Opinion

Would you take a tip that wasn’t yours? I had just had a meal with my family, at a local Finchampstead Pub, when my husband, as usual left a tip...

This week the government announced a 5% rise in the National Living Wage to £8.21 an hour. The Minimum Wage for younger employees aged between 21 and 24 years was...

AN ELECTION leaflet is being circulated in Shinfield that touches on one of the biggest issues between now and May 2: housing numbers. We all know that Wokingham has taken...

I love this time of year. Constantly being surrounded by new life; spring flowers, little lambs, bursting buds. When you take a moment to observe, to pause, to breathe, you...

The NHS is the fifth biggest employer in the world. It employs 1.7 million staff (with the US Department of Defence employing 3.2 million, People’s Liberation Army China employing 2.3...

What do you want to be when you grow up Mummy?” It always amuses me when my five-year-old voices such queries because, while all very sweet and innocent, they’re also...

THE trouble with planning in secret is that when the secrets come out, there is anger. And residents have every right to be angry over the plans for Grazeley, Twyford...

A view on Brexit Brexit. Love it or hate it, it’s clearly not going well. I have a theory about that. It’s because it’s not the right answer, heck, it’s...

Wokingham Labour welcomes any initiative that could possibly reduce the current level of overdevelopment. This new consultation, however, is an expensive pre-election gimmick which gives the illusion of action and...

When cyclone Idai swept through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi earlier this month, it left a trail of devastation and flood waters stretching for miles. Even as I write, the final...