign Secretary announced a three-week extension to the lockdown, ‘Stay Home - Save Lives” remained the central message as tea-time briefings from government ministers and...

By James Sunderland When I submitted my previous article for The Wokingham Paper in March, no-one could possibly have foreseen the full extent of what would unfold since then.  Coronavirus...

For winter's rains and ruins are over,And all the season of snows and sinsThe days dividing lover and loverThe light that loses, the night that wins;And time remember'd is grief...

Cllr Tahir Maher has written a greeting to Wokingham borough residents as many start their Ramadan journey.  Here is what he has to say: This is a special time of...

SIR JOHN REDWOOD has argued, on his blog, that the lockdown should be ended urgently.  He argues that the longer we stay closed, the harder it will be to recover....

With the lack of routine and a few Bank Holidays thrown into the equation is it any wonder we don’t know where we are and are constantly wondering if it’s...

By Sarah Sylvester from Run Talk Run According to the 2017 Land Registry, one in seven of us live in flats (14%), approximately 9 million people. This figure increases as...

In a week when the official statistics on the number of Covid-19 cases is approaching 100,000 with a death toll of over 10,000, nationally the country’s unpreparedness for this pandemic...

We need to extend transition period I absolutely support the government’s mantra that we will do ‘Whatever It Takes’, which is why I’m supporting Best for Britain’s campaign to extend...

CHURCH NOTES with Pippa Bartlett from St Paul's, Wokingham I, like hundreds of others, have been livestreaming the Eucharist every Sunday from St Paul’s Wokingham’s Facebook page. On Palm Sunday,...