Politics

THE NEW mayor of Wokingham Borough Council, Cllr Bill Soane, said that his charity of the year would be Crowthorne-based Debra. In his first speech as mayor, the Woodley-based councillor...

OUTGOING Wokingham Borough Mayor Cllr John Kaiser praised residents for their support during his past municipal year as they helped him raise more than £24,000 for charity. In his closing...

Two of the Brexit Party's hopefuls in Thursday's European Elections visited Wokingham's town centre on Saturday to meet and greet voters ahead of the polls. Binfield-based Peter Wiltshire and fourth-placed Belinda...

A EUROPEAN Election candidate believes that no Brexit scenario will benefit the UK. Richard Ashworth, who is standing for the new Remain-backing party Change UK made the warning in a...

A public meeting featuring several South East candidates in the European Elections will take place in Earley on Monday, May 20. The Van Emden Theatre in the Edith Morley Building...

THE local candidate for the Brexit Party will be taking part in a meet and greet session in Wokingham’s town centre on Saturday. It follows a similar event a couple...

A MOVE to deselect one of the borough’s four MPs has been blasted as “a threat to our democracy”. Dr Phillip Lee has said that he will not attend an...

THURSDAY, May 2 was a momentous day for Wokingham. We hesitate to use the word seismic, but had we been electing all of its borough councillors in one fell swoop...

THE FORMER leader of the Liberal Democrats has praised the Wokingham borough branch for their electoral success last week. In the local elections, the party doubled its borough council representation...

THE NEWLY elected independent councillor for Shinfield South said that he is humbled by the scale of his victory. Cllr Jim Frewin beat the incumbent – and Executive member for...