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  Cow Lane takes first step to combating bottleneck

  January 27, 2012

  Monday morning motorists will be welcoming the reopening of Cow Lane after the first phase of widening work. The thoroughfare has been closed since mid December, when Network Rail started work to remove and replace the southern bridge and lay a new road under the structure. The demolition of the old narrow barrel arch at Christmas has paved the way for a two lane highway, with a cycle lane and pedestrian footpath. Work to the northern Cow Lane bridge will [...]

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  Parents Invited To Public Meetings on After School Clubs

  January 18, 2012

  Local parents are being invited to two public meetings later this month to give their views and help shape the future of after school club services for their children. Reading Borough Council fully understands just how valuable a lifeline after school clubs are for working parents who have come to rely on the provision to allow them to earn whilst ensuring their children are well cared for. However, at the present time after school clubs based at East Reading and [...]

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  Reading News – 18/01/12

  January 18, 2012

  1 – Driver killed by own Lorry A lorry driver died in a fatal collision in a service road at Apex Plaza near Reading railway station on Sunday night. The driver, a 69-year-old man from Redhill, Surrey, was out of his lorry cab coupling it to a trailer when the incident happened at 11.55pm. It is believed the lorry rolled forward while the driver was coupling the trailer to the tractor unit and that he was struck by his lorry [...]

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  Reading Landlord Fined For Failing to Keep Property in Fit State

  January 18, 2012

  A landlord is to pay £2,125 in fines and £1,815 costs to Reading Borough Council after admitting he failed to keep a property in East Reading in a fit state for tenants. Mohammed Mir, 41, of Cumberland Road, Reading, pleaded guilty to 16 offences relating to a house he owns in Eastern Avenue, which he rented out to nine tenants. Mr Mir appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court to face charges under Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006, on January [...]

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  Holocaust Memorial Event to Take Place in Town

  January 11, 2012

  An evening of reflection to remember victims of the Holocaust is to take place at the Civic Centre on January 25th. The theme for the event  asks us all to ‘Speak Up, Speak Out’. This year’s guest speaker is Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller. Freddie was born into a cultured Viennese family in 1921. When the Germans entered Austria, he fled west. He joined the French Resistance, but was betrayed to the authorities by a spurned lover. The French police handed [...]

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  More Money for Voluntary Groups in Reading

  January 11, 2012

  Voluntary and community groups across Reading are set to benefit from an increase in funding from Reading Borough Council over the coming year.. Despite the difficult economic climate, in Reading the Council plans to continue to increase money going towards the voluntary and community sector from a budgeted £12,596,403 million in the current year, to £12,637,584 in financial year 2012/13. Reading has always maintained a strong voluntary sector and the proposed increase in funding is in recognition of the significant [...]

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  Council Lodges £24.2 million Bid for ‘Green’ Transport Fund

  December 22, 2011

  On Tuesday 20th December Reading Borough Council  officially lodged its £24.2 million bid for Government money to create a series of ‘green’ transport initiatives across the town. The Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) is a £560 million Government funding pot which local authorities nationwide will bid for over the next four years. Highlights of Reading’s bid – lodged with the Department for Transport (DfT) today – include plans for a new pedestrian/ cycle bridge across the Thames, expanded Park and [...]

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  Time to Apply for a Primary School Place

  December 22, 2011

  Do you live in Reading Borough and was your child born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008? If so, you only have until Monday, January 15, to apply for a primary school for the school year beginning in September 2012. After that date, many schools will be full so you will have less chance of getting a place for your child at the school you want. You will need to apply to Reading Borough Council for any state [...]

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  Reading Borough Council’s Chief Executive To Leave Post

  December 20, 2011

  The chief executive of Reading Borough Council is to leave as part of the authority’s plans to save about £1m. Michael Coughlin said he was in talks with the council about the timing of his departure. The authority wants to combine the posts of chief executive and director of resources. It has already lost one senior manager after combining the responsibility for education, social services and housing into one directorate. The latest proposals will go before the full council for [...]

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  Station Hill Closure

  December 19, 2011

  Motorists and bus users are being given advance notice of the closure of Station Hill from January 9th onwards as Network Rail and Reading Borough Council’s work to transform Reading Station continues. The area in and around the station is subject to extensive works as Network Rail’s £850 million rebuilding programme continues, alongside the Council’s £13 million project to create much-improved interchanges for local residents and commuters to the north and the south of the station. The end result will [...]

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  Reading News – 16/12/11

  December 16, 2011

  1 – Stolen car dumped in River Thames A car was found in the River Thames near Reading Bridge on Tuesday 13th December, just after 5.10pm. The emergency services were on scene, but no one was found to be in the vehicle. The car is believed to be stolen. 2- Man charged after sword incident A 42-year-old man has been charged following an incident in Russell Street, Reading, on Thursday 8th December. Jason Sims, of Russell Street, was arrested and [...]

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  New Health Board ‘Concerned’ About Hospital Leadership

  December 13, 2011

  Reading Borough Council Leader, Jo Lovelock, has raised concerns about the future management and leadership of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. The move reflects views expressed by representatives from the local Clinical Commissioning Groups, the Primary Care Trust and the Director of Public Health at a meeting of Reading’s ‘shadow’ Health and Wellbeing Board. In a letter to the Chair of the Trust, Mr Colin Maclean, Councillor Lovelock said recent announcements about the future leadership of the Trust have [...]

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