Opinion

LAST WEEK’S local elections results at first glance suggest business as usual. The Conservatives are still the largest party, just four seats smaller than it had been. But actually, it...

The 2018 Borough Election campaigns came to an end on Thursday, May 3 – as over 40,000 of us went to the polling stations. Of the 18 seats up for...

With the hottest May Day holiday weekend on record since it was introduced in 1978, if anything it was verging on too warm, as thousands of us visited the various...

Following on from the comparison of Green and Labour manifestos last week and Liberal Democrat and Conservative manifestos the week before, this week gives a similar treatment to the policies...

Regeneration or degeneration? Choked roads or bold vision for the future? Next Thursday, you decide on the type of Wokingham you believe in. Make sure you vote OUR postbag over...

After last week’s comparison of Liberal Democrat and Conservative manifestos for the Wokingham Borough elections, this week shows how the Green and Labour manifestos measure up. It’s important to keep...

There’s an election brewing and it’s due on May 3. And what’s different about this election is that two of the political parties have published their policies and plans for...

Our bin men are heroes Re: “Food Waste Collections from 2019” The Wokingham Paper, February 18. Even as I write, local magpies, foxes and other scavengers are hurriedly organising protest...

IT IS always pleasing to be able to cover good news rather than bad, so it’s a pleasure to present this week’s front page story to you.   While the...

If last week’s commentary on housing showed anything, in describing the practice of ‘planning by appeal’ along with the misleading supply measurement process, it demonstrated a need for reform. But...