Opinion

Families, don’t you just love them! If there is any encouragement from the recent news about the Royal family it that no family is immune to difficulties, fall outs and...

In January last year I was the focus of a Wokingham Paper article when I resigned as Wokingham Borough Evendons Ward councillor due to an incurable Cancer diagnosis and this...

THE draft Transport for the South East Transport Strategy is not only a mouthful, but a host of wishful thinking. Until someone invents the teleport, we need transport and a...

Happy New Year to all the readers of Church Notes. New Year’s Day – January 1 – saw the start of a new venture for the Churches in Wokingham. Seven...

There were few positive conclusions to draw from last week’s commentary “Falling on a cold street” after the all too preventable death of a 47-year-old lady in South Wales in...

January Vandalism was to prove to be one of the defining factors throughout 2019 as the new season started with the Wokingham town centre Christmas tree being wrecked, car windscreens...

I would like to wish all readers of The Wokingham Paper a very Merry Christmas. Christmas is a magical time. A time that brings people together and a time to...

I love Christmas. I like the turkey and the pudding, the tinsel and the trees, the carols and the stories, the pleasure of giving and receiving. Best of all is...

THE festive rush is almost over for another year. Wokingham borough’s Christmas season is always a busy time. It starts in mid-November with the light switch-ons, it continues through to...

This week’s commentary takes a mixed look at the General Election, the campaigns, results and reasons - particularly in the light of the ‘surprise result’. Working out the reasons was...