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The political divide is in evidence once again as the traditional Boxing Day confrontation between pro- and anti-hunt campaigners provides an excuse for each side to rejoice and indulge in some old-fashioned festive fisticuffs.Anneliese Dodds mounts...

#rdgnews - A veritable blizzard of reactions has tumbled out of the ether in response to the effects of the past few days winter weather.Plenty of criticism has been laid at the door of authorities for an apparent lack of preparation, the failure to...

#rdgnews - Beleaguered football club manager Brendan Rodgers has left his position 'by mutual consent' and 'with immediate effect' after less than half a season.The team is floundering just one place above the relegation zone and with the worst home...

#pbr - In the Pre-Budget Report this week, Chancellor Alistair Darling produced the seemingly magical rabbit from a hat as he announced 'efficiency savings that would not hurt frontline services'.Alan Travis reports that it is politicaly unpalatable...

Former Mayor of Reading and Freeman of the borough Bob Green has died aged 72 - and local sources have been quick to mark the passing of the well-known and respected veteran politician with tributes in inimitable indivudula style.Reading Borough Coun...

#rdgnews - It's six months now since the last time I reported on the levels of enquiries each of Reading's 46 councillors make on behalf of the public, so it's about time that I followed up.Redlands' Cllr Glenn Goodall was the first to publish the mo...

Tree planting is an practical and fun way to demonstrate commitment to a cause. Recently politicians of all colours have been making the journey down to Sipson to plant trees on the Airplot as part of efforts to physically block the construction o...

Domestic violence has been the cause of some renewed concern this week. Paul Robins reported on the case of a husband who has been jailed to 5-weeks imprisonment. Southcote's James Hendry beat his charity worker wife of 21 years for regularly provi...

The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence came to town to deliver a keynote speech at a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the 'Reading Declaration on race equality' earlier this week.The conference brought together original signatorie...

It's always causes a stir of excitement when TV provides a forum for recognisable public figures to go head-to-head in confrontation.Although this week's event was no competition for the recent controversy caused by the appearance of BNP leader Nick...

Adrian Windisch noted the 'World Vegan Day' on November 1st was a day for raising awareness of 'ethical and environmentally-friendly' food issues. He argues: "Vegan farming can help to overcome world hunger by helping Global Food Security; help...

Reading East MP, Rob Wilson (Conservative) is facing an increasing barrage of criticism after he issued a press release prematurely claiming credit for the community campaign to save a local pub.Local media outlets picked up the announcement and publ...

A massive bid for funding to help improve local transport could be threatened by a political row.Reading Borough Council applied for £300m from the national Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) to sort out long-standing infrastructure issues and help red...

18th October 2009 offically marked the 204th anniversary of the defeat of the Napoleon fleet. Trafalgar Day is a traditional point of the year for the British to celebrate the defeat of dictatorship and tyrrany in the defence of our traditional liber...

A new initiative has got underway to help resolve some of the problems caused by street revellers who overdo the party atmosphere.Street Pastors are an inter-denominational group made up of members from 11 local evangelical churches who take their re...

The bad news just continues coming for Reading Buses.The company has declared that fuel prices are forcing them to convert their much-heralded eco-friendly buses from bio-ethanol to the less friendly bio-diesel in order to make £1/4m savings.But thi...

The news that Reading University has decided to withdraw support for local patrols has been hitting the headlines and sparked a strong response.BBC Radio Berkshire's Andrew Peach covered the story in his morning breakfast show (first 15 minutes), int...

Local campaigners have won a second victory against large-scale developments within a week as the plans for the development of the Bath Rd reservoir site were unanimously rejected by RBC.Over 400 letters from the public and a petition with 1,400 sign...

Sometimes international discussions can feel very distant from our everyday lives. At other times they are right on our doorstep.With talks in Geneva reaching agreement to grant UN inspectors access to the Fordu facility in Iran as part of President...

Non-partisan local blogger Gideon Mack has launched a furious attack on Reading West MP Martin Salter for having "exaggerated an incident to the point of lying".He accuses the parliamentary representative of a cheap and offensive attempt at...

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