Opinion

OUR front page story this week is of one Wokingham man who needs little introduction to many. Stan Hetherington is one of the stalwarts of our community: organiser of the...

I believe it is important to protect our local heritage and green spaces, both in Woodley, Earley and in the wider Reading and Berkshire area. I am concerned that Reading’s...

As he wishes the Spirit gives a different gift to each person (1 Corinthians 12:11) At Christmas somebody kindly gave us an Amaryllis which we enjoyed as it grew in...

I thought I would take the opportunity to send you some photos of our cat which my wife took recently. His name is Elmo. He is nine-years-old but still acts...

NEWS that the new leader of Wokingham Borough Council wants to declare a climate emergency is welcome. There can be no denying that the world is getting hotter, the polar...

Two levels, two votes, two “results” - it’d be easy to mix them up. Nationally, the aftershocks from the Tory induced vote-quakes haven’t ended. Locally, they’ve only just begun. The...

I have started a consultation on my website www.johnredwood.com about how the local Highways Authority might cut congestion, improve traffic flows and road safety by making some changes to our...

The UK’s not for collapsing. We’re made of sterner stuff with, just maybe, one or two politicians capable of ‘satespersonlike’ behaviour. Occasionally. If ‘satespersonlike’ doesn’t look right, so think ‘statesmanlike’,...

Nick Kohl, who lives on the Wokingham border, hoped to sit quietly and read his copy of The Wokingham Paper during his recent cycle tour of Jersey. It was not...

EVERY so often an issue comes along that transcends normal rules. Thursday’s European Elections is one of them. It is a poll that, by rights, we shouldn’t be holding. Wokingham...