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Despite being an award-winning transport company the publicly-owned Reading Buses has been garnering some negative headlines as it has turned into an unwitting vicitim of the economic pressures facing the country.A six-per-cent drop in passengers has...

The battle to replace Martin Salter as MP for Reading West has taken a new twist as LibDem candidate Patrick Murray unexpectedly stood down earlier this week.According to a statement he explained that time pressures meant he was not able to effective...

The summer recess is the typical time for planners to submit controversial planning applications, and so it proved again as Thames Water subsidiary Kennet Properties applied to build 96 homes on the 5.4 acre Bath Rd Reservoir site.Meanwhile, Coley Pa...

Slough has become the latest council to sign the Nottingham Declaration in a ceremony on Monday 10th August.Slough Borough Council leader, Labour's Cllr Rob Anderson said, "We are committed to making Slough a cleaner, greener town, and part of t...

Wokingham Newsblog draws our attention to the appointment of Stephen Barber as chair of the new joint Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB).The board is the umbrella organisation which will bring together and help coordinate efforts between the...

Population pressures continue to cause concern about the level of housing stock in the area despite the recent drop-off in prices, and attention has turned to the large number of properties which stand empty for one reason or another.In densly-popula...

Wokingham Borough Council's decision to remove dog bins as a cost-cutting measure appears to have spectacularly backfired.Not only has a petition voicing public opposition to the removal of 245 bins surpassed the significant 1,000 signature mark, but...

Local bloggers have unified in their condemnation of newly selected prospective Labour candidate for Reading West Naz Sarkar after he was ambushed by Andrew Peach during an interview on local radio.Mr Sarkar betrayed his lack of local knowledge by fa...

The future of further education at Thames Valley University has been the subject of some controversy after the Board of Governors reached a decision 'in principle' to divest further education provision from it's Reading campus.A six-month review has...

With the recent heatwave comes the threat of fires.Fire Chiefs have warned that fire can strike anywhere and at any time, so it is important to be careful to avoid injury or damage to property. Fire safety does not stop at the front door, and whether...

Reading Borough Council's Corporate, Community and External Affairs (CCEA) Scrutiny Panel is due to stage it's second annual session where public concerns over the state of the railways will be raised and discussed.First Great Western Managing Direct...

Council sessions are where the different sides of the popular political debate face each other on the issues of the day, so it's not surprising that emotions often run high and opinions get heated - as can be seen by the reactions.The two areas of gr...

In an positive move Reading University has opened a new £17m facility for biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences.The building will be named after the renowned late Professor Harold H. Hopkins, who worked on the campus for 17 years and helped develop...

PaulSC at Grasp The Mettle draws our attention to an excellent blog post by Richard Cable on the BBC's Blog Of Bloom.While the changing climate is a constant, it is also pointed out that the world authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel...

Reading's own French bus driver Jean-Louis Pascual of the Roman Party - Ave! stood in last Thursday's European elections hoping to improve on the 33 votes he gained in recent local elections.According to sources [1, 2] he gained 0.2% of the overall t...

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