Blog Posts - Oranjepan Says

Following on from yesterday's 'Then & Now' post, here is RBC's own video from last Thursday's election and the count held at the Rivermead Centre.   Oranjepan says: Beyond the significant changes to the role and responsibility of local cou...

Reading Borough Council's local election campaign exploded into controversy this week as accusations and counter-accusations exposed the political divisions between the parties. Following the deselection of sitting Conservative councillor, Jamie Cha...

Local charity Red Balloon has teamed up with new celebrity patron Danyl Johnson to help promote a 'Black & White' charity fund-raising ball.  The event will take place  from 7-11.30pm on Saturday 17th March at Shehnai Banqueting Suites, 75-77...

#rdgnews - Reading's Labour party bosses have admitted they were 'forced' to reveal their plans to eliminate senior management posts in a £1m savings drive earlier than required. Cllr Jo Lovelock described her 'embarrassment' at discovering the 'le...

#RdgNews - Reading Conservative Group have elected a new frontbench leadership team. New Leader, Cllr Harris Church Ward's Cllr Tim Harris was elected unopposed as the new leader, replacing Cllr Andrew Cumpsty. In a deliberate show of unity he wa...

#rdgpol - Controversial Katesgrove Councillor Warren Swaine has had his party membership reinstated after a drawn-out suspension lasting six months. At a 2 1/2 hour hearing in front of LibDem officials in Basingstoke last Tursday he was asked to pro...

West Berkshire Council has promised to intervene despite not being legally responsible for the care of residents in three homes put at risk by the collapse of the country's largest private care home operator Southern Cross. However, after receivi...

An outside review into the lack of accountability surrounding Reading's management of so-called 'planning gain' funds have confirmed that at least £325,000 was 'mis-allocated' over a period of 4 years. Investigators from neighbouring Wokingham Boro...

Politics came to the streets of Reading last weekend as the proto-racial English Defence League staged a march from Reading Station to rally outside the Old Town Hall. Participants explained they were stating their opposition to the 'Islamification...

Events in Libya and Japan have caused Berkshire commentators to broach questions about the future of energy generation. Across the spectrum Eco-libertarian Robin Smith sets out the main groupings and attempts to position a safe nuclear option at t...

#ReadingFC - 755 down, only 4 clubs remaining. But the Royals won't be among them after suffering elimination. A tight fought contest saw Reading come away from Eastlands with a narrow defeat at the hands of globetrotting billionaires Manchester Cit...

The war over words which broke out this week between the political parties has suddenly increased in intensity. Reading Post reports on an exchange of emails between the three party leaders stemming from a remark which a leading Labour representati...

Partisan vitriol and hyperbole is run-of-the-mill stuff in politics, and it's one of the main reasons why our elected officials are generally held in such low esteem. With the emergence of numerous social media networks the motive to get your voice...

The demands on housing in Berkshire continues to cause pressure for families, but it also threatens to open up a major divide between members of the Conservative and LibDem coalition partnership. In a pair of personal posts Bracknell's Darren Bridge...

RBC Cabinet member, LibDem Cllr Warren Swaine, has resigned as the Lead Councillor for Environment and Sustainability. He will be replaced in this role by Cllr Kirsten Bayes. Cllr Richard Willis is saddened at the announcement, and notes that the re...

As coalition efforts to reduce spending and balance budgets continue to take hold their representatives seem to have hit gold in discovering untapped mines of waste. Accusations of a 'secret subsidy' given to local Trade Unions under the previous La...

The first six-monthly update of the King's Meadow Campaign has brought home the difficulties in returning the Edwardian Lido back into use for the first time since 1974.Efforts at raising the estimated £2.5m funding required have been slow, accordin...

#rdgpol - Nearly 10m people tuned in to watch the 'historic' first ever UK leadership election debate, so a sample from the local blogosphere will show how it went down with the public.BBC South's political correspondent Peter Henley notes how there...

A division has opened up between the parties and candidates over a seemingly innocuous pledge to avoid resorting to 'dirty' tactics during the election campaign.Conservative and Green party candidates in the two Reading constituencies kicked off the...

The Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston has come under renewed scrutiny after it emerged construction work at the site in preparation for the new nuclear warhead assembly facility, Project Mensa, had caused pollution in Burghfield Brook.The E...

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