The Wokingham Paper March 30, 2017

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By PHIL CREIGHTON news@wokinghampaper.co.uk SCHOOL crossing patrollers – affectionately known as lollipop ladies and men – have been told their roles will end in July, despite a consultation taking place until mid-April.

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According to one of the lollipop people, meetings have been held with the affected staff, where Wokingham Borough Council told them they had “run out of money” and could no longer fund the patrols, which help schoolchildren cross the road safely.

There are fears the decision is an accident waiting to happen.  Continued on page 12

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James Whitney prepared bacon butties on an outdoor barbecue as part of a special Mothering Sunday café style service for Shinfield Baptist Church Picture: Phil Creighton

MEN took over on Sunday as a local church celebrated Mothering Sunday with a special service.

Members of Shinfield Baptist Church organised a breakfast banquet, combining a bacon barbecue with a lavish selection of cold foods, cereals and preserves as part of its morning meeting.

Shinfield Parish Hall in School Green was converted into a cafe for the event, and the church’s female members were asked to enjoy the food.

The congregation was joined by a group of residents from the newlyopened Shinfield View Care Home.

They mixed with all ages for the food and songs. The church’s pastor, Nathan Hunt, gave a sermon on the theme of How God Loves Us. Towards the end of the service, the church’s children presented the women with a small bunch of flowers.

Mr Hunt said: “The Church is a family, and we need to ensure that everyone feels included and loved, because God is love.”  Shinfield Baptist Church is holding a coffee morning on Saturday from 10am, raising money for Shinfield Voluntary Car Service and Readibus.

It takes place at its Fairmead Road builders and everyone is welcome.

Catch artists’ work at Oakwood show WOODLEY and Earley Arts Group are to hold their Spring Show this weekend.

The free event starts on Friday at 10am and runs until 5pm, with a special late night viewing between 7pm and 9pm where visitors can meet the artists.

The show then continues on Saturday between 10am and 5pm.

The Show will feature paintings, prints, cards, crafts and lots more at The Oakwood Centre in Headley Road.

will be holding their first show of the year, which will be open to the public between 2.30pm and 4pm.

Teas will be available, there will be a raffle and tombola, and some items for sale and the prizegiving will be at 4pm, followed by an auction.

The club will then hold its next meeting the following day (Monday), featuring a talk by David D W Fletcher entitled Glorious Arctic Tundra, which will take place at 8pm at the Ratepayers’ Hall.

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DAFFODILS, tulips and crocuses will fill the California Ratepayers’ Hall this Sunday as the local gardening club hold their Spring Show.

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A SAW has been stolen from a building site in Wokingham.

Between Friday, March 17 and the following Monday, someone broke into the Bovis Homes Matthewsgreen

Farm development site, searched a container and stole a brand new Dewalt Alligator saw.

Anyone with any information relating to this theft should call 101.

Burger van could open in Winnersh A SPECIAL licensing committee meeting will be held at Wokingham Borough Council next month to discuss plans to open a burger van in Winnersh.

Simon Smith wants to open Dambuster Burgers, selling sausages, bacon, eggs, burgers and hot and cold drinks to customers of the HarleyDavidson store in Wokingham Road.

If successful, the stall will open Monday to Fridays from 9am to 6pm and 9am to 5pm on Saturdays. It will not open on Sundays or bank holidays.

The application will be considered at the council offices in Shute End on Monday, April 10 from 2pm.

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Watch out for Beano shortages EXCLUSIVE SHOPKEEPERS are being warned that there will be a Wokingham-wide shortage of Beanos after the popular children’s comic gained a new editor, writes Phil Creighton.

Seven-year-old Isabella Penney was given a new name – Irritating Izzy – for her week-long stint as boss of the long-running title.

For her role she had to help choose storylines for favourites such as Dennis The Menace and Minnie The Minx, pick jokes and help out with an April fools storyline that saw her Dad, Julian, roped in.

And she has been immortalised in cartoon form for the comic, which went on sale yesterday.

Mr Penney said: “She was very excited when she found out – she’s been over the moon.

“We first knew about it six weeks ago and the Beano team have been brilliant, she’s been really involved in telling jokes and choosing stories.

“Isabella is a big Beano fan. She’s been reading it and acting out stories from it.”

And the Westende pupil’s love for all things Dennis The Menace is inherited – Julian used to read The Beano and The Dandy when he was little.

For her cartoon appearance, Julian was also immortalised – Isabella was asked to send in a picture of him looking angry.

“She’s very happy to be in cartoon form,” Mr Penney said.

“There may be a shortage of Beanos in Wokingham this week as we snap up copies.”

Claire Bartlett, content editor for Beano, said: “Who better to decide what’s funny enough for the pages of Beano than the readers themselves? That’s why each week we choose one reader from thousands of entries to be the boss.

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“They also appear at the very start in a strip of their own. I’m sure all Beano fans dream of starring in their favourite comic and we’re delighted we can make those dreams come true.”

WOKINGHAM is to trial a controversial replacement system to the blue bags.

On Saturday, residents living in the Grazeley area will receive a new roll of rainbow bags designed to help pre-sort waste before it is collected.

Under the new scheme, the now traditional roll of blue bags will become more colourful with the intention that residents dispose of different types of waste in turn.

Blue bags will continue to be used for general waste that cannot be recycled.

Orange bags will be introduced for waste that should be sent up in smoke, such as nappies. Lime bags will be for food waste, while green bags will either be for cheese and onion or empty salt and vinegar crisp packets depending on how old you are – but the two cannot be put in the same bag.

Red bags will be flame retardant so that barbecues, charcoal and hot chocolate waste can be disposed in them.

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Grazeley has been chosen by council officers who blindfolded themselves and then stuck a pin in the map.

The new bags will be delivered on Saturday, April 1, before noon, with the trial expected to start shortly afterwards.

Man Woo Jeol, spokesperson for Wokingham District Council, said: “We know this sounds unbelievable, but it is. The Conservatives announced last week that the weekly bin collections will stay from 2019 and, if this trial is a outside the property by success, we will be ready to roll it 6am each day, apart from out across the district. weekends, when the trucks are “Some residents may raise their expected to arrive at 4am. Each eyebrows at the clear plastic for truck will be fitted with special confidential waste, but we don’t chimes, similar to an ice cream have any secrets here, so we think van, to let residents know of their it’ll be fine. arrival.

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And confidential waste will be placed in clear plastic bags.

Under the trial, a different coloured bag will be collected from the kerbside every day. Residents will need to have their bags placed

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Red Nose Day 2017

A CARE home in Sindlesham got in on the Comic Relief act last Friday by holding a sponsored silence.

Two chatty members of staff at Lord Harris Court, in Mole Road, took a vow of silence on Friday to help raise £300 for Red Nose Day, which distributes money to worthy causes around the UK and the rest of the world.

Billie Devereaux and Hannah Lawrence dressed up and kept schtum for the whole day, raising £270 in donations.

Activity Coordinator Billie said: “We planned lots of activities for our residents on the day, including a social morning with tea, coffee and sherry. We had a cake sale with bakes that our catering team had made especially for the event and in the evening, we opened up the bar so residents could enjoy their favourite tipple.

“We received over £270 in donations alone for our sponsored silence as nobody thought that we would be able to do it. We were really pleased with the amount and that we were able to remain silent for a whole day.”

A SPONSORED tickle took place in All Saints Primary School after the school bell rang last Friday.

Headteacher Jacqui Kearney blew the starting whistle as parents were tickled by their children, making a donation to Comic Relief for the privilege.

Much hilarity ensued.

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WAVERLEY School in Finchampstead took part in Red Nose Day and had plenty of fun at the same time.

The pupils participated in several activities for Red Nose Day including non-uniform day and tuck shop, as well as sharing lots of playground jokes and antics amongst pupils and staff.

The school raised over £200 in aid of the charity, which funds thousands of projects around the world.

YOUNGSTERS at a school in Wokingham got into the spirit of Red Nose Day by dressing up to raise money.

Pupils and staff at Keep Hatch Primary School, in Ashridge Road, came to school sporting ‘crazy hair and silly socks’ for the themed mufti day on Friday, raising £511 for Comic Relief in the process. Picture: Gemma Davidson

WHAT’S so funny? Youngsters from years 1 and 2 at Wheatfield Primary School in Winnersh enjoyed a day in their pyjamas last Friday to mark Red Nose Day – and managed to enjoy a giggle in the process Picture: Phil Creighton

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Another Conservative quits – third loss since November

By PHIL CREIGHTON – The only journalist at last week’s Council meeting news@wokinghampaper.co.uk A CONSERVATIVE councillor in Wokingham has quit the party - the second one to do so within four months - claiming that “obsessive secrecy” forced him to make the move.

But instead of going independent, he has instead joined the Liberal Democrats.

Cllr Ian Pittock, who represents Finchampstead South, sensationally crossed the council chamber at the end of the meeting, held on Thursday, March 23.

He follows Cllr Gary Cowan who resigned in November after the Council rejected the recommendations of the Independent Renumeration Panel.

And he becomes the second Liberal Democrat councillor to join the group in a month after Cllr Imogen Shepherd-DuBey won the Emmbrook seat from the Conservatives after a by-election.

In quitting, Cllr Pittock indicated that the move had been coming.

“There is no secret in the fact that I have had many differences of opinion with my own Conservative Group for some time,” he told the council chamber at the end of a long evening which had included a debate on school funding.

“There are many good Members in the Conservative Group, however, they are required to adhere to the wishes of a clique that promotes unnecessary politicisation, obsessive secrecy, playing at consultations, side-lining backbenchers, restricting the number of Council meetings, lack of financial transparency and accountability and over use of patronage provided by the allowance system to name some.”

THE council is pledging to support small companies with a new initiative announced by Cllr Alison Swaddle.

Deputising for Cllr Pauline Jorgensen, executive member for resident services, she told the chamber that new procurement regulations will be more transparent and easier for officers to follow.

“This includes … increased support for small companies to take up public contract opportunities through greater advertising of opportunities and removal of pre-qualification steps. We have already seen savings in contract cost of approximately £400,000 per annum for tenders undertaken since these new regulations were adopted.”

Regeneration going full steam ahead REGENERATION is going “full steam ahead” - that’s the pledge from Cllr Mark Ashwell, executive member of planning and regeneration, highlighting the work on the state-of-the-art multi-storey car park at Carnival Pool and work on Peach Place in Wokingham town centre.

“The one-lane closure [of Peach Street] is not working out too badly - 10 weeks to go!”

Cllr Ian Pittock with his new colleagues in the Wokingham Liberal Democrats Picture: Phil Creighton

He continued: “In addition, colleagues who know me well will tell you that I have had increasing difficulty with the EU Referendum and the fall-out from this.

“The restricted franchise, totally ignoring the 48%, placing everything in the hands of the far-right wing of the party, ignoring that this is about the 30 to 40 years future of the young, not the old; Theresa May would do well to listen to Sir John Major on this aspect.

“As we learn more about the risks and likely downsides involved with a ‘hard Brexit’ or ‘Brexit at any cost’, this is increasingly making the Charge of the Light Brigade look like a sensible, well planned and executed operation. I can no longer support a Prime Minister nor her

SRA payment promise by leader NO CONSERVATIVE councillor will receive more than one special responsibility allowance from May, after a pledge made by the leader of the council.

Cllr Baker said: “Last year, I clearly stated that I wanted to move to a position where no councillor received more than one SRA. At the time only four councillors received more than one SRA. At the annual full council meeting, I can guarantee that not a single Conservative appointment approved will receive more than a single SRA.” At the November council

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party that is taking this dogmatic approach.

“I am a progressive, a passionate progressive. I want change, but the type of change which I have come to understand, through time and trial, that the Conservatives are institutionally unable to provide since they continually pander to their own far-right interests.

“Therefore, with the greatest of personal respects to the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and for some of my colleagues: with immediate effect, I have resigned from the Conservative Group.

“I have resigned from the Conservative Party.

“I have applied to join the Liberal Democrats.”

And on saying that, Cllr Pittock

left his seat to go and join his new Liberal Democrat colleagues.

Wokingham Conservatives leader Cllr Keith Baker said: “He was clearly uncomfortable with the group. I wish him well.”

Cllr Lindsay Ferris, Liberal Democrat leader, was delighted.

He said: “It is clear that the tide is turning and more and more people are seeing that the Conservatives are letting down the residents of Wokingham Borough.

“The February by-election in Emmbrook showed the strength of local residents’ feelings, as the Lib Dems took the seat from the Conservatives with a 696 majority.”

The Conservatives still hold an overall majority on the council.

Questions over point of order

meeting last year, the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP) recommended that no councillor should be eligible to receive more than one SRA, something that Cllr Baker spoke against, leading to the resignation of both the panel and Cllr Gary Cowan.

Cllr Baker said in November that the IRP was not comparing like for like and advocated the retention of the existing system. He told council: “As always, the devil is in the detail. On balance, I recommend that the council does not accept this recommendation.”

TWO RESIDENTS have argued that members of the public should be able to raise points of order during council meetings.

Philip Meadowcroft argued that Maidenhead and Windsor Council had “adopted a simple, common sense, and entirely workable solution as advised to me by their Democratic Services office on March 6 earlier this month; namely, at a Maidenhead Council meeting, a Point of Order can be raised by a member of the public and will be dealt with there and then entirely at the discretion of the Chairman.”

And Tom Berman said that the minutes for a previous meeting were incorrect but the public had been unable to challenge them.

On being told by the Mayor that it was the chief executive who advised that members of the public are barred from raising points of order, Mr Berman asked: “Would it be correct to say that the Chief Executive is not a lawyer and not legally qualified to give a professional opinion on this interpretation of the constitution?”

He was told the council was “sticking to this line”.

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Maps to be digitised THE borough’s maps will be digitised as a result of work taking place to introduce traffic wardens later this year.

Cllr Malcolm Richards, the executive member for highways and transport, that this is an “additional benefit which will enable online access to maps and all the Civil Parking Enforcement regulations applicable across the borough not just within out offices but eventually for all our residents to see on their own computers and phones.”

Cllr Richards also raised the issue of traffic jams.

“I don’t like them, I get stuck in them as well, but the work is required and cannot simply be put off until later. We would like to ask you to be patient and bear with us during this busy time.”

Exec post to be axed AN EXECUTIVE post will be axed as part of the council’s commitment to reducing costs.

Cllr Keith Baker, leader of the Wokingham Conservatives, announced the plan as he set out his vision should he continue as the party’s leader after the annual council meeting in May. It is the resident services role, which includes libraries, that will be reallocated. Cllr Baker said that he would take over personnel, while procurement would go to the financial role.

“This allows me to remove the executive role which will provide additional savings of £12,000.

I am currently discussing with Cllr Pauline Jorgensen options of the future. Rest assured my executive will not be losing her exceptional talents.”

Cllr Baker did not say which role she would be taking over, nor which executive member she would be replacing as a result.

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Parents from the Fairer Funding for Schools campaign ahead of the council debate last week Picture: Phil Creighton

By PHIL CREIGHTON news@wokinghampaper.co.uk PARENTS and parties united during a long debate on the issue of school funding across the borough.

A petition organised by supporters of the Fairer Funding campaign for Wokingham triggered the debate at a meeting of Wokingham Borough Council in its Shute End offices last Thursday night.

And with so many councillors and members of the public asking questions the time allocated to the debate and the questions from parents were extended after a vote to enable everyone to have their say.

Rachael Bradley, one of the parents behind the campaign, told the chamber: “I found that Wokingham schools are the worst funded in the country. Our schools are being forced to cut subjects due to lack of money. Teachers are leaving schools and not being replaced.

“Some of our local schools don’t have enough textbooks for our children to study from.

“I know that our schools have been highly achieving despite their terrible funding but if our schools continue to suffer, educational levels and pupils will too.”

And Annabell Yoxall, another parent campaigner, urged councillors to take action.

She said: “To show your support, we would ask that you work together cross party in an if any schools had used short-term loans from the endeavour to get the funding for our area that council to pay staff salaries, but was not given an is so desperately needed now. Our campaign has answer by Cllr Dolinski. strong links with the national parent led Fair She challenged him and he replied: “To be fair Funding For All Schools campaign. To reflect to you, I need to research it”. your assistance, we request that the council However, to applause, she hit back: “I submitted write to every headteacher and ask them to make my question in advance to give you enough time their parent community aware of the national to research it.” campaign, highlighting that with pupil funding In the debate, Cllr Dolinski said that over the going down everywhere, the new formula will past 10 years, no government had found a fair solve nothing for Wokingham. solution to schools funding.

“We can supply you with a template for this “We, as a council, must do whatever it takes letter should you require one. We would also to persuade Government to not only improve urge the executive members to reiterate to the level of funding but demand that our pupils headteachers the message of our petition and are treated equally and not be disadvantaged urge them to write to their MP. because our schools are coping.”

“As parents we will not allow our children’s Cllr Keith Baker, leader of Wokingham education and future life chances to be stolen Conservatives and the council, said the situation from them. This is not an educational rehearsal, was a ticking time bomb. there are no second chances.”

“I totally support this petition.”

During the parents question time, many raised Cllr John Halsall from Remenham, Wargrave the funding issue with them. and Ruscombe, said that as a school governor he Gill Manton asked Cllr Richard Dolinski, knew the problems schools faced. stepping in for education member Cllr Charlotte “The national system does not fund the Haitham Taylor, about the steps taken by the 18-month start-up costs [of building new schools] council to ensure the borough’s schools are and relies on funds allocated to local authorities. sufficiently funded.

Therefore new schools are subsidized by existing He said: “Conservative members in the ones in the local authority. borough have tirelessly kept Wokingham funding “The significant growth of Wokingham’s levels on the agenda of national decision makers”, population and the high number of new schools citing that Cllr Haitham Taylor had met with the means that our schools are disproportionately secretary of state for education and local MPs impacted by this.” over the issue.

Cllr Lindsay Ferris, leader of the Liberal Vicki Laurie argued that there was an 8% cut in real terms for schools, but Cllr Dolinski said it was an average of 2.6%.

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He said: “We have been reminded many times that we are the lowest funded authority in the Country, so it comes as an unpleasant surprise to find that WBC have employed a number of senior staff on temporary contracts. Ten of these are costing WBC over £550 per day including an Assistant Director for Learning & Achievement who has cost £780 per day he has worked for nearly three years!

“While many of these temporary staff do not work full time, these extravagant costs come at a time when Wokingham Borough Council is facing one of its greatest cutbacks, both financially and in staffing. We are concerned that so many staff are employed in this way.

“Perhaps if WBC had been more frugal, it may be in a better position to assist our Schools, or even able to retain our School Crossing Patrol Service?”

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also expressed dismay. He was the only councillor to vote against the motion, feeling that it didn’t go far enough.

He cited new research by the National Union of Teachers that said the funding crisis is now £8.1m, rather than £6.5m.

He told The Wokingham Paper: “[The debate] was extraordinary. Cllr Baker seemed to be saying that only a crisis on the scale of a war would allow us to get to grips with the crisis in Education funding.

“Underfunding education is a political choice – it is part of the austerity agenda chosen by the Tories and now forced on our schools.

“It hasn’t worked for seven years and it isn’t working now.

“Investment in education is investment in the future of this country yet Keith Baker thinks we need some sort of national emergency to justify the extra £8.1 million Wokingham schools need.

“It just goes to show how out of touch and how bereft of ideas the Tories are.”

Cllr David Lee, the former leader of the council, encouraged all councillors to write to their local MP on the issue.

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7.45pm. The John Grobler Room, Winnersh Community Centre, New Road, Winnersh RG41 5DU. Wokingham Without Parish Council meeting. 7.30pm.

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Tuesday April 4 Winnersh Parish Council Recreation & Amenities Committee. 7.45pm. The John Grobler Room, Winnersh Community Centre, New Road, Winnersh RG41 5DU. Wokingham Town Council. Full town council meeting. 7.30pm.

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Thursday, April 6 Wokingham Borough Council. Health and Wellbeing Board. 5pm. Civic Offices, Shute End, Wokingham, RG40 1BN

Friday, April 7 Wokingham Borough Council. Executive - Individual Member Decisions: Sonning Conservation Area Appraisal. Civic Offices, Shute End, Wokingham, RG40 1BN

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To advertise email advertising@wokinghampaper.co.uk A MAN from Earley is due to appear in court charged with theft.

Stephen Painter, 39, of Stanton Close, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on March 2 where he denied three counts of theft. He pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a Class B drug.

Mr Painter is alleged to have stolen DVDs worth £59.94 from Co-Op in Church Road on August 22 last year; hiking boots worth £100 from Trespass in Reading on August 30; and electrical items worth £129.96 from MenKind in Reading on December 15. Mr Painter denies all of these charges.

He has been remanded on bail to appear at the same court on May 8. He is not to enter the Co-Op, Trespass in Oxford Road, Reading, or The Oracle Shopping Centre until that time.

A MAN from Arborfield has been fined £475 for drink driving.

Lee Howard Best, 44, of Wood Lane, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on March 3 where he admitted driving on January 21 while above the alcohol limit.

Mr Best was fined £475, ordered to pay a surcharge of £48, and costs of £85. He was also banned from driving for 17 months.

A MAN from Wokingham is due to appear in court charged with criminal damage.

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May 2 charged with one count of criminal damage.

He is alleged to have intentionally damaged a door in Millbrook Court, Wokingham on May 14 last year. Mr Cummins denies the charge.

Mr Cummins appeared at the same court on March 3 where he pleaded guilty to failing to surrender to court on February 6.

A MAN from Earley has been banned from driving for 23 months.

Mark Denton, 44, of Bramley Close, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on March 3 where he admitted driving while over the alcohol limit on November 30 last year.

Mr Denton was ordered to carry out 90 hours of unpaid community work within the next 12 months; to pay a surcharge of £85, and costs of £135. He was also banned from

holding a licence for 23 months.

A MAN from Shinfield is due to appear in court charged with attempting to steal items from a car.

Gary Edward Thomson, 42, of Rushden Drive, is due to appear at Reading Magistrates’ Court on April 25, where he is accused of attempting to steal from a woman in Caversham, Reading, on February 16 this year. Mr Thomson denies the charge.

A MAN from Earley has pleaded guilty to criminal damage and harassment charges.

Joshua John Starkes, 23, of Avalon Road, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on March 8 where he admitted intentionally damaging a lock and door frame belonging to a woman in Earley on January 8 this year.

He also admitted to harassing

the same woman on January 9.

Mr Starke was issued with a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting the woman directly or indirectly until March 3 2018. He was also ordered to pay a surcharge of £85, and costs of £85.

A MAN from Wokingham has been banned from driving for 18 months after pleading guilty to drink driving.

Petru Matei, 28, of Nine Mile Ride, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on March 9 where he admitted driving while over the alcohol limit in Finchampstead on February 19 this year.

He was also charged with driving without insurance.

Mr Matei was banned from holding a licence for 18 months, fined £200, ordered to pay a surcharge of £30 and costs of £85.

For driving without insurance he was fined £200.

A MAN from Wokingham has pleaded guilty to stealing a bottle of whiskey.

Mark Arthur Stewart, 56, of Peach Street, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on March 9 where he admitted stealing the whiskey, worth £20, from Waitrose in Wokingham on February 6 this year.

Mr Stewart was given a conditional discharge for 12 months, ordered to pay compensation of £20, a surcharge of £20 and costs of £40.

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Hong Kong company to take over train services to Waterloo

By GEMMA DAVIDSON gdavidson@wokinghampaper.co.uk WOKINGHAM’S train service to and from London Waterloo will be operated by a new partnership, after the South West Trains franchise was awarded to a new provider.

MTR, a Hong Kong based provider, will team up with First Group to take over the franchise from August 2017 until at least August 2024, the Department for Transport (DofT) announced on Monday.

Over the course of the franchise, which will be known as First MTR, £1.2bn will be invested to improve every aspect of train journeys on the South Western network, based on feedback from customers, staff and community groups.

FirstMTR have pledged to provide state-of-the-art trains, and will introduce 750 new, spacious train carriages for the Windsor, Reading and London Suburban routes by December 2020, as well as 18 additional, fully refurbished trains (90 carriages) on the London-Portsmouth route from December 2018.

The company said the move will provide 52,000 more seats at London Waterloo every day, while the rest of the network’s fleet will be refreshed, and will provide more reliable Wi-Fi, charging points, and real-time travel and connection information screens.

The partnership has also announced that it will begin rolling out faster journey times to stations including Reading, Salisbury and Southampton from December 2018, and will double the service to Reading throughout the day.

Simpler fares, with mobile and smart ticketing, will also be introduced, which will include flexible season tickets and new lower fares for 16 to 18-year-olds.

Claiming compensation will also be made simpler with the introduction of an easy-to-use

‘delay repay’ scheme for the first time on the network.

Station upgrades will also be introduced under the partnership, with a £90m investment planned for Southampton Central, and further capacity at Waterloo will be available by the end of 2018.

Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling said: “This is great news for rail passengers. FirstGroup and MTR will deliver the improvements that people tell us they want right across the South Western franchise area, from Southampton and Portsmouth, to Bristol and Exeter, to Reading, Windsor and London.

“We are delivering the biggest rail modernisation programme for over a century and this franchise will deliver real changes for passengers, who can look forward to modern trains, faster journeys and a more reliable service.”

FirstGroup Chief Executive Tim O’Toole said: “We are delighted that our partnership with MTR has been selected by the DfT to run the South Western rail franchise, a key part of the country’s railway network which millions of people rely on every day.

“Our successful bid will deliver the tangible improvements that customers and stakeholders have told us they want from this franchise.

Passengers can look forward to new and better trains, more seats and services, quicker journey times, improved stations and more flexible fare options.”

Jeremy Long, CEO of European Business, MTR Corporation said: “MTR is known across the world for the excellent quality of its rail services, and we look forward to working with FirstGroup to provide a best-in-class travel experience for passengers in London and the South West.

“Together we will deliver a major programme of upgrades, including improvements to both rail services and customer experience, for passengers travelling across the South Western network.”

Pupils from St Nicholas in Hurst enjoyed meeting some newborn lambs last week Pictures: Sue Corcoran

Children full of the joys of spring CHILDREN shared the excitement of feeding four orphan lambs when they called into their school playground for a visit.

The pupils at St Nicholas Primary School, Hurst, will get another chance to see the lambs when they return to the village for Hurst Show and Country Fayre on June 24 and 25.

The lambs, Dorset crossbreds, are part of the Basil and Crew mobile farm, based at Maidenhead, which is a popular show attraction.

Their animals also include goats, ponies, donkeys,

chickens, geese and ducks.

Six-weeks-old, the lambs are now down to one bottle of milk each a day. The milk disappeared rapidly as the St Nicholas four- and five-year-olds took turns to feed their woolly visitors.

Teacher Julie Easton said: “Everyone was brave enough to have a go at feeding them. It was such a good experience. The children had just come out of assembly where we talked about Easter flowers, chicks and lambs.”

She said the children had asked good questions about the

animals. Also on the visit were two Shetland sheep which are acting as the lambs’ foster mothers, showing them how to eat and behave, and two curly horned Castlemilk sheep.

Farmer Pete Holmes had his first experience of sheep shearing last year with the Shetlands. “I bought electric shears, but decided they needed expert handling, they are so sharp. We ended up doing it by hand, with scissors, very slowly,” he said.

Hurst Show and Country Fayre details are at www.HurstShow.uk/

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Easter upgrades planned for railways RAIL passengers who are planning to travel over the Easter period are being advised to plan their journeys carefully.

Network Rail will be undertaking £4million worth of upgrade work between Good Friday (April 14) and Easter Sunday, which will affect routes in and out of London Waterloo and through Twickenham.

Sections of track will be replaced and a new gantry will be installed at Waterloo, while signalling equipment will be upgraded at Twickenham station.

From Good Friday to Easter

Sunday (inclusive), fewer services will be running in and out of Waterloo station, and bus replacement services will be in operation between Barnes, Hounslow and Teddington owing to the work at Twickenham.

Becky Lumlock, route managing director at Network Rail, said: “As part of our Railway Upgrade Plan we’re investing £4 million in the railway at Waterloo over the Easter break.

“This work is in preparation for the Waterloo & South West Upgrade which will increase

capacity at Waterloo by 30% by the end of 2018.

“While there’s never a good time to close the railway, bank holiday weekends provide us with an extended period of time to get significant pieces of work done when passenger numbers drop by up to 50%.

I’d like to thank passengers for their patience while we carry out our work and remind them to check their journeys in advance to see how they may be affected.”

Passengers can check their journeys online at nationalrail. co.uk.

Time to remember loved ones A SERVICE of Remembrance for anyone who has lost a loved one will be taking place in Reading this weekend.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend Reading Minster of St Mary the Virgin on Sunday as part of the service organised by funeral directors A. B. Walker.

Those attending the service, led by the Bishop of Reading,

the Rt Revd Andrew Proud, will be invited to light a candle in memory of their loved ones who have died.

Refreshments will be provided after the service.

Matthew Walker, Director of A.B. Walker, said: “The Service of Remembrance is always extremely moving.

“Despite the inevitability of mortality no-one is truly

prepared for the feelings it brings.

“We want to offer those who have been bereaved the chance to be with others who have also lost a loved one. It is an occasion of togetherness that allows us to reflect on love and lives shared.”

The service starts at 5pm. n For more information visit www.abwalker.co.uk.

Glebelands Care Home is a residential home with nursing located in countryside on the edge of the market town of Wokingham Berkshire.

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Pies are a hit as they win another award TWYFORD is clearly the place to go for a tasty award-winning pie.

That’s because butcher Jon Thorner’s, which has an outlet at Hare Hatch Sheeplands garden centre, has won yet another national competition.

Its steak and kidney pie was named Class Champion at the National British Pie Awards earlier this month, beating hundreds of other contenders.

The awards are a national celebration of British pies hosted by the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association.

Pie-makers from across the country entered in a bid to impress a team of culinary professionals

and industry experts who were looking for fantastic flavours and perfect pastry.

As well as the Class Champion award Jon Thorner’s also received eleven British Pie Award commendations for flavours such as brisket and horseradish, steak and stilton, creamy chicken, smoked bacon and leek and sweet potato and goat’s cheese.

Paul Heaps, manager of Jon Thorner’s at Sheeplands, said: “We recently added a number of different varieties to our range of pies and they have proved very popular.

“Even so the old favourites of steak

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and ale and steak and kidney are still our best selling pies.

“Generally speaking business is very good and up on last year,

with our bulk pack meats proving very popular.”

Gerry hands agency’s keys over to David Cliff

By PHIL CREIGHTON news@wokinghampaper.co.uk A BINFIELD estate agent is preparing to retire after more than 30 years in the business, and is handing over the keys to another community stalwart.

From Friday, Gerry Burke will step down from his estate agency, run from the Terrace Road South. Coming in is David Cliff, which currently has offices in Wokingham’s Peach Street.

Mr Cliff said that he was honoured to be asked by Mr Burke to step into his shoes and also expand the company’s operations to the neighbouring village.

“It’s really exciting and a fantastic sport to be in,” Mr Cliff added. “Binfield as a location is developing rapidly. It’s a lovely village with a good mix of people.

“Gerry has been here for 30 years and he doesn’t want to hand it over to anyone who won’t look after it. He trusts me to do things in the same vein: client first.

“I’m incredibly flattered.”

Mr Cliff said that there will be a gradual rebrand over the next month, mainly out of respect for Mr Burke.

“We will revamp the office gradually.

We didn’t want to do anything while he was still there – it seemed disrespectful.

It’s going to be a month-long transition.”

Mr Cliff is appointing David Hatch to be the office manager for the Binfield branch.

“We’ve got a genuinely expert estate agent coming in. We’re not taking this lightly - he’s a top man.”

And despite this being his first expansion into Binfield, Mr Cliff said that

the area, has been a long time coming.

“I wanted to go in there for the past 15 years but there’s never been a commercial premises available.

“The area has a lovely feel. We’ll have complete continuity to Gerry, it’ll just be different.”

The office will mean that David Cliff Estate Agents will be the only agent to be able to market properties in both Wokingham and Binfield.

“I think it’s going to be very successful.”

Mr Burke’s wife Brenda said: “We’re looking forward to retirement.

“We’ve sold many houses in the village, many times over.

“We wish him every successful, he’ll be very popular in the village and we like him very much.

“The handover has been a very pleasant experience.”

The couple don’t live in the village but will pop in and catch up from time-to-time.

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AST week, I wrote about the plight of the Wokingham’s 20 somethings often referred to as ‘Generation Rent’. Attitudes to renting have certainly changed over the last twenty years. My analysis suggested, this change is likely to be permanent.

To recap, whilst a minority of Generation Rent feel trapped, the majority don’t – making renting a choice not a predicament. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) predicted that the private rental sector is likely to grow substantially by 1.8m households across the UK in the next eight years.

Demand for rental property is unlikely to slow. Newly formed households are likely to continue to choose to rent as opposed to buying.

My real concern for Wokingham homeowners and Wokingham landlords alike, is our mature members of the population of Wokingham. In a previous article, I stated that current OAP’s (65+ yrs in age) in Wokingham are sitting on £2.805bn of residential property ... however, I didn’t talk in depth about the ‘Baby Boomers’, the 50yr to 64yr old Wokingham people and what their properties are worth. There is also a question of how the current state of affairs might hold back the younger Generation Renters.

In Wokingham, there are 3,887 households with owners aged between 50yrs and 64yrs who are about to pay their mortgage off. That property is worth, in today’s prices, £2.008bn. There are an additional 3,994 mortgage-free Wokingham households, owned by 50yr to 64yr olds, worth £2.063bn in today’s prices, meaning...

Wokingham Baby Boomers and Wokingham OAP’s are sitting on £6.877bn worth of Wokingham Property These Wokingham Baby Boomers and OAP’s are sitting on 13,310 Wokingham properties. Many of them feel trapped in their homes, and hence I have dubbed

them ‘Generation Trapped’.

Recently, the English Housing Survey stated 49% of these properties owned by the ‘Generation Trapped’, are ‘underoccupied’ (under-occupied classed as having at least two bedrooms more than needed). These houses could be better utilised by younger families, but research carried out by the Prudential suggests only one in ten older people in the UK downsize while in the USA for example one in five do so.

The growing numbers of older homeowners who want to downsize their home are often put off by the difficulties of moving. The charity, United for all Ages, suggested recently many are put off by the lack of housing options, 19% by the hassle and cost of moving, 14% by having to declutter their possessions and 14% by family reasons such as staying close to children and grandchildren.

Helping mature Wokingham homeowners to downsize at the right time will also enable younger Wokingham people to find the homes they need – meaning every generation wins, both young and old. However, to ensure downsizing works, as a country, we need more choices for our ‘last time buyers’.

Theresa May and Philip Hammond can do their part and consider stamp duty tax breaks for downsizers. Our local Council in Wokingham and the Planning Dept. should play their part, as should landlords and property investors to ensure Wokingham’s ‘Generation Trapped’ can find suitable property locally, close to friends, family and facilities.  For more thoughts on the Wokingham property market like this, visit the Wokingham Property Market Property Blog at www.wokinghampropertyblog. co.uk Erica Townend is a director and co-owner of the Martin & Co estate agency in Wokingham and has been aligned closely to the world of property for almost 20 years. Opinions expressed in this column are her own.

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Crossing patrol staff face axe  From front page There are eight affected schools: Emmbrook Infant & Junior School, Highwood Primary School, Coombes Primary School, Earley St Peter’s Primary School, Whiteknights Primary School, Beechwood Primary, Hawthorns Primary School, and Sonning Primary School.

Parents and guardians, have been invited to comment on the proposals for the public consultation, which ends on Wednesday, April 19.

The review was announced on March 1 by the council and they argue that the eight schools already have pedestrian crossings providing a safe point for schoolchildren to cross the road.

One of the affected staff, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: “We were sent a letter which didn’t get to us until the Saturday before being asked to attend a meeting chaired

by Cllr Malcolm Richards, Matt Gould from the Highways Department, an HR manager and our line manager.

“We were basically told the council had run out of money to fund crossing patrols.”

And the lollipop person said that they were handed an envelope with an explanation of what their redundancy packages would be like. They were also told that the council had only received 70 responses to the public consultation.

“I feel quite strongly that our school needs a crossing patrol. I want to keep my job – I feel I’m doing something for the community.”

And they said that last week there had been an accident on their patch just minutes after their shift had ended.

“Had it been 10 minutes earlier, there could have been casualties,” they said.

Cllr Malcolm Richards, executive member for highways and transport, said: “We have met with the existing school crossing patrollers and discussed the proposals with them.

“Potentially affected patrollers are being supported through the consultation period with regular one-to-one meetings and support from HR.” Last month, he said: “Ensuring children can get to school safely is of fundamental importance to us but these eight sites already have pedestrian crossings giving a safe point to cross.”

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Care home for TV stars put up for sale

By GEMMA DAVIDSON gdavidson@wokinghampaper.co.uk A PRESTIGIOUS care home in Wokingham is set to be sold after 80 years.

Glebelands Care Home in Woolf Drive, which is run by The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), announced yesterday (Wednesday) its intention to sell the home to Greensleeves Care.

The CTBF caters for people who used to work behind the scenes in cinema, film and television, but is looking to review the way it provides care to better suit its clients’ needs, including a move towards choosing a care home closer to friends and family, as well as a rising need from specialist care support.

Greensleeves Care is a specialist care provider which manages residential, dementia & nursing care homes across the Midlands, Southern and Eastern England, and has been providing care for 20 years.

The charitable, not-for-profit trust plans to invest in Glebelands to improve the facilities and support on offer to residents.

D’Arcy Myers, Interim CEO of The CTBF, said: “We have had the privilege of running Glebelands for the past 80 years and I’m proud of its standing as part of the community in Wokingham. This opportunity will secure Glebelands’ future as a

care home which can continue to offer a high quality care option for people in the local community and CTBF beneficiaries and their loved ones.

“We believe Greensleeves is an excellent choice to take over running the home and want to reassure current and potential residents that this transaction will have a positive impact on the service the home provides.

“Operating a care home is an increasingly specialised service. The sale of Glebelands will allow us to concentrate on better meeting the changing needs of people working behind the scenes in Cinema, TV and Film, who find themselves in times of need for one reason or another.

This agreement with Greensleeves Care means we can do that knowing Glebelands care home is in safe hands.”

Paul Newman, Chief Executive of Greensleeves Care, said: “We are delighted that the CTBF has chosen us as the organisation to secure the future of Glebelands as a care home.

“We are very conscious of its distinguished heritage and the affection for it that exists in the cinema, film and television communities. That’s why CTBF beneficiaries will always be welcome at Glebelands and our focus will be on offering the best possible care in the future for all residents.”

Making Mums’ day RECEPTION pupils from Wheatfields Primary School in Winnersh celebrated their Mums, grandparents and loved ones last Friday with a special party.

They sang a song, showed pictures, pampered them and served them an afternoon tea. The event was in honour of Mothering Sunday

Approval expected for Gorse Ride plans A MAJOR redevelopment in Finchampstead could be underway if plans are approved by Wokingham Borough Council (WBC) this evening (Thursday).

Improvements to the councilowned homes in Gorse Ride South are long overdue and require significant investment to bring them up to the council’s standard.

The plans, which are set to be approved by theCouncil’s Executive

tonight, could see the rehousing of tenants and the demolition of Cockayne Court, some properties in Arnett Avenue and 154 Barkham Ride. The scheme would be funded by section 106 money collected from developers for affordable housing.

All tenants who would be potentially affected by this first phase of the redevelopment scheme have been advised of the proposals,

and residents of the wider estate were briefed at a public meeting.

Details of the redevelopment are yet to be finalised and are subject to planning permission, but it is suggested that between 40 and 46 homes could be built on the area proposed for demolition at a cost of £6million. These homes would be a mix of one and two-bedroom apartments, and two, three and four-bedroom houses.

Cllr Alistair Auty, deputy executive member for health and wellbeing, said: “For Gorse Rise South as a whole this could be a very exciting time and the start of a transformation of the area for the better. But we do realise it is potentially very unsettling for those directly affected by the proposals and we are making sure they get the support and the information they need.”

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W Therapist of the Year was presented by Theresa May (left) to Natalie Redfern, watched by Di Brown and David Brownlow

By GEMMA DAVIDSON gdavidson@wokinghampaper.co.uk A GLITTERING awards ceremony honouring local people who go the extra mile for disabled children had a very special guest in attendance last Friday (24).

Days after the attacks in Westminster, and days before triggering Article 50, PM Theresa May was at Sonning Golf Club to present the awards for the inaugural Building for the Future awards.

The awards celebrated local heroes who go above and beyond for the needs of disabled children in the borough, with gongs recognising teachers, teaching assistants, therapists, medical professionals and activity providers.

Each finalist received a large badge for them to wear with pride, signalling that they have been given the Building for the Future seal of approval.

CEO of the charity, which is based in Toutley Road, Jane Holmes said: “It was a complete privilege to celebrate these very special people and welcoming the Prime Minister to present the prizes was an absolute honour. Our grateful thanks go to her, to our very generous award sponsors and of course the fabulous winners and runners up.

“As parents of disabled children ourselves, we know all too well what harsh critics we can be and it’s not often that we get the opportunity to say thank you. Fortunately other parents agreed as we were inundated with nominations and whittling them down to the two finalists who came to our ceremony was very difficult. It was a great night though and we are already looking forward to the next Awards.”

The winners: Teacher of the year - sponsored by Neil Jessop from Global Point One Railton Blyth from St Crispins (winner) Teaching Assistant of the Year - sponsored

by Gordon Storey at Twyford Together Casey Benford from Addington (winner) Laura Noviss from Southlake (runner up) Therapist of the Year - sponsored

by David Brownlow at the David

Theresa May and Ray Best with the Activity Provider of the Year award presented to Katherine Cook (centre)

Medical professional of the year went to Katherine Burns (second left), watched

by Theresa May, Josie Lemon and Andy Barden

CEO of Building for the Future Jane Holmes welcomes people to the awards, watched by Theresa May and Ray Best

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by Ray Best at Wills, Tax and Trusts Ltd Katherine Cook from Whitley Park School (winner)

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E all want to keep our hard-earned cash in the family when we die.

Here we explain how using a Trust can protect your wealth and ensure only the people you want it to go to actually get it.

Most people want to leave something to their spouse, children or other family members but if you simply gift cash, property or other assets to them, these gifts are included in the estate of the person who receives them.

This means they are exposed to social impacts, such as divorce, remarriage or bankruptcy.

Directing your wealth into Trust means it is better protected from third party claims, such as from an ex-partner or creditors.

The assets are owned by the Trust and are generally considered outside of a beneficiary’s estate, which means they may not be included as part of a divorce arrangement.

We don’t like to think that we or our children will divorce, but the reality is that it may happen – exposing your assets to claims outside of your bloodline.

Trusts also have some advantages when it comes to estate planning in that gifts to certain trusts are treated as Potentially Exempt Transfers (PETs) and will fall outside of your estate for inheritance tax purposes after seven years.

For those who cannot fully commit to losing income or access to capital from gifted assets there are trusts which can enable a continuing income to be paid.

Alternatively, a loan could be made to a trust whereby any growth in value is gifted but the right to repayment of the loan is retained.

What are Trusts?

Simply put, Trusts are a legal agreement.

One person agrees to look after the property of another person to benefit a third person.

Take Karen, she has agreed to look after £50,000 from John that he would eventually like to give to Peter, Karen’s son.

Doing this sets up a Trust.

There are three parts to a Trust…

The Settlor – is the person setting up the Trust and putting the property, or assets, into it.

The Trustees – are the owners of the property in the trust, and are legally responsible for looking after the property and distributing it for a particular purpose – such as a loan, gift or income to the beneficiaries.

The Beneficiary – is the person or people who benefit from the property held in trust.

As the property put into Trust is owned by the Trust, it isn’t included in the estate of the person benefitting from it.

So, the £50,000 that John would like to give Peter is owned by the Trust and therefore can’t be attributed to, or counted as part of, Peter’s wealth.

Karen, as Trustees of the Trust, can decide when and how to give Peter the £50,000.

You can arrange a trust through a solicitor or if you are considering the wider impacts of gifting, including investing the gift or planning ahead to see if you can afford to gift assets, then talk to an Independent Financial Adviser who will also have solicitor contacts for arranging trusts.

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Accident on A329m sees man in hospital A MAN has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries after his car overturned on the A329M near Wokingham on Monday morning.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the collision on the Wokingham-bound carriageway, close to the junction with the M4.

Thames Valley Police confirmed that one vehicle was involved in the collision. Lane two of the carriageway was blocked while paramedics attended.

South Central Ambulance Service were called at 9.49am, and sent an ambulance, an officer and the air ambulance rapid response car to the scene.

The male driver of the car is said to have sustained a serious head injury and was taken to the Major Trauma Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

The lane closure had knock-on effect to traffic in the area, with long tail-backs on the westbound M4, and on the A329M Wokinghambound.

Teenager injured in late night accident A teenager was taken to hospital with serious injuries after an accident on Station Road in Wokingham town centre on Sunday.

Thames Valley Police confirmed that they had been called to the area after the incident, which took place around 4.26am, involving a car and the pedestrian.

It took place near the Hope and Anchor pub.

A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police told The Wokingham Paper: “We were called to a report of a serious injury road traffic collision on Station Road near The Hope and Anchor.

“A car had struck a 19-year-old male pedestrian who was in the carriageway at the time.

“The pedestrian has been taken to hospital where he is being treated for his injuries.”

The spokesperson added: “Anyone with any info about this incident who has not yet called police is asked to contact 101 and use ref 225 26/3.”

New chapter for library in Carnival Pool move plan

By JOHN WAKEFIELD news@wokinghampaper.co.uk A PLAN to move Wokingham’s library to the new Carnival Place development is expected to be approved next week.

The council has announced the plan as part of its desire to turn the revamped site, which will be home to Carnival Pool, a bowling alley and a new multi-storey car park, into a cultural centre for Wokingham.

They say that the site will bring together “a range of great things for people to do in new and improved facilities in a single, easy-to-reach location for residents”.

There is no immediate plan to move the library – tonight’s Executive meeting of Wokingham Borough Council will be to agree an “in-principle” decision to move the library from its present base in Denmark Street to Carnival Pool.

But there will be lots of hoops for the Council to jump through before such a scheme can go ahead. This may include compulsory purchase orders for some of the land in the Carnival Place scheme – none of the area around Carnival Pool is affected, including the allotments.

With this in mind, any building work is not expected to start until 2019 but the preparatory work has to take place now.

WOKINGHAM - WE NEED YOU EVENMORE! One of WOKINGHAM’S newest registered charities WOKINGHAM IN NEED was launched in September 2015 with the grand opening of new kitchen facilities (following the successful wet room installation and breakfast bar area), at the Salvation Army Church and Community Centre, Sturges Road, Wokingham. We are now pleased to advise you that THE WOKINGHAM DROP IN CENTRE - has arrived . On the 27th February 2017 the official opening took place and the facility is to be used to help the Homeless and Vulnerable in Wokingham.The Drop in Centre, created by WOKINGHAM IN NEED (W IN), is on the site of the premises of the Salvation Army Citadel, Sturges Road, in Wokingham.

The Salvation Army and a team of volunteers will develop their existing resources and provide new workshops and individual support to help the homeless and vulnerable in our society. WIN will work with the Salvation Army in relation to assisting with requirements and needs for the Drop In Centre. WIN has also donated a large storage unit, located next to the Drop in Centre, which will provide supplies to those in need.

“However we still need additional funds for this project and also to assist other groups in the community as there is even more to do in the future ”, said Sue Jackson, “and we want to include the whole Community’s needs as we progress with helping others.

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Cllr Mark Ashwell, executive member for planning and regeneration, said: “It’s a complex and lengthy legal process so, with our plans to start on site in 2019, this is the right time to start looking at what’s required to deliver the second phase of the Carnival development.”

And the councillor responsible for libraries said that the move will enable a purpose-built facility to be created.

Cllr Pauline Jorgensen, executive member for resident services, said: “A move to Carnival could allow us to create a fantastic state-of-theart new library for Wokingham and surrounding area which would be at the heart of the new leisure and cultural centre of the town – an ideal place for people to link activities or try something new, maybe see an exhibition or attend a lecture before going on to the gym. Or browsing for library books, while the children are in swim school and then all grabbing a coffee in the new café.”

It’s not the only modernisation of the borough’s libraries: the Denmark Street branch has just reopened after a refurbishment which includes new self-service facilities.

Cllr Ashwell added: “Work on the first phase of the Carnival regeneration is going well and we will be opening the new car park in just a few months.”

Last year’s winner of the RG10 garden contest Sally Castle (centre) with Sheeplands plant area manager Maria Witowska and centre owner Rob Scott

Gardeners invited to get busy GARDENERS in the RG10 area will soon be digging for victory in readiness for this year’s front garden competition, which is again organised by Hare Hatch Sheeplands.

The Twyford garden centre launched the competition for the first time last year and it was won by Sally Castle who lives in Ruscombe. She received a £100 voucher to spend at Sheeplands.

This year the competition will be supporting villagers in their attempt to gain a gold medal for their 2017 Twyford in Bloom entry.

Sheeplands owner Rob Scott said “We were so pleased with the reaction to last year’s competition that we were never in any doubt that we would repeat it.”

Entry is free. It is open to any resident of the RG10 area who is over the age of 16. The garden must be the work of the resident and no outside professional help is allowed.

Apply now for Prince’s grant A FUND set up by the Prince of Wales offering grants of up to £50,000 for countryside projects is welcoming submissions.

The Prince’s Countryside Fund aims to help rural organisations and communities tackle a wide range of rural issues including support and business advice for traditional farming families, career support and training opportunities for young people and support for communities to run vital community services.

Applications are being particularly welcomed from community shops, pubs and innovative projects intended to alleviate rural isolation.

Clare Crookenden, grant manager, said: “The Prince’s Countryside Fund is seeking applications from creative and inspirational projects right across the UK. We are keen to encourage more applicants from rural communities. I

would encourage anyone thinking of applying to visit our website to find out more about our grant programme and read our eligibility guidance.”

Projects supported by the Fund fall into several key areas: Providing training opportunities and apprenticeship schemes for those seeking a career in agriculture.

Providing support and advice to community shops to keep rural communities thriving.

Helping rural enterprises and farm businesses to become more economically viable.

Supporting farmers experiencing financial hardship and severe stress.

All applicants need to complete an online form which can be accessed via our website www. princescountrysidefund.org.uk.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on Thursday, April 13.

Please donate : by cheque made payable to Wokingham In Need which can be sent/ delivered to Prospect Estate Agents, one of our valued sponsors, at their Broad Street Office in Wokingham. Alternatively contact our website to see other ways to donate.

New town mayor announced

Thank you to our existing supporters: Prospect Estate Agents: Wokingham Lions: Healthwatch: Fencing Products: BSW: Alamo Blinds and more please see our website.

THE NEW mayor of Wokingham Town Council is a familiar face – he’s done it before.

Cllr Peter Lucey was, on Tuesday night, nominated for the role.

He will succeed Cllr Gwynneth Hewetson when he takes over in May. The Norreys East was last mayor

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in 2011-13, and is looking forward to returning to the role.

He said: “I thank all the organisations, voluntary and professional, that support our residents and visitors and look forward to working with them, and the Town Council officers and my fellow Councillors in 2017/8.”

The winner will receive a voucher for £100 to spend at Sheeplands. The runner up will receive a voucher valued at £75 and the third placed entry a voucher valued at £50.

Judges will be announced and in addition to naming the top three entries they will award commendations for special features noted during the judging process.

From June 1 entrants will be contacted to make an appointment for their own garden to be viewed. The actual judging will take place from June 15 until the end of the month.

Entry forms are now available at the garden centre or by downloading from the website www.harehatchsheeplands. co.uk.

“It’s all part of our ongoing promise to continue supporting the community in which we trade,” said Mr Scott.

“That promise is being maintained as we continue to do business as usual.”

Wildlife gets boost thanks to John Lewis grand donation WILDLIFE on a nature reserve in Finchampstead will benefit from a donation by a high street department store.

Shepperlands Farm, in Park Lane, has received £1,000 from the John Lewis Reading Community Matters scheme after customers at the Broad Street store used tokens to support the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust.

Alex Cruickshank, Senior Land Manager for Berkshire at the Wildlife Trust, said: “Shepperlands Farm with its mix of heather glades and traditional flower meadow is very popular with local people.

“We are very grateful to John Lewis customers who chose the Wildlife Trust in the Community Matters scheme and to the John Lewis Partners who selected Shepperlands as their favourite nature reserve.

“The Wildlife Trust took on the management of Shepperlands Farm from Len and Marie Goodwin, who recognised just how special their corner of Berkshire is.

“In summer it is a paradise for butterflies and grasshoppers among the wild flowers and heathland.”

Vicky Boatman, Community Liaison Coordinator at John Lewis Reading, said: “John Lewis Reading Partners selected Shepperlands Farm at the western end of Nine Mile Ride as the nature reserve is local to where our Partners live and is an area that many regularly visit.”

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John Cornish sent us this picture taken by his 15-yearold grandson Kalam Sandford during a visit to Dinton Pastures.

As spring is here (and British Summer Time too!)

we can be sure there will be many more great wildlife scenes to be spotted in our borough’s fantastic country parks.

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Housing. The ‘fix’ we’re in Part 3

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AST week, we saw some “white paper weasel words” in the proposals to fix our broken housing market.

Housing crises are hard to fix, white papers too.

Last week we saw the penalising of Local Authorities; right to buy being wrong to build; dogma putting us in the fiscal dog house; along with a few other issues too.

This week we examine some housing history.

How we might cope on our own.

Finally a sneak preview of the “plague on all our houses”.

History & ignorance of it It’s a well-known saying that those who don’t learn history’s lessons are bound to repeat them, one way or another.

The white paper’s look into the history of the UK housing market is about as shallow as a paddling pool. It dates back to 1997, long after some of the root causes of our present housing crisis were well established.

Despite a serious lack of data the further back in time one goes, there are some obvious patterns which date back to the start of the 20th century.

Before the First World War, house prices in London suburbs (about the equivalent of Wokingham today) were around five times the average earnings.

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This dipped briefly to just over two times in 1920, as wages were significantly inflated after the war and the Spanish flu pandemic which both accompanied and followed.

However by 1930, wages had almost halved and house prices had almost doubled, so the misery index was well over six times and rising, while over-crowding in the nations’ slums was widespread as a consequence.

Politicians at the end of the Second World War took Lloyd George’s broken promise from the First World War much more seriously. This time “homes fit for heroes” became a reality as the country embarked on the most ambitious house building programme ever.

From 1945 to 1980, in a zeal to eliminate the slums as well as the bomb craters, Local Authorities built just over 4.7 million council homes while Housing Associations added another 10%. During the same period the private sector managed to build 4.6 million.

So what’s the plan to double the output of the UK’s construction industry in this century?

None that I can find.

If anything, the white paper completely overlooks the people who managed to get the misery index down below three (hint - the private sector only did half the work).

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When common duty over-rides common sense The white paper makes it clear that each local council has to plan its new housing based on growth of both jobs and population.

If it were just these factors: our residents living longer; our families having children and a reasonable increase in jobs within the borough; we could probably cope.

But we’re in an area where the pressure for housing is greatest.

From London in the East to Reading in the West.

London’s run out of space and prices are even sillier than round here. Reading topped PWC’s Good Growth Index in 2013, and was reported as becoming the fastest growing economy in the country according to EY in 2016. Among the former bits of Berkshire, Reading has the least space for new houses.

And in case you’d missed (or forgotten), there’s been significant pressure on Wokingham Borough Council since the Local Plan was introduced covering new housing from 2006-2026. Our “old” number of 623 houses per year (+722 backlog) got upped to 856 per year and (hush my lips) it’s going to go up again if the new white paper becomes law.

Whether we like it or not, there’s a “duty to co-operate” with neighbouring local authorities. This is

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“being strengthened” under the new white paper.

One wonders what compensation Wokingham gets for “co-operating” with Reading, Bracknell, London and so on?

None that I can find.

That common “duty” looks more like a threat: “co-operate or else”.

Regulation or Relegation Yup - this is the biggest intervention in our “free market economy” of housing. At least since the last one in 1980.

However, with the misery index being the worst it’s ever been, it’s time to be considering a new approach, rather than just “more of the same”.

Unless of course government’s planning on a couple of wars and a plague or two to resolve the housing crisis a more substantial way?

Next week, we’ll take a look at more topics which the white paper doesn’t include as we take a trawl through the final third of the document - the public consultation which runs until May 2.  The white paper can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/fixing-our-brokenhousing-market

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AT A VERY interesting council meeting last Thursday night – for which we were the only local media present –there were lots of newsworthy items.

It is heartening to hear councillors unite to pledge to take action on school funding. But it was also heartening to learn that the council is planning to look to support local businesses.

In her statement to council, Cllr Alison Swaddle said that there would be “increased support for small companies to take up public contract opportunities”.

From where the council has already looked at local partnerships, “ savings of approximately £400,000 per annum” are being made.

This is good news for the borough.

Money spent with local businesses means money staying in the borough.

Research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows that 58% more of the money spent by local authorities with small firms is re-spent in the local economy compared to that spent with large businesses in the same area.

Clearly supporting locally owned companies rather than big foreignowned businesses that need to please shareholders above customers.

It’s a strong message but the borough council must stick to it.

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How are we coping with all this change?

“There is a time for everything: …a time to plant and a time to uproot, … A time to tear down and a time to build.”

So says the Bible.

Right now in Wokingham it seems like we’re in a season where there’s lots of tearing down, but also a great deal of building up going on – all at the same time. Parts of the town people have known for generations are being torn down for redevelopment.

Elsewhere green spaces are being prepared for more new housing.

But it goes beyond bricks and mortar: the town as a whole is changing. For some this all feels exciting and new; for others it can seem disconcerting – disturbing even.

All this raises questions of what sort of a town we want to be. All extremes are probably undesirable: we can’t return to a supposed 1950s ideal where all the residents grew up here as did their parents and grandparents, and everyone knew everyone else; that’s not going to happen. Equally there are certain traditions – and landmarks – that give Wokingham its identity. We don’t want to lose those either.

There’s a tension, then, between resisting and embracing the change going on around us. Actually, ‘no change’ would be a bad sign, wouldn’t it? That would mean stagnation, lack of investment, Wokingham becoming a backwater. Whereas change can mean clearing the decks, a fresh approach, new investment, life and growth.

I guess what we need to do is to welcome new opportunities (and as good neighbours, we must certainly welcome new people) while investing intentionally in the things that we love and value about Wokingham as it has been passed to us. The Bible suggests that at times some tearing down is necessary.

But we can all play our part in building the community we want to see for the future.

The Revd Nick Hudson is a minister at Wokingham Baptist Church

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If aliens arrive here Climate change and its impact on air quality we’ll be the first to What else is hidden under muncipal stones? let you know

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OULD someone please explain to me the interweaving plot of the film Arrival. Given that our readership is fairly large, someone must surely have the answer.

It seems to be about a scientist, a vulnerable linguist and some typically macho, trigger-happy, tick-box-conditioned soldiers who repeatedly enter the innards of a giant gravity-free pickled cucumber hovering above the ground.

At first I thought it was a giant baguette but it was definitely a more gherkin-like spaceship which was occupied by a number of octopuses swimming in a mist.

The storyline revolves around (and ‘around’ is the right word), the linguist and her daughter and the scientist. Time is not linear here. Anyway, I’m not going to spoil the film for you by giving away the ending, except to say the aliens blow up the world and everyone dies. No that’s not true. It isn’t true at all. But it is true that no amount of Brexit or Mexican walls would have kept these aliens out.

Anyway, if anyone is going to make contact with aliens in the future I sincerely hope it will be an elite corps of Wokingham borough residents helping my friend Paul to build the first radio telescope in Wokingham borough gardens. It may not be the first radio telescope in the borough but I am claiming it is the first unless you would like to prove this is fake news.

The trial receiving dish will not be as big a Jodrell Bank. It will, in fact, be considerably smaller as it has to fit in his garden shed and is pure Blue Peteresque in its construction. The entire contraption, called a pyramidal horn will be made of polystyrene sheet and aluminium foil. This will make it light enough to fit on top of a computer controlled eight-inch reflecting telescope.

Prototype Unlike Jodrell Bank the pyramidal horn receiving dish is based on a Harvard prototype.

The horn is simple to fabricate compared to the typical parabolic antenna and so incredibly cheap he can make another if he accidently leaves it out overnight and a gust of wind blows it away.

For the electronically minded the horn will achieve a ‘gain’ of about 20dB and the receiver system will use low noise amplifiers, band-pass filters and a software-defined-radio USB receiver that provides digitized samples using a basic computer called a Raspberry Pie. The initial tests of the pyramidal horn will be to detect the strongest radio sources in the sky: the Milky Way and the Sun. If the signal peaks every 23 hours 56 seconds, and not every 24 hours this means it is associated with the stars and not the Sun – according to advice from an expert who did a PhD in astrophysics at Jodrell Bank.

The original plan was to turn Wokingham into a giant radio telescope by connecting together myriad discarded TV satellite dishes set up in people’s gardens through a more sophisticated computer. Such as interconnected array of old TV satellite dishes could actually see Wokingham borough residents contributing to interstellar knowledge.

Were the aliens in Arrival more friendly or more menacing than the aliens in Alien?

You will just have to rent the film to find out. In the meantime as a kind of insurance policy you might like to be involved in the world’s first Wokingham borough radio telescope project.

Nowhere else in the world will you find a Wokingham borough radio telescope project.

If you do please let the editor know.

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The Environmental Audit Committee’s report on Heathrow expansion is an important reminder that campaigners have been right all along; Heathrow expansion is still a climate-wrecking decision that is bad for the British people and the planet.

The report reveals that the Government is unable to demonstrate that it can mitigate the destructive environmental impacts of a new runway at Heathrow.

In fact, the report finds, the Government has paid little consideration to the triple threat of unacceptable environmental risks the prospect of a new runway brings with it.

A new runway will breach legal air pollution limits and further worsen congestion around Reading and an air quality crisis that the Government is already failing to tackle. And there is still no answer forthcoming on any plan to reduce even the current levels of air pollution which are responsible for the unnecessary deaths of 50,000 people in Britain every year.

Expansion will bust Britain’s carbon budgets and make a mockery of Theresa May’s legalbinding commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Astonishingly, the Government’s response appears to be its willingness to water down already dangerouslylax limits on aviation emissions, contrary to the recommendations of its own advisors.

For thousands of local residents, the report makes clear that expansion will worsen congestion and ensure the air they breathe becomes more toxic while the cacophony of noise pollution a third runway promises goes unaddressed.

There are no two ways about it; expansion is a disastrous decision for the people of Reading, Britain, and the planet. Britain’s ‘airport capacity crisis’ is, and always has been, a dangerous myth driven by corporate greed, not by actual need.

Rob White Green Party candidate for Reading East

Sorry seems to be the hardest word Last week’s letters pages saw Cllr Keith Baker, the Leader of Wokingham Borough and Woodley Town Council, write a letter headed ‘Gary I’m sorry’.

In it he said that “One of those quotes was about Cllr Cowan and was one made in one of those heated moments. On reflection I understand that the language used might cause offence to Cllr Cowan” What he fails to say is what he actually said about me and I quote it now. What Councillor Keith Baker actually said was “Most of what he says are out and out lies. He’s lying through his teeth and I’m quite happy to put that in the paper”.

His so-called apology uses the words “might cause offence”. Well it certainly did.

I considered his comments to be at least libellous.

One has to remember residents may well think there is no smoke without fire so such comments will seriously damage my reputation.

Is this how our residents expect the Councillor Keith Baker the leader of Wokingham Borough Council and Woodley Town Council should act.

Does such an outburst and personal attack by the Leader of two councils on a fellow Councillors reputation bring those institutions into disrepute?

I will leave it for the readers to make up their own mind.

Cllr Gary Cowan, Independent Borough Councillor for Arborfield

Resign and call a by-election I was disappointed to read the news that Cllr Ian Pittock has decided to leave the Conservatives and join the Lib Dems so soon after being elected.

He claims that he has had a difference of opinion with the Conservative Group for some time but he was happy to put himself up as a Conservative Candidate less than a year ago and promote the Manifesto of the Conservative Group.

I suppose by now we should cease to be surprised at the ineptitude of Wokingham Borough Council.

The latest Shute End farce, discovered only as the result of a Freedom of Information request, unmasked the outragous sums of money doled out to interim staff (£900 wages a day to council temp worker, The Wokingham Paper, March 16).

This raised the question of just what else may be hidden under municipal stones.

The pathetic whingeing and whining of local councillors that they are being hard done by as the result of underfunding by central Government would bear more credence if they did not continually squander so much taxpayers’ money

In his resignation speech he mentions his disagreement with the government on Brexit perhaps this is the real reason he has defected. He is unable to accept the democratic result of the referendum, a position taken by his new friends on the council.

Ian stood as a Conservative and was elected as a Conservative. The people of Finchampstead South voted to be represented by a Conservative Councillor.

As an ex military man he should now do the honourable thing and resign his seat and stand as a Lib Dem in the ensuing by-election.

We will then see if he was originally elected based on his personality or because he was supported by the Conservative Party.

Peter Harper, A Finchampstead Resident

Savings on waste contracts At the Wokingham Borough Council meeting last Thursday, March 23. I asked the Executive member for the Environment to explain why there were planned savings of £1m in the waste and recycling budget in 2019-20, I was especially concerned as we will have to collect from many more new houses by that time which obviously increases our costs.

The answer that I received was amazing. I was told that the “savings were aspirational”. I wonder how much more of the budget is also “aspirational” as far as the Conservatives are concerned?

The Lib Dems have described the recent budget as very risky, borrowing is increasing from £80m at the end of 2017 to £271m by 2019-20. When we hear that savings are aspirational it makes us even more nervous.

No wonder the Conservative leader chose to be absent from the budget meeting on holiday, when everything goes pear shaped in the future he can say, “nothing to do with me”!

Cllr Clive Jones Liberal Democrat spokesperson for the Environment, Wokingham Borough Council

on unjustified, self-aggrandising and wasteful indulgences.

Maybe the council should begin by cutting out all the deadwood, but then, if they did that there would be few, if any, of them left.

Problem solved!

J W Blaney, Wokingham

Thanks for your support for bike ride I am writing to thank you and your readers for supporting the British Heart Foundation London to Reading Bike Ride supported by Tesco and Jaffa on 18 March 2017. With over 1,900 taking part we yet again enjoyed a successful year, so thank you to everyone that signed up.

There’s just one more very important step that we need all of those involved to take.

Whilst we are thrilled with the turnout again for this event, what allows the BHF to come back year after year is the money that the event raises; money which funds pioneering research in the fight against heart disease – a disease which affects over 15,000 living in Reading every year.

Heart FM Berkshire was delighted to be involved in the event this year, and we had so much fun on the day.

We took on this challenge with a rickshaw – it wasn’t easy tackling the 40-mile route but the effort involved has helped us raise awareness for the BHF. Thank you to everyone who has already sent in their sponsorship money.

So far the event has raised nearly £120,000, but we know there are still donations still to come. We are urging everyone that worked so hard to tackle the 40 mile course to make their achievement count by sending in their sponsorship money to help fight against the UK’s single biggest killer – coronary heart disease.

The best way to raise money is to set up an online fundraising page, or should you need any more sponsorship forms, please contact us on 0845 130 8663 or email events@bhf.org.uk.

The BHF are excited to announce that the date for next year’s event will be 24 March 2018 so why not sign up early to secure your place?

Entry fees will be £15 and you can register by visiting www.bhf.org.uk/events or calling the events team on 0845 130 8663.

Matt and Michelle, Heart FM Berkshire

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Send your thoughts to letters@wokinghampaper.co.uk Policemen let down by failure The police have been let down by failure from our prime minister, who is the former home secretary, and by the current home secretary Amber Rudd and by most politicians across Westminister at the House of Commons and in the Lords.

They have also been let down by the commissioner of New Scotland Yard, the sitting mayor of London and not forgetting security minister Ben Wallace MP and Nigel Evans.

With growing knife crime on every street and place in Britain. the home office and police of all forces cannot cope because of stringent cuts by former home security Mrs Theresa May of £2billion.

No wonder action cannot be taken and makes security bad with these budgets police not armed in the correct places and if they are, should not be too trigger happy as the USA. The public should and must be heard if the Members of Parliament keep saying Parliament is for democracy – do the people, the British citizens, believe MPs? Most of all, cuts or no cuts, why do police say they try to protect the public and are let on to the dangerous streets without “stab vests on” hence a dead policeman at parliament these “stab vests” should be worn all the time if the police want to look after citizens and visitors in UK. The politicians that have power over the police and chiefs that lead the police have all ended up with egg on their faces.

Where is the sense in their bad training with all police forces.

No stab vests and knife crime continues to rise.

Victor Rones, Advocate for real justice, Bracknell

Sexual abuse in the Thames Valley While the Thames Valley Police recently revealed that seven children a day (700 of these a year under 10) are sexually abused in the Thames Valley alone – a rise of 37% compared to 2015 – and national reports continue to reveal that almost 60% of all adult mental health problems in the UK first surfaced after the individuals had suffered sexual abuse as a child or/and adolescent, it is unbelievable that no specialist public services or funding are commissioned for such victims locally and no NHS specialist child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) services are commissioned locally either – our local commissioners collectively claiming –in writing –that they need not provide such services as – and I quote –”being sexually abused is not a mental illness”.

Unbelievable did I write? Sadly, as a long time (totally unsuccessful local campaigner) it is all too believable.

Paul Farmer, Reading

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Ian Pittock joins the Lib Dems – your views

NELLIE KNOWS Nellie Williams www.nelliepompoms.co.uk Road rage First up a big thank you to those who read last week’s column and contacted me about Roger the Road Rager.

I’ve got over it now but I do worry that he is a naturally aggressive person and shouldn’t be behind a wheel of a large car hurling abuse when he is clearly in the wrong.

I spoke to someone who said that a) it could have escalated if I was someone else and b) imagine if his words tipped someone over the edge.

Food for thought.

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Last week, we broke the news that Conservative councillor Ian Pittock resigned from the party at the end of the council meeting.

You were quick to add your views on our Facebook page, The Wokingham Paper.

Here are some of your comments:  It would be good to see more Councillors standing up for basic principles of transparency and honesty rather than just following orders Paul Counihan  Which others do you think would stand up for their beliefs?

Jade Burrell  There are some good Conservative Cllrs but they are far outnumbered by those that do not demonstrate such values and principles. It feels like this is endemic within WBC. Paul Counihan

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 Am I being cynical for thinking it’s because he knows it’s the only way he will keep his position?

Nadia Lewis

democracy should look like.

Juliet Sherratt  Wokingham’s Conservative council is crumbling - hooray!

Rick Lay

 No I think he can see the writing on the wall for the Tories and has weaselled his way over Jeremy Allison

 About time

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 Jumping from a sinking ship....

Nothing to do with beliefs or he would have done it ages ago...

Carolyn Charles  How can you trust someone who can’t commit?

Ken Gaines  I have heard about the way the council clique operate from several sources now. I feel they should be held to account and investigated. This is not what

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 Support the Lib Dems in supporting the Tories, like last time? No thanks.

Rick Lay  I think you could argue Labour have taken that position now supporting the government...

Becky Eytle  That’s some fine mental gymnastics Becky.

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Speaking of food I had a Thermomix demonstration last week and was prepared to be sceptical but in fact I was completely blown away.

Now, I enjoy cooking but I’ve not got the time nor inclination for gadgets so the Thermomix is right up my street.

One machine does everything and, what’s more, it cleans itself.

Within an hour I had made bread rolls, red pepper soup and a mixed fruits sorbet which we enjoyed all the more as the kitchen wasn’t a crazy messy room.

They’re an expensive piece of kit but oh my days they are worth every penny.

I am well and truly converted.

If you want to know more then get in touch with their office and book your demo, I promise you’ll be impressed.

A visit to Neverland I was also wildly impressed when I had an Environ skin analysis session at Neverland Skincare ( http:// www.neverlandskincare.co.uk/) with Melissa Wallace.

There I was saying “oh yes I wash, tone, cleanse, exfoliate and look after my skin” when the results showed a different story.

Instead of OK looking skin on the surface the analysis showed I had dry skin, sun damage and blemishes.

It’s never too late to look after your skin so I’m making a few changes and hope that the next analysis in three months will show happier and healthier skin.

Time to find the sunscreen These include brownies, scouts, music lessons, drama clubs and a wide variety of sports clubs.

They are looking for volunteers with a few hours to spare each week to support these children to get involved.

No previous experience is required.

Of course with the clocks going forward (hands up who’s still got clocks to change) and spring now sprung it’s time to chuck out last year’s dormant sunscreen and start again.

I’m always blasé about best before dates but with suncream I’m not.

Having spent time in Australia with my step sister who shouted “Slip, Slap, Slop” every time I went out of the door I am a fervent slatherer of suncream.

I’m also an ardent fan of Maui Jim sunglasses (available from Leightons) as I can’t bear squinting and now I’ve had my skin analysed I need to do all I can not to introduce any (more) lines to my face!

Holidays are coming…  To find out more about the event and volunteering in general, please visit our website www. volunteercentrewokingham.org.uk or call us on 0118 977 0749 or email volunteer@wok-vol.org.uk

The best thing about this week is that the schools break up on Friday and hurrah no school run or Sunday panics for two whole weeks!

So and without further ado I must double check all the clocks and cancel the stupidly early alarm clocks.

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THEO’S THOUGHTS with Theo Hunt

In-depth debate for EU parliament

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N Friday, March 17, I went, with Maiden Erlegh School, to a European Union Youth Parliament Debate; at the Student Union of Oxford University.

It was a brilliant day of discussion and thought.

This is what happened throughout the six hours that we were there.

Each school team (seven teams composed of eight members) represented a committee either ‘proposing’, or ‘opposing’ a certain resolution, targeting issues impacting the EU today.

Maiden Erlegh (‘The Committee for Environment, Health, and Food Affairs’) was proposing greater EU powers to both increase mental health awareness, and pressure/ encourage business and Governments into doing more for citizens with mental ill-health.

But we weren’t limited to arguing during our own debate!

Each Resolution had several rounds of ‘Open Debate’, where anyone could challenge, question, or support a proposed Resolution.

This would be preceded and succeeded by short speeches from the proposition, and opposition, committee, encouraging the Members to vote ‘for’ or ‘against’ the motion.

The Open Debate was where the chamber was liveliest.

Teams would frequently attack points made by other committees, or throw a curveball question at the proposing team, while trying to get their point across in an irrevocable way.

Particularly memorable was the debate over whether EU-made arms should be sold to Saudi Arabia, knowing that they would be used to commit atrocities in Yemen.

Whilst yours truly was campaigning ‘For’ – bringing up points that we were allowing massacres to happen, and advocating human rights abuses by allowing the sale of arms – ‘Against’ raised some engaging challenges: ‘Couldn’t Saudi Arabia simply buy weapons from China and Russia?’ and, ‘At least we can make money and jobs from selling firearms’.

Unfortunately, the Resolution was NOT passed, with a majority of four votes.

The votes were generally close.

Almost all of the resolutions were blocked, some because people didn’t agree with their aims, others because the proposed measures were weak and ineffective.

This meant that it was a success for the ME team when our Resolution was passed by 42 votes to 36! (We did, admittedly, exchange votes with another team).

Unfortunately, we failed to make it through to the next round – the National competition – but it was a brilliant learning curve about the viewpoints and opinions of others, as well as being a generally fun day!

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Pupils’ artwork to go on show in London

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There are also plans being developed to display them in Reading this autumn.

The schools’ participation in the project was brokered by Reading UK CIC as part of the legacy of Reading’s Year of Culture, and 2017’s cultural focus on the importance of the Thames and other waterways in Reading.

Zsuzsi Lindsay, on behalf of Reading UK CIC, said: “This is a fabulous opportunity for budding young artists to get involved in a truly international art project and see their work displayed for the

world to see on London’s South Bank.

“We hope it is the start of great new relationships between Reading and Nepalese schools, founded on the importance to Reading of our own Nepalese community.”

Totally Thames is running for the whole month of September, and the pupils’ works will be displayed from August 16 until September 30 on the South Bank riverside walkway.

A smaller scale exhibition will be on display in City Hall throughout September.

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Schools get sowing for growing contest

PUPILS from three Woodley secondary schools will have their artwork put on display in London this August.

Students from Maiden Erlegh School, Bulmershe School and Waingels College will team up with several other schools from the area for the Rivers of the World exhibition, which will be on show on the South Bank of the River Thames as part of the Totally Thames season.

Rivers of the World is the Thames Festival Trust’s flagship art and education project delivered in partnership with the British Council, and sees British schools link with schools in Nepal to study the history, culture and environment of their local river, or a river in their partner country, to produce huge artworks inspired from what they have learned.

As well as being displayed along the River Thames, the works of art will also be reproduced for other riverside venues in the participating countries.

By PETYA AND TOM L from Anning Class, Evendons School

ON MONDAY, March 13, Evendons Primary School went to Lesley Sears Playing field to do a colour run to raise money for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund) We all had clean white T-shirts on but the T-shirts weren’t going to stay white for much longer.

First, we excitedly walked to the Lesley Sears Field which is close to our school.

Then, we did a quick warm-up in the sunshine to get us ready for the running. Next, the Year 3 and 4 children jogged to the starting line so we could start off the colour run.

After we had set off everyone else joined in. Everyone ran really well, even the reception children did at least six laps which is a long way (each lap was about 400m).

When we finished the first lap we were already covered in colourful paints.

The adults were spraying us with paint as we ran round, the colours were: orange ,pink, blue, yellow, green and red.

Lots of the parents came to watch and cheer us on. When we went back to school we were very colourful and exhausted.

It was brilliant fun and we hope to do a colour run again next year!

So far we have raised £2,938 which is 80% of our target for JDRF.

Jack and Tegwyn look very colourful after Evendons Primary School colour run

STUDENTS from five borough schools are joining others across the country in a bid to grow runner beans.

The pupils are taking part in Sow & Grow, an initiative set up

by Innocent drinks and a not-forprofit organisation GIY (Grow It Yourself).

The aim is to get children away from screens and into the garden, learning more about where food comes from and have fun growing their own vegetables.

Schools taking part are The Colleton Primary, Charvil Pre School, Woodley CofE, Park Day Nursery and Loddon Primary – across the country there will be 1,384 schools in the scheme.

Michael Kelly, founder of social enterprise GIY, said: “It’s a fact that food growers have a better understanding of nutrition and eat more fruit and veg.

“Over the years we have repeatedly seen how even the simplest food-growing experience can make children passionate about what they eat, and help them develop a greater understanding and ‘food empathy’.

“That’s why we’re so happy to see schools in the South East involved.”  For more details and to chart progress, log on to www. innocentsowandgrow.com

Pupils to travel in style after arrival of new minibus

By GEMMA DAVIDSON gdavidson@wokinghampaper.co.uk

CHILDREN at a school in Warfield will now be transported to events in style after raising enough money to buy a minibus.

Meadowbrook School, in Malt Hill, took receipt of the 17-seater school bus earlier this week, and it’s already been given the thumbs up by pupils.

The purchase of the bus was the result of a number of fundraising activities carried out by the school,

including an ice cream sale, an end of term Garden Party, and a sponsored headshave by one of the parents.

Headteacher, Serna Gunn said “I’m so delighted we have finally got our own school bus.

“We will now be able to take our children out on even more trips spontaneously as well as planned excursions such as the weekly swimming lessons.

“The teachers have so many ideas that we’ve even had to make a rota so that each class gets its turn.”

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By PHIL CREIGHTON news@wokinghampaper.co.uk A TWO bedroom apartment in a gated development near Wokingham town centre has come onto the rental market through Martin & Co. The modern, light and spacious apartment has allocated parking and is available furnished or unfurnished. Pets will be considered for the right tenant.

Situated on the first floor, and accessible via a lift, the apartment has an intercom to enable access to the security gates.

All the accommodation is on the first floor.

The 12ft 2in by 7ft 7in kitchen/ breakfast room has built-in contemporary units, granite work surfaces and a underslung 1½ bowl stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap.

There is also an integrated fridge/ freezer, washer-dryer and dishwasher.

The 17ft 11in by 9ft 9in living room has dual aspect windows and downlights,plus sockets for a BT landline and TV. The master bedroom is 21ft 9in by 8ft 7in and boasts an ensuite bathroom, a sliding mirror-fronted double wardrobe and a TV point.

The second bedroom is 14ft 1in by 7ft 10in and has a TV point.

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Outside, there are secure grounds with mature planting, making it the perfect place for spending a quiet summer’s evening.

There is an allocated parking space and visitor parking available. A bin store and communal access to an outside water tap and power for car cleaning is also available.

It is close to local schools and within walking distance of Wokingham town centre and in council tax band D. It is offered to the rental market for £1, 225 per month and is available from

the beginning of May. Mike Townend, managing director of Martin & Co’s Wokingham branch, said: “This is a great home in a great location.

“Being so close to the train station and the town centre makes it ideal for commuters, but smaller families may also enjoy its proximity to local schools.

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Tea dance will help Royal Voluntary Service NEW homeowners at one of the borough’s most recently opened developments are invited to town for a tea dance.

The vintage affair, which will include dance moves from the 1950s and 60s is to be held at Queen’s Gate, the new McCarthy and Stone development on Wellington Road, opposite Wokingham’s railway station.

The fun event will take place on Thursday, April 6 from 2pm to 4pm and aims to raise money for the Royal Voluntary Service.

In return for a donation, there will be a glass of fizz and a tempting selection of cakes; and entertainment will be provided by Lindy Hop dancers who will help the event to go with a swing.

Wokingham’s Deputy Mayor Cllr Rob Stanton and Deputy Mayoress, Mrs Maureen Stanton will also be in attendance on the day as Guests of Honour.

The celebrations are taking place to mark McCarthy and Stone’s 40th anniversary and has the aim of raising over £130,000 to support the RVS. Eleanor Bird, Concierge at Queen’s Gate, said: “We are really looking forward to hosting our vintage tea party in aid of Royal Voluntary Service. It is a fantastic cause and we are committed to helping the charity continue its work enriching the lives of older people and their families through their volunteers.

“Join us on Thursday 6th April for the celebrations as we raise a glass to the last 40 years at McCarthy and Stone, and look forward to the next. Anyone is welcome and it should be a fantastic event!”

Big start to new retirement complex in town centre ALMOST £9million worth of property has been sold at a new development being built in Wokingham.

Renaissance Retirement said it has recorded its best sales performance in a month at its new site, Fleur de Lis, in Wiltshire Road.

So far, it has sold 18 apartments off-plan, which equates to over £8.9m in value.

Now 60% per cent of its apartments have now been sold off plan since it started selling in February this year.

Construction work at the prime site in Wokingham is on schedule for occupation later in the year says developers Renaissance Retirement.

The 33 luxury apartments will provide an exceptional standard of independent living for those considering downsizing from a larger family home.

Located five minutes’ walk from the centre of town, the spacious one and two bedroom apartments will be impeccably finished with contemporary interiors, whilst owners will also have access to an owners’ lounge and guest suite, which will be available to visiting friends and relatives.

Some of the apartments will also feature stylish mezzanine levels providing up to 1,500 sq ft of living space.

Renaissance Retirement’s new business consultant Louis Penny is joined by reservees Mr and Mrs Way at the site of the new development

Prices range from £360,000 for a one-bed to £680,000 for a twobed mezzanine.

Matt Smith, sales manager at Renaissance Retirement, comments: “It’s a hugely encouraging start and shows the demand for this type of luxury flats for the over 60s.

“We believe we have the number one location for retirement living in Wokingham.

It’s a stunning site and the apartments will be a very high specification and finish.”

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Lions’ grants to help WADE and Crossroads Care Wokingham Lions

TWO local charities, WADE and Crossroads, have each received donations of £1,000 from the Wokingham Lions Club.

Cheques were presented at the Lions’ monthly business meeting on March 22.

“We are very pleased to support these worthy charities. WADE provides support and social activities for the elderly, and Crossroads helps unpaid carers and the people they care for,” said Bob Westerman, president, Wokingham Lions Club.

Jackie Wilson from WADE said: “WADE is very grateful to the Wokingham Lions for this very generous donation, and for their continued support of our Day Centre. The Centre has supported the elderly population of Wokingham for more than 40 years, and the need for it now is greater than ever, with the rising elderly population. It provides help with the ever increasing problem of isolation among the elderly, and also respite for carers. The money will be used to purchase some much needed curtains for the dining room, which will help to keep the room insulated.”

Crossroads Care Wokingham, established in 1994, is a local carer charity based at Wokingham Community Hospital.

Catherina Tam, Chief Executive Officer, Crossroads Care Wokingham, said: “Crossroads provide home-based respite breaks to support unpaid carers and the people they care for. Its aim is to reduce the physical and mental stresses of the unpaid carers, by taking over their caring responsibilities for a few hours a week.

Meaningful activities are provided to their cared-for person, according to his/her ability and interest. We are extremely grateful for the kind donation of £1,000 from the Wokingham Lions Club. The money will be used to provide precious ‘Me Time’ to the carers.”

For more information on the Wokingham Lions Club, visit the website, www. wokinghamlions.org.uk or call 0845 833 7384. For information on WADE, visit www.wadecentre. org.uk. Website for Crossroads is www. wokinghamcrossroads.org.

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The Royal County of Berkshire Yacht Club THE Royal County of Berkshire Yacht Club, based in Bracknell is a local virtual Yacht Club, set up almost 25 years ago for the benefit of their members.

Their founder members all met at their local RYA evening class and realised that now having the formal qualifications, they need to get in some practical skills! The rest is history.

Their mixed membership of more than 100, are located in Berkshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire plus further afield and are out on the water most months of the year on yachts that they charter. The not-for-profit club has a strong focus on training both on and off the water and also raises a lot of money for worthy charities, including the RNLI each year.

To recruit new members they liaise with RYA approved sail training organisations / establishments to provide an outlet for some vital practical practice and expertise once RYA Theory qualifications have been achieved.

The Woodley Women’s Club presented a cheque for £1,000 to the work of Woodley First Responders to help them with their work

WOODLEY WOMEN’S CLUB ON MONDAY, MARCH 20, 73 members of the Woodley women’s Club attended the 58th AGM at the Oakwood Centre.

The meeting began with our Chairlady welcoming everyone to the meeting. This was followed by the presentation of a cheque for £1,000 to the Woodley First Responders which was money raised over the year by the club through fundraising events such as Table Top Sales under the Pagoda in

Woodley Precinct and a cake stall at the Woodley Carnival.

Anne Yousif, Team Co-Coordinator of the Woodley First Responders gave a talk on the organisation.

They are a team of six volunteers who dedicate their spare time to Being on Call and work in partnership with the Ambulance Service responding to 999 calls in Woodley and surrounding areas to deliver immediate care. Their training is provided by SCAS. The meeting continued with the Secretary’s report stating that once again we had enjoyed another successful and enjoyable year.

Each year, they have a New Members Evening and this year is no exception. It will be on Tuesday, April 4, at 8.30pm to be held at The Downshire Golf Club, Easthampstead Park, Wokingham RG40 3DH. MIKE SEATON www.therbyc.co.uk

Wokingham Horticultural Association BECCA FLINTHAM of RowanLeaf, on Tuesday, March 14, gave an interesting and well-illustrated talk on Food For Free – Wild Food Foraging to the members of the Wokingham Horticultural Association (WHA), describing the leaves, flowers and fruits which can be harvested in each season.

Drawing on her years of experience as an environmental educator Becca discussed guidelines for responsible and sustainable foraging; what plants are specially protected, such as wild orchids, and cautioned her audience of some of the seeds, plants and fungi that can injure or are poisonous. Becca also suggested and showed an example of a Foraging Map for a local area.

Becca’s lecture notes included recipes for Elderflower Cordial, Stinging Nettle Soup and Wild Greens Sandwich Spread.

The flower of the month was won by Josie Lawrence’s perfect white camellia.

Our next event is an evening talk on Tuesday,

She spoke of the many interesting speakers we had enjoyed plus the excellent trips our Social Secretary had arranged for us.

She also spoke of the Christmas Party at the Sonning Golf Club, the Birthday Party and our visit to the Mill at Sonning.

A Vote of Thanks was given to the committee by one of our founder members, thanking them for all their hard work they had put in over the last year and then it moved on to the Election of Officers.

As there were no other nominations for positions, the current

committee were all voted back on.

There was a vote to decide which charity we would be supporting for the coming year and The Foxitron Machine for the Royal Berkshire Hospital by far received the most votes. This is a portable X-Ray machine to image specimens from biopsies when breast cancer is suspected. This image can be looked at immediately after the biopsy.

The evening finished with us all enjoying a glass of wine and nibbles.

Our next speaker will be Tony Boffin who will talk about the Life of Lord Nuffield.

MOLLY CHEESMAN

April 11 at 7.45pm at the Methodist Church in Rose Street, Wokingham.

It’s about organically grown vegetables for the small garden and is being presented by Ray Broughton.

NIGEL BOOTH, COMMITTEE MEMBER, WOKINGHAM HORTICULTURAL Mark Ashwell presents a Community Cash Token Wokingham Evening ASSOCIATION Townswomen’s Guild

Wokingham Evening Townswomen’s Guild MARCH has been a busy month.

First and foremost we held our AGM and presented a cheque for £765 to the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice.

All the committee have agreed to stay on for another year but our final numbers are likely to be down. On a more positive note we had a new member join us so we hope this will be the start of many more ladies wanting to join our friendly organisation.

Cllr Mark Ashwell then spoke to the meeting regarding the Regeneration of Wokingham.

Members asked a lot of questions and it is clear that although there is going to be a lot of upheaval for a few years that the final finished new look Wokingham will have a number of

independent shops as well as brand names we will all know.

Mark Ashwell then surprised us by telling us that we had one of our Community Tokens drawn

by The Wokingham Paper and he presented us with a £200 cheque to support our Guild.

As you can imagine we were very pleased to accept this donation.

On Saturday, March 25, we held our Spring Buffet quiz.

All 80 tickets were sold and we had a very good evening with a ploughman’s supper.

Our new charity, which was voted on at the AGM, is the Thames Valley Air Ambulance and they will benefit from some of the profits raised during the evening.

To find out more about us contact Jill on 0118 989 2649 or visit www.the-tg.com/Guild/ wokingham-evening/721.aspx JULIA TREDWELL CHAIRMAN

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INGHEALTHY Choir director Dorian passed away on Tuesday 21st March after suffering a major stroke.

He underwent some specialist surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, London, but lost his battle after a few days in intensive care.

He was 65 years old.

In 2001, Dorian Edwards suffered a brain hemorrhage.

From the outside Dorian looked no different but he’d suffered an injury to his brain that hindered his concentration and left him very tired and physically drained.

He was unable to return to his regular work. As someone at the top of his career this was a difficult place to be, however Dorian found solace in song. He started working with Wokingham Salvation Army singing as a group with the parishioners each week.

As he learnt more about the positive physical and mental effects of singing, he encouraged other people to feel the benefits too. He decided to gather some friends together in Wokingham town hall to sing, socialise and feel good about themselves.

SingHealthy Community choir was born.

Dorian started SingHealthy with just 10 people meeting up and learning three-part harmonies. He used his experience in promotion and marketing to get airtime on BBC Radio Berkshire, leaflet drops and challenging everyone he ever met to come and give it a go.

The choir in Wokingham outgrew the Town Hall very quickly with a regular weekly attendance was in excess of 70 people.

Not content with just one choir, Dorian branched out to two further communities and created the same vibe and brilliant results.

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had over 300 members.

As anyone going will tell you, the most important aspect to any choir meeting was the tea break, the social aspect was as important as the singing for Dorian. Being there, being part of the team, and singing as yourself was his sole aim.

Dorian would have referred to this as the ‘soul’ aim.

In 2014, he challenged himself to the performance of his life.

As a mark of remembrance for all the servicemen around the world, and commemoration of the First World War, Dorian staged the Armed Man (a Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins) concert at The Hexagon, Reading.

This was 18 months of hard work for 150 singers and 100 young musicians from Berkshire Youth Orchestra.

The spectacular event was a sell-out event and raised over £10,000 for charity. It was his dream to perform this beautiful music and it was performed by a group of individuals who had the courage to believe in their own ability and who believed in Dorian.

Dorian suffered his fair share of adversity in life.

He battled his mental health problems a heart attack and previous stroke.

He will be missed by many people, not least by his choirs and those who knew him best as the loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle and brother.

Dorian would bring laughter to every occasion but most importantly a song.

Dorian’s funeral will be held at the Salvation Army Church, Chalfont Close, Lower Earley, RG6 5HZ on Thursday, April 13, at 11am.

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How to change your name witnessed and enrolled in the central office of the Supreme Court) A child’s name can be changed at any time, within certain limitations, provided it is not being done to deceive or defraud another person.

There is no legal procedure which must be followed in order to change a child’s name; providing all the people who need to give their consent have done so. The parent simply starts using the new name.

A child’s forename or surname can be changed, and names can be added or rearranged. However, the details on a child’s birth certificate cannot be changed, except in limited circumstances.

A parent may need evidence that a child’s name has been changed and the relevant people have consented.

For example, in order to use a child’s new name on official documents such as examination certificates, a school may require evidence of the other

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F YOU would like to be known by a different name you can change your name at any time, provided you do not intend to deceive or defraud another person.

There is no legal procedure which you must follow in order to change your name. You simply start using the new name. You can change your forename or surname, add names or rearrange your existing names.

Although there is no legal way to change your name, you may want evidence (for example, when applying for a passport) that you have changed your name.

However, you cannot change details on your birth certificate, except in limited circumstances. The evidence needed varies, depending on the purpose, and can include:  A letter from a responsible person (GP, solicitor, Minister, MP, etc.)  A public announcement (advert in local or national paper)  A statutory declaration (signed and witnessed by a solicitor or a JP)  A deed poll (document signed and

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parent’s consent or a copy of any court order. Although a client is not obliged to obtain this evidence, guidance to schools means that although the child can be called by their new name, without further evidence the school will not register the child under the new name for official purposes.

Children under 16 cannot choose their own names. However, they could apply for and may be granted a court order if they are of sufficient maturity and understand the consequences of what they are seeking to do.

Young people who are 16- or 17-years-old can usually choose the name they wish to be known by (unless they are the subject of Children Act proceedings which prevent this), but they can only register any change of name by deed if they have parental consent to do so.

A parent can change the name of a child or young person under 16 without their agreement, within certain

limitations. However, if the child or young person under 16 objects to the change of their name and they are of sufficient maturity and understand the consequences of what their parent is seeking to do, they could apply for and may be granted a court order to stop the change of their name. A parent who wished to register a change of name by deed for a young person aged 16 or 17 would need their consent in writing.

Once the child’s name has been changed it can be used for all purposes, for example, at school and registering with a GP.  You can get help, information and advice from your local Citizens Advice or visit www. citizensadvicewokingham.org.uk or contact Citizens Advice Wokingham at Second Floor, Waterford House, Erftstadt Court, Wokingham RG40 2YF. Tel: 0300 330 1189. email: public@citizensadvicewokingham. org.uk

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Everystepcounts

HEALTH MATTERS

Personal fitness with Chris Hunt

Try the 18/6 lifestyle plan CHRIS HUNT is back

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OW have your happiness levels been this week then?

Did you find the happiness tips I gave you last week helpful? Get in contact with me...

I love hearing how my column is helping you move FORWARD in life.

Being happy should be a goal that everyone has in their life. I honestly don’t think you can be too happy.

Take last weekend for example, it was Mother’s Day on Sunday and we went to Pizza Express as a family – we all had fun.

Saturday evening I went to a charity boxing night for a friend who was competing. He didn’t win but the heart he showed was truly awesome and I think next time he will have the win for certain.

On Sunday, I went to see Craig David in London with my wife and a few friends... he was so good and I could literally feel the endorphins flying round my body during and after the concert. Endorphins are linked with exercise and Endorphins also trigger a hugely positive feeling in the body, similar to that of morphine.

For example, the feeling that follows a run or good workout is often described as “euphoric.” That feeling, known as a “runner’s high,” can be accompanied by having a positive and energizing outlook on life. In this instance the Endorphins were being released because I was doing something I loved with great friends... for the record, go and see him live, the O2 was bouncing all night.

Finding the right balance for your eating plans is important if you want to stay on top of your goals Picture: Naama y.m./ freeimages.com

This week I want to talk to you about Intermittent Fasting which I mentioned two weeks ago. I am a man of my word and, as promised, I want to talk about what it entails and how it could be of BENEFIT to you.

I am going to keep it simple and straight to the point today.

When you have finished reading today you will have answers to these questions:  What is Intermittent Fasting?  What can Intermittent Fasting help with?  Would IF suit my lifestyle and environment?

Intermittent Fasting firstly is just one strategy you can use to own the pillar of NUTRITION. There are many strategies you can use and ultimately it comes down to choosing a strategy that works with your lifestyle and your personal preferences.

Intermittent Fasting is not a diet

as such, it’s just a set PATTERN OF EATING. IF doesn’t change what you eat but it does change when you eat.

The main reason you would use this strategy is to lose body fat however it can be used for other goals too.

In a nutshell, IF is when you fast for a longer period after Dinner.

There are many models for IF but the most well known one is where you follow the 18/6 protocol.

Let’s say you ate dinner at 6pm, the next meal would be 18 hours later at noon the next day.

You then have six hours to eat your daily allowance of food and then fast again for six hours.

This effectively means you skip breakfast and then start again at lunch.

Essentially it is an EXTENDED FAST as the term breakfast comes from BREAKING THE FAST. You just eat slightly later in the day.

If you struggle with time in the mornings and managing your time before work and school runs for example then this could really work for you. I have a few of my clients on this strategy at the moment but it won’t always be the BEST option for everyone.

If you struggle with snacking after dinner and before work then this can work for you as the rules are quite rigid. You are not allowed to eat outside the protocol times so knowing this can help with the mental strength sometimes when you fancy that snack.

Clearly a side factor is that if you only have six hours to eat then it is highly likely you will eat less than if you have 12 hours to eat.

I have used it before and found it very EFFECTIVE. I have also tried it before with some clients and found that it didn’t work. It all comes down to the individual....YOU. So ask yourself a few questions after reading this?  Does it sound like IF could work for me?  Do I rush a round in the morning and eat breakfast on the go?  What’s my goal?  Should I explore the strategy that is IF further?

Answer those questions and if you feel that IF is something you would like to explore further, read around the subject area or even better CONTACT a professional and coach like myself and we can explore the area together.

Working with someone who has experience in that area saves time, money and effort in the long run.

It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Just because we have been brought up being told we have to eat breakfast doesn’t actually mean it is the best solution for you.

I only touched briefly on IF today as it really is a strategy with many options but when it comes to your HEALTH its worth exploring all the options isn’t it?

There are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still.

Have a great Thursday and own whatever it is you decide to focus on today.

For me that is going to be about being the best parent, husband and coach I can be... more on that next week

Defibrillators outside stations will save lives Fire stations across the Royal County are installing life-saving equipment. GEMMA DAVIDSON explains

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IFE-SAVING equipment that can be used by the public in the event of an emergency have been rolled out across the county’s fire stations.

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) has teamed up with South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) to install 18 Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) outside all fire stations across Berkshire in an effort to help save the lives of people who suffer a cardiac arrest.

To date, 10 PADs have been fitted to stations, with the remaining eight being installed over the next two months.

The Automated External Defibrillator (AED) will be located outside the front of the station in a secure cabinet and will be

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service will install defibrillators ouotside all its stations

available to the public at all times, in the event of a cardiac arrest occurring in the area. If someone suffers a cardiac arrest, the machine can deliver an electrical current through the chest, which aims to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm, allowing it to pump again.

The PAD is designed to be safe and easy-to-use, with clear labels and activated voice instructions to

guide the user whilst they wait for an ambulance to arrive.

The defibrillator detects the heart’s rhythm and will not deliver a shock unless one is needed.

In an emergency, proper use of the devices, in conjunction with the ambulance will offer the casualty the best chance of survival.

In an emergency, if appropriate, a 999 operator will direct the caller to the nearest defibrillator.

Defibrillators can also be easily located online via SCAS’s ‘Save a Life’ application which can be accessed by smartphone or tablet.

Neil Carter, Group Manager at RBFRS, said: “We are delighted to be installing the Public Access Defibrillators outside every fire station in Royal Berkshire.

“Our stations are naturally situated in the most populated areas, providing ideal locations for the devices in the heart of communities. The defibrillators will be available to the public 24 hours a day and not just when the fire station is occupied.

“We’ve worked closely with SCAS to identify the most suitable public access box to purchase and we are pleased to be able to provide these to the community.”

Steve Cartwright, Community Responder Trainer from SCAS, said: “It is our vision in SCAS to have everyone in the South Central region within eight minutes of a defibrillator wherever they live or work. This latest initiative in partnership with Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is another step forward towards this goal.

“When someone suffers a cardiac arrest, for every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation their chances of survival reduce by 10%; so in a short space of time their chances of recovery can slip away completely. SCAS has the highest percentage of all ambulance trusts in England of cardiac arrest patients surviving to leaving hospital and getting more publicly accessible defibrillators installed across our region will help us save even more lives.”

with Nicola Strudley

New NHS target aims to improve your experience of leaving hospital

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AST week the Department of Health published the updated NHS Mandate 2017-18, which sets out the Government’s aims for the NHS for the year ahead.

Included in the Mandate is a new target to reduce to 3.5% the number of instances where a patient is ready to leave hospital for home, or another service, but is unable to do so.

At Healthwatch hospital discharge is a topic that we hear about regularly; Patients that are medically fit to be discharged may be kept waiting for medication or adaptations that need to be made to their house, the timely involvement of other professionals not being coordinated, a place in a care home not finalised, a package of home care not yet put in place by Social Services or the transport has not been booked…

The issue of sending people home from hospital is a complex one, as it involves lots of people having to work together from different organisations.

In 2015, NICE issued guidelines recommending that a single named health or social care professional should be identified as the discharge coordinator.

Planning

Good discharge planning should start before or the moment you are admitted to hospital.

This goal of planning discharge has proved incredibly tough to implement.

The state of discharge arrangements and the quality of patients’ experience of discharge, is an indicator of the quality of partnership working between health and social care.

Yet again we see how true integrated multidisciplinary working is more of an aspiration than a reality and this results in sometimes catastrophic consequences for patients and their families.

With growing pressure on health and care services it is more important than ever that people are able to leave hospital with the support they need to get well and stay well, preventing unnecessary readmission to hospital.

Listening to and learning from people’s experiences will provide the best measure of how discharge is working.

That’s why Healthwatch believes that patient experience of discharge is an excellent way to assess progress in health and social care integration.

Patient experience of leaving hospital, and the care and support they receive afterwards to help them recover, provides real insight into how well services are working together.

How to contact us : Facebook @healthwatchwokingham Twitter @HWWokingham Phone 0118 418 1 418 Website www.healthwatchwokingham.co.uk E-Mail enquiries@healthwatchwokingham.co.uk Walk in via Citizens Advice at 2 Waterford House, Erfstadt Court, Denmark St, Wokingham RG40 2YF. Nicola Strudley is manager for Healthwatch Wokingham Borough. Opinions are her own

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A grand day at the gee gees GEMMA DAVIDSON is ready for a night at the races, thanks to Wargrave Theatre

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ARGRAVE Theatre is heading to the races next week for a special spring show.

Ladies’ Day, written by Amanda Whittington and directed by Ann Roberts, will be performed at the Woodclyffe Hall from next Wednesday, and if the audience have half as much as the cast have had in rehearsals, everyone will leave with a smile on their face.

Director Ann said: “As it is festival year and a lot of the men are involved in the festival performance of The

Merchant of Venice, I wanted to pick a play that was predominantly women. I found Ladies’ Day, which features four women, but there are a couple of male characters which can actually be played by one person, so that’s what we have done!

“The play is set in 2005 when Ascot Racecourse was closed for refurbishment and the races were moved up to York.

“The ladies are from Hull and they want a day out to celebrate Pearl’s upcoming retirement.

“Shelley wants to be discovered and become rich and famous, while Jan is just happy to get out of the house. The youngest girl, Linda, is an avid Tony Christie fan so all of the horses she picks have some link to his songs.

“We’ve had a ball, the cast are having a great time and it’s been thoroughly enjoyable putting the show together.

“Everyone was really keen to get involved, which surprised me as the performances are in the first week of the Easter holidays, but so far we haven’t had any disasters.

“I hope the audience will have a lovely time, it’s a thoroughly enjoyable play and we’ve all had a lovely time rehearsing it.

“Hopefully they can sing along to some of the songs too!”  Ladies’ Day is performed at the Woodclyffe Hall, Wargrave from Wednesday, April 5 to Saturday, April 8.

Tickets are £12, £10 for concessions. To book visit www.wargravetheatre.co.uk or call 0333 666 3366.

A PLAY about a class of illiterate adults possibly doesn’t sound like it would be a laugh-a-minute hoot, but the director of Woodley Theatre’s latest play promises that is exactly what it is.

Groping For Words, by Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend, tells the story of three people who have, for whatever reason, slipped through the nets of education, and their teacher Joyce. Joyce is a wellmeaning woman who just wants to teach adults to read, but little prepares her for the complications of her pupils’ lives. Stuck in a nursery room, complete with Wendy House and diddy plastic chairs, she gets enmeshed in the problem lives of her pupils, young nanny Thelma and war veteran George, and the caretaker, Kevin.

“They’ve all slipped through the net somewhere along the lines,” explains director Rowena Sterry, who has taken the helm for Groping For Words.

“It’s hard to believe in this day and age that someone could leave school without literacy skills, but it did happen for a number of reasons.

“One of the characters is a young woman who is dyslexic, but these were the days before dyslexia was fully recognised and understood, so

everyone thought she was just a bit simple.

“Another character is a bit older, and his education was interrupted somewhere along the line, possibly by the war, which was very common.

“The last man is a bit of a Jack The Lad who didn’t pay attention at school and has been left with poor literacy. They are all very different stories.

“I think the audience will be able to relate to the characters, especially those who went through their schooling in the 1970s and the 1980s, there are a lot of references to that period in the play.

“It is a very funny play, it’s very touching but generally very very funny. My thanks go to the cast who have all worked so hard in bringing this story to life and made this whole process so enjoyable.”  Groping For Words by Woodley Theatre is at the Oakwood Centre from Tuesday, April 4 to Saturday, April 8. Performances are at 7.45pm.

Tickets are £10, concessions £8, balcony £5. For more information and to book visit www. woodleytheatre.org, email boxoffice@ woodleytheatre.org or call 07939 210121.

GEMMA DAVIDSON

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BEEBIES star Mr Bloom is bringing his Nursery Live show to The Hexagon this Easter, and you could be there thanks to our amazing competition.

We have four sets of Family Tickets to giveaway for you and your tiddlers (four sets of four tickets) to see Mr Bloom and the Veggies in their first ever live tour.

Mr Bloom and the Veggies

are getting their Nursery ready for a very special occasion - a member of the Royal Family is paying them a visit!

Can you lend a hand and help them get the allotment ready in time?

Featuring all of the much loved elements of the TV show, Mr Bloom (Ben Faulks) will be joined by all his gardening friends: Margaret, Joan, Colin, Raymond and Sebastian, the

lovable Wee MacGregors, and not forgetting Mr Bloom’s trusty machine ‘The Compostarium’.

Come and sing along to all your favourite songs: ‘This Is My Allotment’, ‘Meet The Veggies, ‘The Compo Song’ and’ Night Night Veggies’.

Mr Bloom’s Nursery Live comes to The Hexagon on Friday, April 7 at 1pm and 4pm, and Saturday, April 8 at 11am and 2pm.

Tickets are £17.50, under 16s £15.50, family ticket (four people) £60.

Win family tickets To win one of four family tickets simply send your name, contact details and preferred performance to contests@ wokinghampaper.co.uk before midday on Thursday, April 6.

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Festival celebrates artistic talents

Aurelia Brown, Bryan Telfer Chairman’s Trophy

Luming Zhang, Davy Trophy

George Skeil, Beechwood Junior Brass Award

THREE WEEKENDS of music and drama came to an end on Sunday with a special finale concert.

The annual Woodley Festival saw 2,250 performances in a range of disciplines.

There were 930 singers from 32 school choirs, 580 entries in speech and drama, 330 budding pianists, 240 instrumentalists and 170 singers.

Organisers said that meant there were 149 hours of arts to be judged. As a result, 1,300 certificates were awarded, hundreds of medals and 84 trophies.

Sian Moore, who runs the festival, said: “We were delighted to welcome nearly 7,000 visitors to the three weekends before the Finale Concert when nearly 500 visitors enjoyed the highlights of the Festival again. Anyone interested in volunteering next year should get in touch via our Facebook page or our Twitter account - we’d love to see you.”

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Rainbow Trophy Aurelia Brown Charles Wise Memorial Trophy James Govan Andrew McBride Trophy Scarlett Bennett McCallum Trophy Elif Lammel Wedgwood Trophy Not awarded Wallner Trophy Kate Mitchell Mary O’Leary Trophy Madeline Coleman-Phelps Brunel Trophy Josie Rippon Norman Morris Trophy Stephanie Foster Calliope Trophy Alistair and Finian Doyle Falcon Trophy Stephanie Foster Star Trophy Walter Infant School Star Award Crosfields Yr 2 Choir Forley Cup Holme Grange Yr 4 Choir Forley Trophy Elstree Junior Choir John Keane Trophy St Joseph’s Chamber Choir John Keane Choral Shield Somerleaze Singers, Abbey Junior Sch John Keane Choral Award Crosfields Middle School Boys’ Choir John Keane Cup Crosfields Middle School Girls’ Choir Walker Cup Bulmershe Ensemble Walker Trophy Elstree Senior Choir Cantilena Trophy Not awarded

John Callan Trophy Best Performance in the string solo classes Rebekah Clarke Oakwood Instrumental Award Best Performance in the instrumental graded classes Anlan Huang Durant Cup Most promising instrumentalist aged under 16 Emily St. Clair Maxwell Trophy Best musician in the open solo instrumental classes including concerto class Not Awarded Follett Trophy Highest place in the beginners’ classesAleksandar Blanusa Hook Trophy Highest place in the woodwind class 12 yrs and under Conrad Spencer Minerva Trophy Best performance by duet or ensemble aged 12 yrs and under Marist School Swing Band Norman Heads Trophy Best performance by duet or ensemble aged 16 yrs and under and open classes Quintessential Wind Trustee Savings Bank Award Best performance in the solo wind classes, including brass Not Awarded Beechwood Junior Brass Award Best performance in the Brass Solo Class 12yrs and under George Skeil Beechwood Brass Award Best performance in the Brass

Solo Class 16yrs and under Not Awarded Best performance in the recorder classes Marko and Aleksandar Blanusa Instrumental Composition Award Best instrumental composition Not Awarded

Speech and drama Gavin Mills Trophy April Timpson Crosfields Cup Grazeley Primary School Duologue Verse Speaking Ethan Guy and Gregory Dain Choral Verse Year 2 and Under Holme Grange School Year 2 Choral Verse Year 4 and Under Holme Grange School Year 4 Choral Verse Year 6 and Under Reddam House School Year 6 Choral Verse Year 8 and Under Reddam House School Year 8 Woodley and Earley Times Cup for Duologue Acting Lucy Pither and Olivia Walcott Maclean-Hobkirk Trophy for Composition James Govan Write a Verse Tom Lewington Write a Story Yashwanth Bandy Joan Ellis Memorial Cup for Junior Shakespeare Angelika Etherington-Smith Gillian Reid Cup for Senior Shakespeare Tanui Virmani Spontaneous Improvisation Cup Henry Kunzig and Matthew Keel

Anlan Huang, Oakwood Instrumental Award

Tamara Lee, Queen Ann Star Award

Mime Cup Kamran Seal Group Acting Tanwood Seniors Group Mime Crosfields School Greens Margaret Paterson Cup for Public Speaking Aditi Parolekar Story Telling Megan Wright News Reel Trophy William Dean Queen Anne Star Tamara Lee Jenkins Cup for Year 5 Charlie Hagen

Piano Challenge Trophy Matthew Lockwood Championship Solo, Adult Cluff Memorial Trophy Tarun Chandramouli Beginners, 11 & under Davy Trophy Luming Zhang Most Promising Junior Dorothy Symes Memorial Trophy Luming Zhang Baroque, 12 & under Ellen Goodworth Memorial Trophy Asia Movsovic At the Discretion of the adjudicator Ellen Goodworth Music Trophy Tom & Emma St Clair Best performance in the duet classes EPTA Cup Jaidon Elliott Junior Recital, 11 & under Festival Trophy Sally Coyne At the Discretion of the adjudicator Helen Peet Concerto Cup Elena Stipesevic Concerto, 18 & under JJ Trophy Tom St Clair At the Discretion of the adjudicator

Jean Telfer Memorial Trophy Sandro Shargorodsky Recital, 13 & under Joan Taylor Trophy Jackie Rao Recital, 15 & under John Manning Trophy Nolan Chenchery An exceptional performance, 8 & under Kay Blackburn Trophy - Grade 1 Hana Maryam Hussain Grade 1 class Kay Blackburn Trophy - Grade 1 Kenodh Perera Grade 1 class Kay Blackburn Trophy Grade 2 Nolan Chenchery Grade 2 class Kay Blackburn Trophy - Grade 2 Viyan Kumar Grade 2 class Oakwood Trophy Natalie Martin Adult classes, at the discretion of adjudicator Pavilion Trophy Hannah Koe An outstanding junior performance Ronald Hughes Rose Bowl Emily Gallagher Recital, 18 & under Wendy Wilson Trophy Dr Claire Hansell Most promising performer, adult classes Wokingham Times Trophy David Dreebin Sonata Classes - 18 & under, & adult Wokingham Times Senior Trophy Sandro Shargorodsky Most promising senior, 12 & over

Tom’s planning

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NE OF the brightest stars of this year’s Reading Festival has said he is excited to play the legendary festival for the first time.

Bedford-born singer-songwriter Tom Grennan, whose new EP Release the Brakes was released on March 10, will be playing the Richfield Avenue site for the first time this August bank holiday weekend.

But before then, he is embarking on a huge UK festival tour, and will be continuing his post-Reading buzz with a UK tour in September.

Fresh from his first tour of the year however, Tom chatted to The Wokingham Paper about what it’s like to be billed as one of the hottest stars of the year, and the all-important upcoming festival season. “[The tour] was amazing, it was busy because every show was sold out,” Tom says. “The energy was very, very high and everyone was really nice, I tried to meet everyone at every show, it was amazing and I can’t wait to get back on tour now.”

Having only released one EP, the reaction came as a bit of a surprise to Tom, who has always held a very modest approach to his talent.

His big break only came about after a drunken evening at a friend’s party, where he stood up and sang, much to the amazement of those around him who had no idea he could perform.

He was put in touch with a band and started recording, but it wasn’t long before his vocal talents were noticed, and

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Rick Stein with Chris Hughes from the Pop Up Picture Company, coming to Cliveden this summer Picture: Gemma Davidson

Rick’s flicks will brighten up Cliveden It’s a unique cinema experience for food lovers. GEMMA DAVIDSON finds out more

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“The idea of the Sunset Cinema really appealed to me because it combines my two loves: food and films.

I’ve had a look through the list of film suggestions and there are some real corkers in there which I would love to see again.”

Chris added: “We’re looking for some real summer classics to screen, and of course we’ll have to show Scandal [the 1989 film based on the notorious Profumo Affair which took place at Cliveden House in 1961].”

The programme of films includes the Oscarnominated La La Land on June 23, and Lion on June 29, and classics such as Grease on July 2 and Dr No on July 9. n Tickets for Rick Stein’s Sunset Cinema at Cliveden go on sale on Wednesday, April 5. For the full programme of films, and details on how you can book tickets visit http://popuppicturecompany. co.uk.

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he was snapped up to appear on Chase & Status’ track All Goes Wrong.

“My publisher set [the collaboration] up, he showed them my song Something in the Water, and I didn’t really want them to use it, so I showed them another song, it was literally the backbones but they loved it, and we built it together into All Goes Wrong, it was wicked.”

With the release of his second EP, Tom is looking to cement himself in the indie scene, and is hoping that his festival appearances will add to that.

He said: “It’s very different to Something in the Water, but it’s been wicked, the reception has been really cool. I was a bit apprehensive as to whether people would like it and get me but people seem to like it.

“We wanted to up the production levels on it, but still show my voice off. I didn’t really think about it too much, I just wanted to put it out and see what people thought.

People have been really, really nice about it.

“There’s so many festivals coming up, Reading and Leeds are going to be mad, I’ve been to Reading a few times and always wanted to play it. I’ve only been as a fan and when we’d go I always said to my mates that I’d love to do it. I’m on a really good stage so I’m ready for it, I’m excited for all of them.

“The set is going to be a full band, I don’t know how big it will be and I’ve never played with a full band yet but it will be a good show. Reading be ready!”

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UNIQUE experience which teams the biggest Hollywood films with high end cuisine will be taking place just over the border in Buckinghamshire this summer.

Celebrity chef and restaurateur Rick Stein, whose fish restaurants have made him a household name across the country and beyond, has partnered up with Chris Hughes of the Pop Up Picture Company to create Rick Stein’s Sunset Cinema at Cliveden House, in Taplow, from June 21.

Merging cinema with fine dining is not a new concept to Chris, who teamed up with Marlow-based Michelin starred chef Tom Kerridge last year for a seasonal programme at Marlow Town Hall.

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“I’m not here to revolutionise the cinema experience, that is a job for someone else to try, but we want to offer people something different, a little bit special.

“Cliveden became involved because after the success of Marlow [4,200 tickets completely sold out within days of release] we were looking for somewhere a little bigger, and the opportunity arose to bring it here so we jumped at the chance.

“The idea of screening classic films in such a grand location is brilliant and we think the audiences will love it too.”

Rick himself came on board after Chris pitched the idea of serving up his signature seafood dishes alongside cult cinema classics in stylish surroundings.

Rick said: “I love cinema, and I find it to be a very social activity.

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BAGSHOT – White Hart, Guildford Road GU19 5JW. Chris Banderas.

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BINFIELD – Binfield Club, Forest Road RG42 4DU. KGB. Details: 01344 420572.

BRACKNELL – The Keller, Coppid Beech Hotel, John Nike Way RG12 8TF. Black Market Details: 01344 303333.

BRACKNELL – The Boot Inn, Park Road RG12 2LU. The Originals. Details: 01344 454532.

BRACKNELL – The Silver Birch, Birch Hill Road RG12 7DE. 2nd Echo.

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BRACKNELL – The Acoustic Couch, Market Place.

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CROWTHORNE – The Crowthorne Inn, High Street RG45 7AD. Utter Madness. Details: 01344 530615.

COVE – The Ivy Leaf Club, Cove Road GU14 0HF. DisCover. Details: 01252 542962.

FLEET – The Falkners Arms, Falkners Close GU51 2XF. Hubba Bubba.

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FRIMLEY GREEN – Frimley Green Working Mens Club, Sturt Road GU16 6HX. Free Peace Sweet.

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READING – Palmer Tavern, Wokingham Road RG6 1JL. The Skangsters.

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READING – Grosvenor Casino Reading, Rose Kiln Lane RG2 0SN. David Largie. Details: 0118 402 7800.

READING – Oakford Social Club, Blagrave Street RG1 1PZ. Madchester Indie Disco. Details: 0118 959 4267 READING – The Purple Turtle, Gun Street RG1 2JR. The Big Yella Launch:

King Salami and The Cumberland 3. SoundJam. Details: 0118 959 7196.

SANDHURST – The Rose and Crown, High Street GU47 8HA. Jukes Blues.

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TWYFORD – The Golden Cross, Waltham Road RG10 9EG. Graffiti Child.

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TWYFORD – The Duke of Wellington, High Street RG10 9AG. The Shelf Side. Details: 0118 934 0456.

WEST END – West End Social Club, High Street GU26 9PL. The Scallywags. Details: 01276 858501.

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. Mr Tibbs.

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WOKINGHAM – Victoria Arms, Easthampstead Rd RG40 2EH. Live music.

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WOKINGHAM – The Molly Millar, Station Road RG40 2AD. 70s, 80s night with DJ Mally. Details: 0118 977 4548.

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WEST END – West End Social Club, High Street GU26 9PL. Open mic.

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READING – The Hexagon, Queens Walk. Bye Bye Baby: Frankie Valli and Four Seasons tribute.

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READING – Progress Theatre, The Mount RG1 5HL. Jazz at Progress: Arnie Somogyi’s Jump Monk. Details: 0845 867 9845 READING – sub89, Friar Street RG1 1EP. Dreadzone. Details: 0118 989 5395.

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TWYFORD – The Golden Cross, Waltham Road RG10 9EG. Steve Carroll and Megan Luna. Details: 07946 342551.

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WOKINGHAM – The Roebuck, Market Place RG40 1AL. Disco night.

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BINFIELD – The Victoria Arms, Terrace Road North RG42 5JA. The Shelf Side. Details: 01344 483856.

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CROWTHORNE – The Crowthorne Inn, High Street RG45 7AD. The Originals. Details: 01344 530615.

FRIMLEY GREEN – Frimley Green Working Mens Club, Sturt Road GU16 6HX. The Scallywags.

Details: 01252 835322.

READING – The Palmer Tavern, Wokingham Road RG6 1JL. Faze 3.Details: 0118 935 1504.

READING – The Turks, London Road RG1 5BJ. Details: 0118 957 6930.

READING – Grosvenor Casino Reading, Rose Kiln Lane RG2 0SN. The Mays. Details: 0118 402 7800.

READING – Oakford Social Club, Blagrave Street RG1 1PZ. Bossaphonik.

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SANDHURST – The Village Inn, Yorktown Road GU47 9DX. Nick Stephenson. Details: 01252 873220.

STOKE ROW – The Cherry Tree Inn RG9 5QA. Marky Dawson. Details: 01491 680 430 WEST END – West End Social Club, High Street GU26 9PL. Uptown Traffic. Details: 01276 858501.

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. 4EVER80s.

Details: 0118 978 0918.

WOKINGHAM – The Victoria Arms, Easthampstead Road RG40 2EH. Julia Titus.

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WOKINGHAM – The Molly Millar, Station Road RG40 2AD. 70s, 80s night with DJ Mally. Details: 0118 977 4548.

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WOODLEY – The Good Companions, Loddon Bridge Road RG5 4AG. Midnight.

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WOKINGHAM – The Roebuck, Market Place RG40 1AL. Disco night. Details: 0118 979 6486.

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What’son Friday, March 31 FINCHAMPSTEAD – Library, FBC Centre RG40 4ES. Little Explorers Rhymetime: Nursery rhymes and songs for children aged five and under. Free. 11am11.30am. Details: 0118 908 8176.

WOKINGHAM – St Paul’s Church Parish Rooms, Reading Road. Coffee and Chat: listening ears, hot drinks, a chance to chat, friendly faces and more. 2pm-4pm. 0118 979 2122.

WOODLEY – Oakwood Centre, Headley Road.

Woodley & Earley Arts Group - Spring Exhibition - Many original paintings, cards, jewellery and crafts for sale. 10am-5pm and 7pm-9pm. Free admission. Details 0118 969 3461.

WOODLEY – Christ Church, Crockhamwell Road RG5 3LA. NSPCC Big Board Games Day. 7.30pm.

Details: 0118 926 8143.

Saturday, April 1 ARBORFIELD – British Legion, Eversley Road RG2 9PR. DTSA party and steam rally with Dr Busker performing in the evening. From 9am.

CROWTHORNE – St John the Baptist, Waterloo Road RG45 7NT. Thames Voyces concert: Spring Into Shakespeare. £14, £12 concessions, under 16s free. 7.30pm. Details: 0118 967 7319.

EMMBROOK – Village Hall, Emmbrook Road RG41 1JN. Thames Valley Guide Dog Volunteers quiz night. 7.30pm.

LOWER EARLEY – Trinity

Church, Chalfont Close RG6 5HZ. Open Saturday in aid of charity. 11am2pm. Stalls, lunches, table tennis, food and more.

Details: 0118 931 3124.

READING – St Joseph’s College, Upper Redlands Road RG1 5JT. Reading Haydn Choir and Chaconne Brass Spring Concert: Chilcott’s St John Passion; Bruckner’s Motets. 7.30pm. £14, concessions £12, under 17s £5, Under fives free.

Details: www.haydnchoir. org.uk READING – Great Hall, University of Reading, London Road Campus, Reading RG1 5AQ. Reading Symphony Orchestra: Ravel, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky.

7.30pm. £15, £12.50 concessions, under 18s and students £5. Details: 0118 986 0707.

MAIDEN ERLEGH – Library, off Silverdale Road RG6 7HS. Children’s Writing Group. Booking essential.

For ages 9-12. Free.

2.30pm-3.30pm. Details: 0118 966 6630.

SHINFIELD – Baptist Church, Fairmead Road RG2 9DL. Coffee morning in aid of Shinfield Voluntary Car Service and Readibus. 10am-noon.

Details: 0118 327 3180.

SHINFIELD – St Mary’s Church, Church Lane RG2 9BY. Music at St Mary’s: Shinfield Community Singers and Oakbank School. Noon2pm. Free entry, retiring collection. Followed by lunch.

WOKINGHAM – All Saints Church, Wiltshire Road RG40 1UE. Trinity Concert Band spring concert: music from Harry Potter, Holst’s Mars, Nessun Dorma and

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Schindler’s List. 7.30pm. £12 in advance, £13 on door. Tickets from Town Hall. Details: 0845 2263047.

WOKINGHAM – Library, Denmark Street RG40 2BB. Children’s Code Club for beginners aged 9-12. 10.15am11.45am. Dad and Baby Rhymetime. 10am10.30am. Details: 0118 978 1368.

WOODLEY – Oakwood Centre, Headley Road.

Woodley & Earley Arts Group - Spring Exhibition - Many original paintings, cards, jewellery and crafts for sale. Sat 10am-5pm.

Free admission. Details 0118 969 3461

Sunday, April 2 SHINFIELD – Baptist Church, Fairmead Road RG2 9DL. Community crafts: crafts, stories, toys and more. Light snacks for children, coffee and cake for parents. 2pm-5pm.

Bike ride around the area.

2.30pm. Details: 0118 327 3180.

WOKINGHAM – All Saints Church, Wiltshire Road RG40 1UE. Wokingham Choral Society Easter Concert: St John’s Passion. £15.

4.30pm. Details: www. wokingham-choralsociety.org.uk

Monday, April 3 BEECH HILL – Trunkwell Gardens, Beech Hill RG7 2AT. Thrive Project volunteer taster session.

10am-noon. Details: 0118 988 5688.

BRACKNELL – Bracknell Open Learning Centre, Rectory Lane RG12 7GR. Bracknell Camera Club meeting. Print competition. 7.30pm.

Details: www.bracknellcamera-club.co.uk.

SPENCERS WOOD – St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Basingstoke Road RG7 1AP. Lent Course. 2.15pm or 7.45pm. Details: 0118 988 5923.

SWALLOWFIELD – Parish Hall. Swallowfield Art Group. Beginners welcome. 2pm-4pm.

Tuesday, April 4 FINCHAMPSTEAD – St James’ Church Centre, Church Lane RG40 4LU. Lent talks 2017: Living Justly In The World.

Activism: From the Abolitionists to the Paris Climate Agreement with Siobhan Grimes. 7.30pm9pm. Free. Details: 0118 973 0133.

MAIDEN ERLEGH – Library, off Silverdale Road RG6 7HS. Easter poems and stories for ages 9-12.

Free, booking essential.

2.30pm-3.30pm. Details: 0118 966 6630.

SWALLOWFIELD – Parish Hall. Riseley and Swallowfield WI meeting.

2.15pm. Graham Loxton Best: a day in the English courtroom.

TWYFORD – Library, Polehampton Close RG10 9RP. Get Arty for children aged 4-11. £1.50.

2pm-3pm. Details: 0118 934 0800.

WOKINGHAM – Bradbury Centre, Rose Street RG40 1XS. MORS club presents: Wokingham First Response Emergency Service.

7.30pm WOKINGHAM – St Paul’s Church Parish Rooms, Reading Road. St Paul’s Taverners lunch club at Broad Street Tavern.

12.30pm. 0118 979 2122.

WOKINGHAM – Library,

Denmark Street RG40 2BB. Children’s Origami Club. 4pm-4.45pm. 50p.

Details: 0118 978 1368.

Wednesday, April 5 SHINFIELD – School Green.

Welcome Club Easter tea and bingo. 2pm-4pm. All welcome.

WARGRAVE – Library, Woodclyffe Hostel, Church Street RG10 8EP. Get Arty for children aged 4-11. £1.50. 9.45am10.30am. Details: 0118 940 4656.

WOKINGHAM – Library, Denmark Street RG40 2BB. Sand Art. 10.30am12.30pm. Details: 0118 978 1368.

WOKINGHAM – The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue RG40 1TN. Willing Spirit Exercise Classes: Fitness Pilates.

1.30pm-21.5pm. £4. Keep Moving fitness class.

2.15pm-2.45pm. £2.50.

Both classes £5. Details: 0118 979 2797.

WOODLEY – Library, Headley Road RG5 4JA. National Young Writers Workshop for ages 5-12. 9.40am-10.30am.

Groovy Grammar for ages 7-8. 10.45am-11.45am.

Details: 0118 969 0304.

Thursday, April 6 ARBORFIELD – Community Centre, Princess Marina Drive. Spring community fun day including animals, henna, Easter egg hunt, community stalls and arts and crafts. £1 adults.

11am-3pm.

LOWER EARLEY – Library, Chalfont Close, Chalfont Way RG6 5HZ. Get Arty for children aged 4-11. £1.50. 2pm-3pm. Pirates workshop for ages 8-11.

10.45am-11.45am.

Details: 0118 931 2150.

SHINFIELD – Baptist Church, Fairmead Road RG2 9DL. Coffee morning.

10am-noon. Details: 0118 327 3180.

SPENCERS WOOD – Library, Basingstoke Road RG7 1AJ. Get Arty for children aged 4-11. £1.50. 11amnoon.Details: 0118 988 4771.

WINNERSH – Library, The Forest School, Robin Hood Lane RG41 5ND. Get Arty for children aged 4-11. £1.50. 2pm-3pm.

Details: 0118 979 7519.

WOKINGHAM – The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue RG40 1UE. Wokingham and East Berkshire Camera Club: Print contest round 4.

7.30pm. Details: www. webcc.org.uk.

WOKINGHAM – Whitty Theatre, Luckley House School, Luckley Road RG40 3EU. Wokingham Film Society presents: Things To Come. £6.50. 7.30pm. Details: wokinghamfilmsociety. com WOKINGHAM – Bradbury Centre, Rose Street RG40 1XS. Coffee morning in aid of Guide Dogs for the Blind. 10am-noon.

WOKINGHAM – Library, Denmark Street RG40 2BB. Children’s Chess Club. 3.30pm-5pm.

Details: 0118 978 1368.

WOODLEY – Library, Headley Road RG5 4JA. Get Arty for children aged 4-11. £1.50. 10.30am11.30am. Children’s Chess Club. 3.30pm-5pm.

Details: 0118 969 0304.

Friday, April 7 WOKINGHAM – Library, Denmark Street RG40 2BB. Get Arty for children aged 4-11.

£1.50. 10.30am-11.30am.

Printmaking Workshop with Karen GrevilleSmith. Ages 7 upwards 10am-noon. £3. Adults.

1pm-3pm. £5. Booking essential. Details: 0118 978 1368.

WOKINGHAM – St Paul’s Church Parish Rooms, Reading Road. Coffee and Chat: listening ears, hot drinks, a chance to chat, friendly faces and more. 2pm-4pm. 0118 979 2122.

Saturday, April 8 READING – St Luke’s Church, Erleigh Road RG1 5LH. Judas Maccabeus - Handel’s victorious oratorio sung

by Reading Festival Chorus. 7.30pm. £15, under 17s free. Details: 0118 983 4523.

READING – Great Hall, University of Reading, London Road Campus, Reading RG1 5AQ. South Chiltern Choral Society present Mozart’s Requiem and Schubert’s Mass No3 in B flat.

7pm. £12, under 21s £6.

Details: 07500 032840.

UPPER WOOLHAMPTON – Douai Abbey, RG7 5YQ. Reading Bach Choir Concert: ‘Passiontide.

7.45pm. £17, concessions £15, students £8, under 16s £5. Details: 0118 947 8097.

SHINFIELD – Shinfield Players Theatre, Whitley Wood Lane RG2 9DF. Shinfield Players present singalong to Frozen. 2pm.

Singalong to Sound of Music. 7pm. Details: 0118 975 8880.

SPENCERS WOOD – St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Basingstoke Road RG7 1AP.

Easter Fayre. 10am3pm. Details: www. spencerswoodchurch.org WOKINGHAM – Kings Place, 9 Station Road. #PrayerStop. Between 10.30 and noon. Details: www.kingschurch.org.uk/ prayerstop WOKINGHAM – St Paul’s Church Parish Rooms, Reading Road. Lent lunches: soup and rolls in aid of USPG, The Children’s Society and The Link Visiting Scheme.

0118 979 2122.

WOKINGHAM – Library, Denmark Street RG40 2BB. Further Adventures in Coding for ages 9-12.

Booking essential.

10.15am-11.45am.

Details: 0118 978 1368.

WOODLEY – Library, Headley Road RG5 4JA. Dinosaur storytime for ages 5 and under. 11am11.30am. Details: 0118 969 0304.

Sunday, April 9 EARLEY – St Nicolas Church, Sutcliffe Avenue RG6 7JN. Palm Sunday procession. 10am. Details: 0118 966 9080.

SONNING – St Andrew’s Church. Passover Seder meal. 4.30pm. Includes re-enactment of Exodus by children. Free, booking essential. Details: 0118 969 3298.

WOODLEY – Shopping Precinct, Crockhamwell Road RG5 4JZ. Car boot sale. 8am1pm. Details: www. woodleytowncentre.co.uk WOKINGHAM – All Saints Church, Wiltshire Road RG40 1UE. Procession of palms for Palm Sunday.

9.30am.

WOKINGHAM – St Paul’s Church, Reading Road.

Procession of Palms from St Paul’s School. 9.15am.

At the theatre Basingstoke – Anvil www.anvilarts.org.uk 01256 844244 Brendan Cole. Fri. Count Arthur Strong. Sat. Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie. Sat. Al Murray. Wed. Chairman’s Year of Music: Staff Showcase. Thurs 6. Music of Today. Fri 7. Philharmonia Orchestra. Fri 7. Croydon Philharmonic Choir and Basingstoke Choral Society.

Sat 8. O’Hooley & Tidow.

Sat 8. National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain.

Sun 9.

Basingstoke – The Haymarket

Mi Flamenco – Incognito. Thurs.

A Celebration of John Denver. Fri. Tadashai Imai – Conservatoire Concert Series. Fri. The Comedy Cellar. Fri. There’s Something About Gary. Sat. LDN Wrestling. Sun. The Comedy Cellar. Fri 7. Artree Live: Folk and Roots. Sat 8.

FILMS: Denial. Fri-Sun. Birth of a Nation. Sat. Life, Animated.

Mon. The Ardennes. Tues.

Passengers. Wed. Twelfth Night. Thurs 6. Passengers.

Fri 7-Sun 9. Gold. Fri 7-Sun 9.

Camberley – Theatre

Nell Gwynn. Until Sat. Madame Butterfly encore screening.

Sun 2. Film Season: Manchester by the Sea, I, Daniel Blake; La La Land; Fences; Lion; Moonlight; Hidden Figures; The Eagle Huntress; Jackie; Loving.

Mon-Fri 7.

Henley – Kenton www.kentontheatre.co.uk 01491 575698 Georgie Fame In Concert. Sat. Detect Egg. Thurs 13.

High Wycombe – Wycombe Swan

www.anvilarts.org.uk 01256 844244 Danny Baker. Thurs. Frigg (Finland). Fri. Let’s Twist Again. Sat. Champions of Magic. Sun. The Sound of Murder. Wed-Sat 8.

www.camberleytheatre.biz 01276 707600 Orwell School of Dance: A Time to Shine. Sat. You Win Again: Celebrating the Music of The Bee Gees. Thurs 6. The Boy and the Mermaid. Fri 7. Three Little Pigs. Sat 8. Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era. Sat 8.

www.wycombeswan.co.uk 01494 512000 Brendan Cole 2017. Thurs.

Yamato Drummers of Japan.

Fri. Omid Djalili: Schmuck For a Night. Sat. Play In A Week.

Mon-Fri 7. Hellfire Comedy Club. Thurs 6. Dirty Dancing 2017. Mon-Sat 8.

Bracknell – South Hill Park

Guildford – Yvonne Arnaud

Maidenhead – Norden Farm

www.southhillpark.org.uk 01344 484123

www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk 01483 440000

www.nordenfarm.org 01628 788997

Kit Hawes and Aaron Catlow.

Thurs. Total Who Show. Fri. The Bon Jovi Experience. Sat. Wow Said The Owl. Tues. The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show.

Thurs 6. NT Live: Twelfth Night. Thurs 6. The Noise Next Door: Uproar! Thurs 6.

Family Concertini: Music For Woodwind. Fri 7. Music For Brass. Fri 7. A New Flame: The Songs of Simply Red. Sat 8. Family Ceilidh. Sun 9.

Duende Jazz Trio. Sun 9.

FILMS: Toni Erdmann (15).

Thurs. Fences (12a). Sat-Sun. Sing (U). Sat, Mon. A Street Cat Named Bob (12a). Tues.

Frozen Sing-A-Long (PG).

Tues. The Founder (12a).

Tues, Wed. Landfill harmonic.

Wed. The Lego Batman Movie (U). Thurs 6. Hidden Figures (PG). Fri 7, Sun 9.

Newbury – The Corn Exchange www.cornexchangenew.com 0845 5218 218 ROH Live: Madama Butterfly.

Thurs. All At Sea. Fri. The Thing That Came From

Over There! Fri. Jongleurs Comedy Club. Thurs-Fri. Bilal Zafar: Cakes. Sat. New Music Showcase. Sat. Milton Jones work in progress. Mon. Joel Dommett live. Tues-Wed. NT Live: Twelfth Night. Thurs 6.

Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan: Every Grain of Sand. Sat 8.

Bolshoi Live. Sun 9.

FILM: Viceroy’s House (12a).

Until April 5. The Time of their Lives. Until Thurs 6.

Newbury – The Watermill www.watermill.org.uk.

01635 46044 Ann Veronica. Until Sat. Twelfth Night. Thurs 6-July 22.

Reading – South St www.readingarts.com 0118 960 6060 Heads Up by Kieran Hurley.

Wed. Jonny and the Baptists.

Thurs 6. Bilal Zafar: Cakes. Fri 7. Craft Theory. Sat 8.

Reading – Hexagon www.readingarts.com 0118 960 6060 Banff Moutain Film Festival

World Tour. Thurs. Count Arthur Strong. Fri. Ian Waite and Natalie Lowe. Sat. Yamato Drummers of Japan.

Wed. Bye Bye Baby. Thurs 6.

Mr Bloom’s Nursery Live. Fri 7-Sat 8. Verdi – Aida. Sun 9.

Reading – Progress www.progresstheatre.co.uk 0118 384 2195 His Dark Materials. Until Sat. Progress Premieres: The Writer Bird and The Swastika Party. April 24-29.

Shinfield – Players www.shinfieldplayers.org.uk 0118 975 8880 NEXT SHOWS: Frozen SingA-Long. Sat April 8. Sound of Music Sing-A-Long. Sat April 8.

Sonning – The Mill www.millatsonning.com 0118 969 8000 Improbable Fiction. Until May 6.

Afternoon Tea, Talk and Tour.

Thurs. The Bourne Again Shadows with Cliff. Sun. Tim Valentine. Fri-Sat. Storytime: A Squash and a Squeeze.

Wed. Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 1939. Sun 9.

Windsor – Theatre Royal www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk 01753 853888 Father Brown. Until Sat. Ultimate Elton and the Rocket Band.

Sun. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Musical. Tues-Sat 8.

Wokingham – Theatre www.wokingham-theatre.org.uk 0118 978 5363 NEXT SHOW: The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice. April 20-29.

Wokingham – The Whitty Theatre www.thewhittytheatre.org 0118 974 3247 Wokingham Film Society: Things To Come (12a). Thurs 6.

Woodley – Theatre www.woodleytheatre.org 07939 210121 NEXT SHOW: Groping For Words. April 4-8.

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Variegated (4) Chap 66 habit (4) Make (4)(5) Of the sea 19.

Chrysalis (4) 7.

Engine noise (4)(6) 5.Fo god (6) 26.Co European 20.

Written record (3) 25 ec ascholar ex side (7) 18.

Afflict Recreation 24.

Weapons 26.

Of weddings (6) 5.

More 21 Po ass um sHeart ehe W gh 4.

Apathy, 25.

Classical 7.

Comfort in 754. mo atea nk 6(6) Steering device Armoured 9. (inf.)

(6) 26.

Wear down (6) 23.

Organs of sight (4) 6.

(4) 11.

Ideas (anag.)

(5) 25.

Mistake (5) peninsula 6.Swindle Toboggan 5 Sma co n(4) 4 21 Wooden shoe 21.

Assist (4) 25.

Shortfall (7) Larger (7) enthusiastic (6) 22.

Smack (4) 5.

Spanish river (4) 21.

Reed (4) compound 6ng Pull sharply (5)(6) 22 P aye end 4 12.

8.

(9) 66.

La eout mea 6run Captured (5) 19.

Therapist (6) eso 4US 7.

Correct text (4) 21.

East (4) 22.

Veracity (5) inactivity (6) language (5) 11.

Customary (5) Singing voice distress 25. Ma Remit vehicle (4) 27.

Anticipating (6)(5) 26 shEuropean b(anag.) d 5(6) 11 FHandling gh en 5(6) 20.

Female sheep (3) 5.

Wing part (4) 9.

Redeye fish (4) 27.

Dissimilar (6)

10. an angle Bucket 13.

Sewing (9) 7.At Small spade (6) 12.

Pig-like animal (5) 6.

Poured (6) Right-hand Foyer 677.

Pa as c(4) nsec In poor health Pac 6(4) 65.

No onge a (7) ve 74 10.

American coin (4) 8.

Acted 12 Cou ageous 5(3-4) 10.

Well-liked (7) 11.

Choose for 12.

Praise highly (5) 6.

Frighten badly (7) 10.

Person who Gloomy (4) page (5) 7.

Assessing (6) fraudulently 11. (anag.) office (5) 13.

Indian prince (5) As well 98.

Wh evegetable Scottish resort 10 Snake 7a 13 Hu ed 5s(4) Gambling stake (4) 13.

Cold 14.

Declaration entertains (4) 11.

Pariah (7) 7.

Counterfoil (4)(9) 76.9.Tactile Un dy aed e(9) 4(7) 13.

Ben ----(5) 10.

Discretion (4)(5) 9.

Warning eag ech 4ed 14.

Wicked act (3) 12.

Jeans fabric dish (5) 14.

Deed (3) 8.

Becoming 14 Chu sea 3 (7) Wild African pig (7) Involve (9) 10.

13.

(7) 11 ns uc 7(5) 13.

Marsupial 8.

Willingness to 15.

Used aof 13.

Preliminary Shocking 8 Dishevelled mpasse 9plan 14.

Front a(9) ship 13.

Large feline (5)(3) instrument (4) louder (9) 10 O he w se 4 15.

Be ready for (5) 13.

Reimburse (5) 15.

Move stealthily (5) 15.

Undergo chemical believe (9) keyboard (5) 15 FIndulgent eshwa e7(7) 11.

High voice (7) 15.

Able to be 13 D m n sh 14.

Depict (7) 14.

Twinge (4) 14.

15.

One who eyes Confederate (4) 13 Fou o d 9 15.Undermine Worship (5) 10.

Coarse file (4) (3) change (5) 13.

Deadlock (9) 13 O a 5 (5) 14.

Animal doctor 16. mamma 18.

Counting frame 13.

Affirming bribed 13.

Support (7) lasciviously (5) 18.

Detailed 14 Demons a5(9)o(5)(5) 7(6) 15.

Doctrine 15.

Touch lightly 15.

Full 13.

Piece 14 S mpamount eof 4(5) 15.

Hide, protect (5) 16.

Command (5) 16.

Uncertainty (5) 14.

Distinctive 15 Even 5book 15.

Tusk material 19.

Scottish 16 Foe 5 14.

Irish Gaelic (4) 19.

Prayer (6)(5) 18.

Lodging, 18.

South American description (inf.)

(4) 14. Sum Interject (5,2) 15 De de 5 information (5) 16.

Snag (5) 16.

(5) 18.

Parasitic insect (4) atmosphere (4)5(4) 15 Lplain veen yout dance 18.

Aromatic plant mountain 19.

Scottish (3) 18 EJudean ude 6princess, 19.Climbing Hostelry (3) (6) 16.

Rub (5) registering (6) 19 Anc 3resort 15.

Tenet (5) 20.

19. plant (7) 15.

Of the voice (5) 15.

Thorny shrub (5) 16 Ac d c u 5 20.

Mythical 15.

Grind the teeth (5) 20.

(6)(4) 19.Glossy Light21.

Seize (6)coat 21.

Without difficulty (6) 18 A oma c(3) pdenies an 4 19 A ack One who Conifer daughter of 19.

European 19.

Wonderful (7) 21 Sup eme 18.

Unfortunately 21.

South Pacific 18.

Exhausted (4-2) 16.

Not at all (5) 22.

Lost liquid (6) creature (6) 20 Ha cu emonetary heartedness 18.

Owl’s (4) sHerodias ong y(7) 3(6) himself (7) country (6) 22.

Russian 22.

Register dom n cry on 663tuft 21. Felt Severity island (6) 21. hat (6) 19 Pe umed 7 (6)(6) Jeered 22.

Ornamental (6) 19.

Tropical bird 20.

Roof beam (6) 20.Sense Act as 21.

Filter (6) 23.

Conical 16 21 o(6) as e(4) 6(7) unit (6) Cavalry soldier 19.

20 La wasp 6 (6) 21.

Squalid area 20.

Slave to a6craft habit (6) Courage (6) 23.

Vigour 22 W dge ass 22.

Wrecker (6) 22.

Astounded (6) 22.Relaxing Unwell (6) 20.

Pleasure 24.

22 R ch cake 6(4,2) 23.

Considers substitute Across (6) 21.

Danger (6) 24.

Mormon state (4) 24 Sem p ec ous 23.

Thin (6) 22.

Croaky (6) 21 Pa ched 4 22.

Large vessel (4) 21.

Dried bog fuel (4) 23.

Detest (6) 23 Roo beam 6 24.

Metal alloy (6) exercise (4) 21.

Soon (4)(4)(6) 23.

Stomach 23.

Evergreen shrub (6) carefully 21.

Story 23.

Angelic being (6) 23 Ye ow u 6 aga eoff 4(6) 24.

Feel affection 24.

Inflatable 24.

Erred (6) 25.

Damage (4)(6)by Su 4 23.

Call 22 24.

With hands on 23.

Explosive 22.

Discontinue (4)(4) enzyme (6) 22.

Retail outlet (4) Re gounded ous 24 27.

Rub down, 22.Garden Italian capital (4) 25. hut (4) 24.

Attempting (6) 24.

Paris tower (6) 24.

Nuptial (6) 24 Nea y 6 mattress (3-3) 25 O d G eek co n 4 25.

Distort (4) 27.

Chess piece (4) 23 O ecen 24.

Sexual drive (6) hips (6) 26.

Resist boldly (4) 6 add ess 6mes smooth (4) 23.

Lasso (6) 23.

Allow (6) 24.

Flower part (6) 24.

Steal small 23.

Excessively (6) 26.

Slide sideways (4) 27.

Select (4) 27.

Skilfully 27 Chap n(4) 44(4) 27.

Cloak 27.

Blemish (4) 26 n(4) 4clothes 26.

River of Hades (4) 28.

Children’s 24 Nu y(4) 6 Mob 27.

Regimen (4) 24.Rema Wolfish (6) 24.

Predicament (6)its quantities (6)for 27 Young ho se 28.

City famous 27.

Humming 27.

Skating floor 24.

Remove (6) 27.

Colleague (4) game (1-3) 25.

Hairy (6) 28 Whee cove ng 4 25.

Pang (6) 28.

Salary increase (4) leaning tower (4) 28.

Musical ending (4) 25 nd ges b e 6 Exhaust (4) 27.

Droop (4) 28.

Wealthy (4) sound (4) 27 Lazy 4 28.

Tangle (4) Sicilian volcano (4) 25.

Tallied (6) 28 omed 4(6) 28.

Melt 25. Accus More(4)miserly

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QUICK swan; swash; wale; wane; wash; weal; CROSSWORD: mure; murre; murrey; quarry; quart; QUCK CKCROSSWORD: CROSSWORD QUICK p og pogo po son pongo corse; cosier; cosine; cossie; cress; hosel; howl; lase; lash; leal; lease; mute; oleum; outer; outré; permute; QUICK CROSSWORD: leap; leaper; leper; maple; pale; paler; libra; lilt; lint; lira; nail; rail; rain; QU CROSSWORD QU CK CROSSWORD QUICK CROSSWORD: co coo an coo nplight; opong ofête; arent; amiso; a c NORTHERLY; note; other; retro; PER METER pe m pe m prave; em esari; pou pou emilo; pu pu ee pu erani; pivot; private; privet; prove; mien; mile; mince; mine; feasted; feat; feed; feta; fêted; QUICK CROSSWORD: pistol; pith; pithos; plot; posit; QUICK proa; rapt; raptor; rasp; snap; soap; bier; biretta; bite; biter; bitter; brae; erased; eyed; rased; rated; read; QUICK CROSSWORD: REGISTRAR; resit; rise; riser; rite; wean; wels; welsh; whale; when.

Across 11Underdog; Digest; Script; Hectic; 11 Kudos; 12 quarte; quarter; query; rare; rate; Overdraft; 9Fa Letter; 10 Grit; 11 Dear; 12 Probed; 13 poo po ng po nsilt; pos ng leash; lose; sale; sallee; seal; crone; cross; crosse; encore; icon; PETROLEUM; plum; plume; poult; palm; palmer; peal; pear; pearl; rial; rill; tabil tian; till; cpons nefirhetor; on oo orove; obutte; on retry; rhyton; rorty; rote; ryot; p em e oca pfibrut; etail; epare; m prested; me psard; me pu obruit; epo epu ep em esallow; etibial; esitar; ospot; reave; revet; rive; rivet; trove; moil; mole; moline; mono; monocle; Acoss oss–––––––11212 O 910 O eeGarrison; awed 10 Dea 12 Boa Across 6 Bush; Loo; 9 Cassette; 10 Defer; Across 12 Minute; 8888Abbe; 10 Cancan; 11 Naked; 12 fetid; at; esta; fisporran; st; fitibia; tted; safe; seif; Abnormal; 6Astral; Sump; 8eRelent; Owl; 9Apparel; Bulletin; Ogre; Egg Perturb; Blue; Roll; Example; Poop; 12 Wool; post; postil; shot; sight; slight; slit; Cartwheel; 9Skater; Flab; 11 Vast; Teethe; span; spar; spat; sport; brute; butt; ready; rede; reed; reedy; Ac P ecgapnae4 ce Excep 10 con Run T nG12 eTaper; 13 Wrongdoer; 9Random; Butler; Knot; Barn; 12 Odious; Ac oss 1Policy; Be 4B O Squ 10 E ap eRile; 11 12 T ppe 764474Mascot; ue 8e888Yo kPorker; 9999 Sa u10 ed 10 Se 12 Edam 15 brat; Across Shepherd; Quiz; Emu; 9 10 Iris; 12 Paper; Scratch; Keel; Wisp; Lent; Bangle; 8Ink; Brunch; 10 Reheat; 11 Koran; Across Scrawling; 9 Archer; 10 Afar; 11 Home; 12 Enigma; Flowering; 9 Errant; Thai; 11 Nose; 12 Tablet; 13 Across Lomond; Torero; 11 Naval; 12 Fruitful; Same; Assassin; 10 Eddy; 12 sati; satire; serai; sierra; sire; site; Across Senator; 76 Slip; Inch; Robotic; 10 Only; 12 Hump; Risked; 14 Savage; Hold; Trey; 19 Flap; Quad; 26 Abrade; ream; rear; rearm; tamer; tare; Alerted; Tyre; 17 Roof; 1817 Ail; 20 Ewe; Coma; 23 Past; 25 seel; p on p nice; son pnicer; ogretry; PROGNOS Sperm; selah; sell; shale; shall; shallow; pour; pout; pouter; pule; pure; purée; necrosis; niece; once; 14Voice; P oBeano; e16 Co n1816 18 Th ea en 20 Re o e21 24 Seam 25 Emend 14 17 Leer; Receiver; Criminal; 2422 Arms; Timer; 26 peel; peeler; peer; pelham; père; on; 14 17 Saxe; 18 Recorder; Atlantic; 24 Brae; 25 Latin; Loosen; Nicest; Nark; 17 Tart; Mass; Step; 26 Bridal; trail; train; trial; tribal; trill.

15 Tench; 17 Potter; Kitten; 19 Leaked; Scribe; 22 Truth; Imprint; 16 Mead; Toga; Fez; 20 Log; 21 Slav; 23 Mete; oc a on c on o oo c o c aco tenor; tern; terry; then; theory; thole; Queu ng 16 Upa 17 Ta c 18 Hem 20 D 21 C og 23 B a 25 em me eem emp empe e o e o ou ou e e p oe vair; veer; vérité; vert; veto; vetoer; Sealing; 16 True; 17 Know; 18 Hoe; 20 Lea; Rush; 23 Cold; E e en 14 So en 16 Do e 17 Ewe 19 Ha ha 22 Amen 26 Sa o mooli; moon; moose; noisome; nome; Sna 17 Ro und 18 Sec o 19 Ea ne 21 Po a h 22 Roman 23 14 Scale; Pill; 18 Reviewer; 20 Recreate; 24 Pied; 25 Taken; 26 15 Baton; Report; 18 Render; 19 Healer; 21 Hebrew; 22 Radar; sift; sifted.

Leader; 14 Severn; 16 Tarn; 17 Prod; 19 Pupa; 22 Slap; 26 Stamen; slot; sloth; spigot; spilt; spilth; spit; sated; seared; seated; sedate; seed; butter; rebut; tabi; tabu; tribe; tribute; Seaport; Tent; 17 Eyed; Sum; Tee; Reel; 23 Wean; sprat; stop; strap; strop; tarp; tarpon; Acrid; 17 Shah; 18 Ranchero; 20 Dairyman; 24 Scab; 25 Error; Teeter; 14 Clothe; 16 Risk; 17 Toga; 19 Left; 22 Reel; 26 Iberia; 27 Frantic; 16 Rely; 17 Doze; 18 Hum; Guy; 21 Abet; Wren; 25 stagier; stair; starrier; stir; stirrer; stria; 15 Fleet; 17 Little; 18 Rocker; 19 Quince; 21 Farmer; 22 Kneel; 23 27 Unlike; 28 David; 30 Tureen; 31 Svelte; 32 Oyster.

Amnesty; 26 Tariff; 29 30 Sump; 31 Nantes; 32 Deadening. tarry; tear; teary; term; terry; tram; Yolky; 29 Foot; 30 Intimate; 31 Lee; 32 Free; 33 Teetotal.

26 29 Mini; 30 Parading; 31 Neo; 32 Wing; Tabulate.

26Shore; Wade 29 M 30 Op m 31 Ee 32 Jee 33 Th enod 27 Hoping; Lupin; 29 Custom; 30 Piffle; 31 Silver; 32 Jeered.

Ruth; 26 Debt; Upgrade; 29 Hair; 30 Fuzz; 31 Tenancy.

Lanyard; Copper; 29 Tied; 30 Toil; Tactic; 32 Challenge.

Pa ab e U gen TPundit; pe 30 A on nge Debu an e shawl; shoal; slaw; slew; sloe; purl; roué; roup; rout; route; p ong p aos ngthrone; op ng oso ntoner; sona gno Horatio; Maggot; Pier; Coil; 31 Tanner; Rebellion.

27 Mo e29 R gng d A ound 30 Demand 31 En Snee plea; pram; ramp; rape; raphe; reap; oncer; oscine; recess; RECESSION; To do 2626 S28 28 Ba aFuzz; 29 T o 30 Ax eL 31 La cen Onset; Lido; 30 Airstrip; Ran; 32 Dyed; 33 Daybreak.

23 Glow; 26 Sewn; 2829 Attract; 29 Over; 30 Yale; 31 Paradox.

Hallow; Donor; 29 Durban; Pidgin; 31 Potion; 32 Statue. athorn; arepute; cshell; on an oco thorny; tone; empe e e m me me m 26 Habit; 29 Beeb; 30 Airiness; 31 Low; 32 Stye; 33 Nowadays.

Deficit; 26 Hacker; 29 Pink; 30 Webs; 31 Naples; 32 Ready-made.

Onrush; 28 Llama; 29 Icicle; 30 Ebbing; 31 Guyana; 32 Merely. e o e ope ope op oe viper; vireo; vote; voter. omen; osmic; semi; SEMICOLON; Rarebit; 26 Tragic; 29 Cows; 30 Gift; 31 Unload; 32 Lawlessly. seedy; stared; stayed; stead; steady; split; spoilt; spot; SPOTLIGHT; stilt; tuba; tube; tuber; turbit.

TRANSPORT; trap.

Eyes; 26 28 Hammock; 29 Ogre; 30 Isle; 31 Dullard. tarrier; tarsier; terai; tier; tiger; tire; Down 11212Stay; Deport; Garish; Shekel; 5Deny; Caesar; 6Ex In-tray; Verily; 3 Retire; 4Repeat; Flap; Terrify; Down Noah; 44Meteor; Dither; 6Keener; Borzoi; Bout; 4u334 Slower; 11 Down–––––––212 Ra e33233Oblige; Go gon LCen do 666 7Teemed; L77 aTicker; e11 Also; Peep; Reader; Unpack; Brew; 677Icicle; Alto; 10 Down Morale; 22 Nelson; 334Faster; Tanner; 5Glee; Stadia; Racket; Length; Aflame; Tabard; 4n Havant; 55 Erst; Lateral; Cen Pa en5545Long; nc7a676Solace; 77Oban; Me 8887 slow; tray; truer; tyre; urate; urea; Render; 3 4 Debunk; 5 Ebro; 7 Also; Ba ke Reu ed 3Newe Ta ge Fe Suppe Tea ea F ee Te and Pa o556ow R de 6Cresta; F Down Heap; Portal; Easter; 6Sketch; Quince; 7Marine; Kepi; 3 Torpor; 56 Hall; 10 1Recoup Bubbly; 2Nettle; Nougat; 3 Cannes; Locker; Rasp; Isaiah; Line; Mid-air; 11 sola; sole; swell; wale; wall; Down Coffee; 323Easter; Abrupt; Lahore; 55 Name; 6Fedo Grenade; 7Edit; Chug; rule; rump; rumple; rupee; tolu; Down Palate; 2Slap; Lumber; 3Rancid; Apollo; 711 snog snoop soon sponso remap; repeal; repel.

Lahore; Whinny; 4Rudder; Nest; 65Run-down; Greater; 7Stub; Pail; recon; rice; scene; scion; scone; on c trey; oo oon tony; torn; torr; trey; troy; tyre; eme ome otore; etrue; o esong oupee ou ou simoleon; simoon; slim; slime; smile; steed; strayed; tardy; teased; teed; stop; stot; thiol; this; tight; tilt; tilth; Down – 1 Clan; 2 Spry; 3 Nibble; 4 Tether; 5 Rich; 6 Scam; 10 triage; trier; trig.

9Rating; 10 Host; 13 Koala; 15 Venal; 18 Pampas; 19 France; 20 Credulity; 13 14 Erse; 15 Dogma; 18 Alas; Scoffed; Elect; Denim; Repay; 14 Vet; 15 Ivory; 16 Erase; Fir; 21 Usual; 12 Exalt; Nevis; 14 Bow; 15 Adore; Order; 19 Inn; 21 Popular; 11 Outcast; 13 Outline; 14 15 Tenet; 16 Hitch; 20 Sca e12 B aAttesting; e13 13 Th ew 14 Pew 15 O eE18 Enem 19 O ded 21 weal; 9 Tank; 10 Cent; 13 Salad; Creep; 18 Abacus; 19 Missal; 20 Embezzled; 13 Implicate; 14 Pang; 15 Total; 18 Flea; Ascetic; 22 S aRudd; ema e10 13 Quad up e13 14 Ea Ga op 18 He b19 19 Scen 8 Stalemate; 14 Aura; 15 Gnash; 18 Hoot; 9 ECrescendo; ne E Voca 15 Le eLenient; 18 cape 19 H ou Se pen 11 Tu o13 ed De ac 14 Ma che 15 Snee 16 Lemon Sport; 12 Pluck; 13 Recto; 14 Sin; Await; 16 Erode; 19 Ben; Warthog; Soprano; 13 Endorse; 14 Throw in; 15 Brier; 16 Never; 9 Horn; 10 Rasp; 13 Datum; 15 Vocal; 18 Used-up; 19 Aside; Tapir; 13 Rajah; 14 Act; 15 React; 16 Doubt; Ayr; 21 yare; year; yurt.

Treatment; 13 Stitching; 14 Ante; 15 Typed; 18 Spec; 19 Creeper; Trowel; 912 Dark; 10 Tact; Tiger; 15 Ogler; Filing; 19 Levity; 20 Statement; 13 Frightful; 14 Ally; 15 Cover; 18 Herb; Magical; 22 weasel; well; wels; whale; toupee; tour; troupe; true; trump; spoon spoo spoo ng sp ogyard; score; scorn; scree; screen; tyro. ou etopi; ee ee op e welsh; osenecio; p tule; solemn; some; somoni.

Oblique; 11 Lattice; 13 Unkempt; 14 Portray; 15 Flick; 16 Total; 20 trad; trade; tread; treed; tyred; toil; tosh.

Addict; 21 Peat; 22 Quit; 23 Unduly; Divest; 25 Meaner.

Amazed; 23 Pepsin; 24 Stamen; 27 Rink; 28 Fuse.

Rigour; Mettle; 23 Loathe; 24 Akimbo; Diet; 28 Tahiti; 22 Ailing; 23 Cherub; 24 Bridal; 27 Spot; Knot.

Dragon; Strain; 24 Utah; Hurt; 26 Defy; Buzz.

Emp e22 22 Onage 23 e25 24 Se mon Co U ed Vandal; Myrtle; 24 Trying; Pick; 28 Rich.

Salome; 21 22 Ship; Tonite; 24 Pilfer; Agreed.

22 Ga eau 23 24 A23 mo 27 Gen 28 T28 e Trooper; 22 Hoarse; Cancel; 24 Libido; 27 Gang; 28 Tire.

Ho ne21 21 ASlum; dBanana 22 Am dRa 23 Mode n24 24 Nega e27 25 S24 odg 20 Ro e23 21 Pa aRome; e23 24 On x27 25 Obo 26 S27 a27 27 dEtna. eI-spy.

Easily; Record; Energy; 24 Pewter; 27 Sand; 28 Pisa.

20 Rafter; 21 Hazard; 24 Love; Warp; 26 Styx; 27 Wilt.

Parrot; 20 Pedalo; 21 Anon; 22 Shop; 23 Lariat; Plight; 25 wheel; Arrest; Rouble; Narrow; 24 Sinned; 27 Pawn; 28 Fill in; Tale; 22 23 Enable; 24 Lupine; 25 Shaggy.

22 Leaked; 23 Wigwam; 24 Air-bed; 27 Cape; 28 Rise.

Tassel; 23 Weighs; 24 Eiffel; 27 Ably; 28 Coda. whole; WHOLESALE. tump; tupelo.

Enamel; 21 Fedora; 24 Yoga; 25 Shed; 26 Skid; Ally. sice; pe since; e sincere; ope osonic. oupe ou YESTERDAY. Twinge.

martyr; mater; mature; merry; oops ohelp; son pmmaturer; npost; pfeast; ngo p on coin; coiner; coir; cone; core; corn; heal; heel; hell; hello; hole; holla; lure; lute; moue; moult; mule; mure; harp; heap; helper; hemp; lamp; brill; ital; lain; lair; lari; COAL Tpont; ON coa coa co anorth; one hotel; hotly; lent; lento; loth; me eBRILLIANT; mé edyer; me eo epo m eco mliar; PnoROUETTE poe po eprat; po overeat; overt; pave; paver; pavior; melon; meno; mesic; meson; mesonic; fasted; fate; fated; fatted; list; litho; lost; loth; loti; phot; pilot; pons; porn; port; battue; bear; beat; beau; beaut; beta; dree; drey; eared; eased; gratis; grist; grit; irate; raise; raiser;

Down Japan; Venue; Diets.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: Down Alarm; Hoist; Rigid.

Down–––––––Tango; Boss ack Hunch; Scene Dwe Venus; Lingo; Doyen.

CRYPTCCCCROSSWORD: CROSSWORD CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: Loach; Trail; Laden; Apace; Holds.

Grime; Alibi; Latte.

Unarm; Evade; Duels.

Finch; Maori; Reeks.

Scan Un Ee edy Zooms LBeaux; c Neeps.

Ha Down Pagan; Costs; Spool.

Down Works; Vicar; Straw.

Down Takes; Fiend; Silky.

Demon; Towns.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: Eerie; Chews.

Tango Spen CRYPT CROSSWORD CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: Down Aegis; Putts.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: CRYPT CROSSWORD CRYPTIC Safer; Usage; There.

Down –G Miser; Needs; Hussy.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: (2) Across Cacti; Looms; Oldie.

(2) Across Lakes; Pearl; Ewers.

Across 1 Bungler; 8 Haircut; 9 Lesotho; 10 Dilemma; 11 Steeple; Acoss oss–––––––Earth; Veaow Demon Op ec Feint; Under; Dregs.

Hyper; Virus; Stein.

– Berating; 5 Scot; 8 Pinnacle; 9 Palm; 11 Steeple; 13 Gamut; Focus; Shove.

Budge; Knave; Rules.

Taken; Ended; Riser.

Patch; Alert; Dread.

22 Across Ac oss R g bs d Yokel; Ve ge Torte.

Noses Rese mago Gen (2) Across Chart; Acorn; Grass.

(2) Across Macaw; Trail; Lymph.

(2) Across Liana; Reach; Doted.

2(2) Ac M P awn Emend Gloss; Swell; Speed.

Amaze; Hoofs; Range.

Ac oss 1 D po on 9 mpe 10 Ama eu 11 Va e 12 Across – 1 Quarter; 8 Haulier; 9 Audibly; 10 Magenta; 11 Roulade; Across Microfilmed; 9 10 Orlando; Nude; 12 Ulcer; Chops; Totty.

Prerogative; 9 Outer; 10 Treason; Suit; 12 Of course; 1 Eavesdrop; 6 Tis; Seat justice; Under; 10 – Crackdown; 8 Tabu; 9 Quadrille; 11 Damask; 12 Wholly; Hailstorm; 8 Frau; 9 Obscenity; 11 Sewell; Brenda; Ac oss F an c 8 Ep aph Neu on 10 Su geon 11 Nu ca e (2) Lou ana 6 8 Pa o p ama 9 Ka ak Across – Come stream; Resonance; 10 Urn; Suicide; 12 Starboard; 6 Ria; 8 Make light of it; 9 Padre; 10 Canberra; 6 & 22 Last post; 8 Bowl; 9 Sprinter; Ac oss Hu a hu a 5 Anna Ye and no 9 A 11 Ap opo 13 Across – 1 Advocate; 5 Oslo; 8 Depraved; 9 Spud; 11 Chronic; Edginess; 5 Ives; 8 Hard sell; 9 Anti; 11 Ineptly; 13 Across 11 Clapping; 6arms; Cost; Ambo; 9of Onlooker; 10 Bird of Across –Cello; Cable; Aitch; Yokes.

With open 998Roost; Oddfellow; 10 Yea; Granada; Across ––1Implausible; 211 Win; 5on Tricky; 7Gem Arisen; 9 Golden hello; 10 Person; 11 Down Chord; Issue.

Down Knave; Sulks.

12 Snaking; 14 Draw out; 18 Ricotta; 20 Epicure; 21 Adamant; 22 Down–––––––Egypt; VLapse; deo Rem Son Excel; 18 Had on; 19 Lighter; 21 Tact; 22 Hothouse; Fluid; Indie; Terms.

Hives; Purge; Rosin.

Ab en14 ee 14 Rhode 15 S ucco 18 Me hano 20 Abed 22 Gifts; Taste.

Baker; Drawl; Evens.

Their; Kudos; Nadir.

12 Scorpio; 14 Leaning; 18 Actress; 20 21 Locarno; 22 Plaid; Theme; Hated.

Raven Ge ms D e cs Ru ng Spawn Those Down Metal; Charm; Welsh.

Down Clang; Aroma; Tents.

Down Lurid; Await; Ached. e Macho; Agave Waned Gusts; Obese; Salad.

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Bees Player of the year - David Gaborcik Pictures: Kevin Slyfield

ICE HOCKEY

Bees celebrate an eventful year on ice DAVID GABORCIK was the big winner with two awards at the Bracknell Bees presentation evening.

With Bees’ participation in the EPIHL finished for the season, having missed out on a play-off place, this annual celebration rounds off the 2016/17 campaign.

And Gaborcik picked up two trophies on the night in the player of Best British player - Carl Thompson the season and defenceman of the year categories.

Carl Thompson also won two awards with the players’ player and best British player crowns.

Shaun Thompson was named forward of the year, Matt Foord was awarded the coaches’ player gong while youngster Rio Grinnel-Parke was named most improved player.

Other awards went to Scott Spearing (unsung hero) and John Slater (ambassador).

Forward of the year - Shaun Thompson Most improved player - Rio Grinnel-Parke

Coaches player - Matt Foord

Ambassador - John Slater

READING ROCKETS end the regular season in third place after falling to Manchester Magic – a third defeat on the spin.

An astonishing run of 19 successive victories left Rockets in with a chance of clinching top spot, but back-to-back defeats last weekend followed by the latest reverse means they have to settle for third spot in NBL Division One. It looked like being a convincing defeat on the road for Manuel Pena Garces’ men when they trailed by 17 points during the third quarter, but a spirited fightback took the contest to the final few seconds, only for Magic to snatch the win.

The defeat sets up a play-off quarter-final clash for Rockets (20-6) with sixth-placed Team Solent Kestrels (15-10) at Rivermead on Sunday (5pm).

“The last couple of games have been difficult for us,” admitted head coach Pena Garces.

“We are a little disappointed not to have been champions or finish runners-up, but we cannot dwell on this.

“If anything, these losses have provided us with a lot of learning and I think the response we saw in the second half against Manchester and in the preparation we have done this week shows we have taken another step.

“We will be a challenge for any team in the play-offs.”

Early fouls proved costly against Manchester with key trio Danny Carter, Craig Ponder and Chris Hooper all penalised by the officials, the latter two forced to spend a spell on the bench.

A 10-point Hooper haul kept the scores tight at 19-18 at the end of the first, but the hosts were firmly in control by the break, racing into a 40-29 lead.

The largest Rockets travelling crowd of the season saw their side fall 17 points down, but scores from Carter and Juan Valerio sparked a comeback, reducing the deficit to 5246 by the end of the third.

And a storming start to the fourth saw Reading embark on an 8-0 run to take the lead at 54-52 before Magic called a time out.

The halt in momentum worked for Manchester as they regrouped to go back ahead, despite Ali Sbai’s first treble of the evening.

A huge three-pointer from Carter saw the game split by just a single point with 14.9 seconds to play but when Ponder’s last gasp effort rolled off the ring and away, the game was gone.

“I was really pleased with our fight and determination against Manchester after being 17 down,” said Pena Garces.

“To be within one lay-up of tying the game late on after battling so hard, I am pleased and confident we know what we have to do this weekend.

“But it will be tough. It is a ‘one and done’ game against Team Solent, who will be really ready to challenge us.

“They possess many dangers that we will need to study and prepare for.”

Rockets, who have won all three meetings with Kestrels so far this season, will once again be without Joel Keeble (wrist) and Ibu Jassey Demba (hand). Fidel Gomez De Enterria Lopez and Bikram Rana will face late fitness tests.

Reading Rockets head coach Manuel Pena Garces

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A low scoring first quarter ended with Coventry 4-2 ahead, but a storming second quarter display saw Reece Barker, Joe Humphreys, Burton and Chris Nash all on target to open up an 18-8 lead.

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Rockets end in third place Manchester Magic 75 Reading Rockets 71

Bees Player of the year - David Gaborcik Pictures: Kevin Slyfield

ICE HOCKEY

Bees celebrate an eventful year on ice DAVID GABORCIK was the big winner with two awards at the Bracknell Bees presentation evening.

With Bees’ participation in the EPIHL finished for the season, having missed out on a play-off place, this annual celebration rounds off the 2016/17 campaign.

And Gaborcik picked up two trophies on the night in the player of Best British player - Carl Thompson the season and defenceman of the year categories.

Carl Thompson also won two awards with the players’ player and best British player crowns.

Shaun Thompson was named forward of the year, Matt Foord was awarded the coaches’ player gong while youngster Rio Grinnel-Parke was named most improved player.

Other awards went to Scott Spearing (unsung hero) and John Slater (ambassador).

Forward of the year - Shaun Thompson Most improved player - Rio Grinnel-Parke

Coaches player - Matt Foord

Ambassador - John Slater

READING ROCKETS end the regular season in third place after falling to Manchester Magic – a third defeat on the spin.

An astonishing run of 19 successive victories left Rockets in with a chance of clinching top spot, but back-to-back defeats last weekend followed by the latest reverse means they have to settle for third spot in NBL Division One. It looked like being a convincing defeat on the road for Manuel Pena Garces’ men when they trailed by 17 points during the third quarter, but a spirited fightback took the contest to the final few seconds, only for Magic to snatch the win.

The defeat sets up a play-off quarter-final clash for Rockets (20-6) with sixth-placed Team Solent Kestrels (15-10) at Rivermead on Sunday (5pm).

“The last couple of games have been difficult for us,” admitted head coach Pena Garces.

“We are a little disappointed not to have been champions or finish runners-up, but we cannot dwell on this.

“If anything, these losses have provided us with a lot of learning and I think the response we saw in the second half against Manchester and in the preparation we have done this week shows we have taken another step.

“We will be a challenge for any team in the play-offs.”

Early fouls proved costly against Manchester with key trio Danny Carter, Craig Ponder and Chris Hooper all penalised by the officials, the latter two forced to spend a spell on the bench.

A 10-point Hooper haul kept the scores tight at 19-18 at the end of the first, but the hosts were firmly in control by the break, racing into a 40-29 lead.

The largest Rockets travelling crowd of the season saw their side fall 17 points down, but scores from Carter and Juan Valerio sparked a comeback, reducing the deficit to 5246 by the end of the third.

And a storming start to the fourth saw Reading embark on an 8-0 run to take the lead at 54-52 before Magic called a time out.

The halt in momentum worked for Manchester as they regrouped to go back ahead, despite Ali Sbai’s first treble of the evening.

A huge three-pointer from Carter saw the game split by just a single point with 14.9 seconds to play but when Ponder’s last gasp effort rolled off the ring and away, the game was gone.

“I was really pleased with our fight and determination against Manchester after being 17 down,” said Pena Garces.

“To be within one lay-up of tying the game late on after battling so hard, I am pleased and confident we know what we have to do this weekend.

“But it will be tough. It is a ‘one and done’ game against Team Solent, who will be really ready to challenge us.

“They possess many dangers that we will need to study and prepare for.”

Rockets, who have won all three meetings with Kestrels so far this season, will once again be without Joel Keeble (wrist) and Ibu Jassey Demba (hand). Fidel Gomez De Enterria Lopez and Bikram Rana will face late fitness tests.

Reading Rockets head coach Manuel Pena Garces

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL

Kings’ win was ‘a proper fight’ and a cracking result CAPTAIN Wayne Burton says Thames Valley Kings’ victory over Coventry was “a proper fight”.

A low scoring first quarter ended with Coventry 4-2 ahead, but a storming second quarter display saw Reece Barker, Joe Humphreys, Burton and Chris Nash all on target to open up an 18-8 lead.

Further scores from Nash, Barker and Vickie Simmonds after the restart preserved the lead before some late baskets thwarted any Coventry hopes of a comeback with Kings winning 38-22.

“It was a cracking result,” said Burton.

“We weren’t perfect but there was some great basketball

played at times.

“Everybody worked hard and we put up a proper fight to win the game.”  MICHELLE BAILEY is set to run the Paris marathon in a bid to raise funds for Thames Valley Kings.

Bailey is aiming to raise £500 for taking part in the 26.2 mile course to continue to help the club grow.

“Small charities are often overlooked and I’m hugely impressed by the time the volunteers put in to the club alongside their full-time jobs,” she said.

“I hope that by running for them I can help raise their profile and some much needed funds.”

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GOLF MATTERS With Bearwood Lakes’ JON DRY

Improve your rhythm for better ball striking and more distance

Top to bottom, left to right: Joel Forrester (coach), Beccy Gavin, Sinead Adamski, Lucy Faulkner, Fran Weeks, Chrissi Allan, Mai-Po Wan (capt), Katie Pake, Wendy Doolin, Kristin Cooper, Gemma Waddington, Anne Oke, Frankie Knight, Claire Hickey, Rita Chaher, Bryony Pusey, Anneliese Churchill, Katharine Pike, Rosemary Scales (GK)

HOCKEY

Victors remain unbeaten

By TOM CROCKER tcrocker@wokinghampaper.co.uk

GOALS from Mai-Po Wan and Lucy Faulkner ensured Sonning Ladies ended their title-winning season as unbeaten champions.

Joel Forrester’s side clinched the Trysports Premier 1 crown last weekend, but went out in style to end with a record of played 22, won 19, drew 3, lost 0 with a 2-0 success against Oxford 2s.

On the flip side, it was a forgettable end to the campaign for SONNING 2s after they were thrashed 9-0 by runnersup Amersham and Chalfont 1s with Jess Reus, Alice Keddy and Katie Moore among the scorers.

SOUTH BERKSHIRE 1s end the season in fourth place after losing 2-1 at home to Oxford University 2s at Cantley Park.

SOUTH BERKSHIRE 2s completed their relegation campaign in Premier 2 with an impressive 2-0 victory over third-placed Newbury and Thatcham 1s.

Jordy Swanborough, Jill Wennington and Mary Jones all found the net as SONNING 3s took a huge step closer to promotion from Division 2 with a superb 3-0 win over leaders Reading 3A. Sonning wrap up their campaign

at Wychwood on Saturday, knowing victory would see them promoted as champions, while defeat could see them miss out on a top two spot altogether.

SOUTH BERKSHIRE 3s’ struggles in Division 3 this campaign ended with a 2-1 loss at Thame 2s. Berks will finish ninth in the 12-team league with just four wins.

But it is even worse for SOUTH BERKSHIRE 4s, whose relegation from Division 4 was confirmed with a 3-0 loss at Newbury and Thatcham 3s.

Despite still having a game to play, Berks are at the foot of the table and now four points from safety.

SONNING 3s earned a point from a 3-3 draw at Gerrards Cross 2s.

Elsewhere, SONNING VETERANS were beaten but there was a victory for SONNING 5s.

Men

BRACES from Sam Fox-Harvey, Daniel Ray, Will Simpson and Chris Fifield kept SOUTH BERKSHIRE 1s’ promotion hopes in their own hands.

Berks, who thrashed Henley 2s 9-2 with Ben Dudley also on the score sheet, sit third in MBBO Division 1, but know victory on the final day of the campaign

will seal a top two spot.

But SOUTH BERKSHIRE 2s are left sweating on relegation after finishing second-bottom, despite Mike Baylis and Rob Pace goals earning them a 2-1 win at West Hampstead 3s.

SONNING 2s are safe after edging out Ashford 2s 3-2 with Matt Poulton (2) and Adam Pusey on target.

Up in Regional 2, James Manser’s four-goal haul earned third-placed SONNING 1s victory over Staines 2s.

Ian Gallagher also netted for Sonning in the 5-3 victory, but Manser has now overtaken Gallagher as the club’s top scorer this season, leading 17-15 going into the final game.

SOUTH BERKSHIRE 3s’ promotion hopes took a dent as they lost 4-2 at West Hampstead 4s in Division 3 while SONNING 3s were well beaten 4-0 at Wallingford 2s.

SONNING 4s remain deep in trouble in Division 5 after losing 2-1 against Ramgarhia 2s and in the same league SOUTH BERKSHIRE 4s earned a good point against Oxford 5s.

Elsewhere there were wins for SOUTH BERKSHIRE 5s and SOUTH BERKSHIRE TERRIERS but SONNING 5s, 6s and 7s all lost.

NETBALL

Teams invited to sign up for launch of new ‘fun’ league NETBALL players from across the borough are being urged to register their interest for a new league starting next month.

Run by Leagues4you Limited, a new ‘fun league’ held at Wokingham’s St Crispin’s School on London

Road is due to start on April 20.

Games last 40 minutes with the season running for between 10 and 14 weeks at a cost of £30 per team, which works out at around £4.30 per player per week.

Any players aged 14 or

over are eligible with the emphasis on getting more women into sport.

Kit, umpires and fixtures are all arranged by the league with no sign-up fees required for the teams.

The first two weeks on

April 20 and 27 will be taster sessions from 7-9pm.

For more information visit leagues4you.co.uk, the company’s Facebook page or contact the Berkshire League coordinator Debbie Eden at debbieeden@ leagues4you.com.

I

T ALWAYS amazes me when I sit and watch the top players in the world just how they manage to hit the ball so far with such ease.

It is even more remarkable when you compare their incredible power to club golfers who appear to be “jumping out of their shoes” to hit the ball as far as they can.

So what can we learn from the world’s best to help us hit the ball further?

One of the things that stands out in the modern game is just how fit and strong many of the players are.

They are often in the gym more than once a day trying to ensure their body is in the best possible shape to hit the ball as far as possible without losing any accuracy.

Sadly, very few club golfers have the time available to be hitting the gym twice a day in a bid to gain a few yards.

However there are some things we can do which won’t take several hours per week, which will help us improve our distance from the tee.

One aspect of their swings which we can all learn from and incorporate into our own game is rhythm!

The likes of Dustin Johnson and

Rory McIlroy are hitting the ball incredible distances but remain balanced and controlled throughout.

Try hitting some shots with a smooth backswing, waiting to complete the movement before you start your downswing.

If you have ever seen Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama’s swing you will notice how he actually pauses at the top of his backswing before commencing his downswing. Give it a try and see what happens to your rhythm and timing.

A tip I have always enjoyed giving to golfers of all ages and abilities to work on rhythm is Chocolate Mousse.

Try saying “Chocolate” on your backswing and “Mousse” on your downswing. This is a great way to stop you trying hit the ball too hard and focuses you on a taking more time on your backswing than you do for your downswing.

It also encourages a gradual acceleration towards the golf ball allowing you to deliver the club with power and control.

Enjoy how balanced you feel during these swings and how easy it is to repeat your swing with the same rhythm time and time again.

Let me know how you get on!

Bearwood Lakes Golf Club, Bearwood Road, Wokingham RG41 4SJ

Phone: 0118 979 7900

j.dry@bearwoodlakes.co.uk

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NATIONAL LEAGUE 3 SOUTH

Jordan Souter produced a manof-the-match display for Redingensians Picture: Tim Pitfield

Narrow defeat for Bracknell Camborne 22 Bracknell 21 BRACKNELL’S impressive winning run came to an end with a narrow defeat to third-placed Camborne.

The Lily Hill side came into the game on the back of seven straight victories which propelled them up to sixth in National League 3 South West, but after two late sin-binnings, Camborne nipped in to sneak the win.

Daniel ap Dafydd’s men opted to make the 263-mile trip on Friday night in a bid to avoid any travel fatigue on the day, and they started well with Chris Laidler’s penalty just reward for their early display.

However, Camborne stormed back to move 10-3 ahead with a catch and drive try before a wayward pass was latched onto by forward Ashley Lawton to score.

Bracknell’s pack began to take control of the contest with the scores reduced to 10-8 as the ball was worked out to captain James Ingle to dab down.

The tries kept coming with the hosts opening up a gap again with a try from a back-rower and the successful conversion gave the Cornish side a 17-8 advantage.

But there would be just three points in it by the break courtesy of two more Laidler penalties and it could have been even better had Lewis Franklin connected with his chip over the top.

The lead did change hands shortly after the restart, though, as Dom Rice crashed over with Tony Lawless adding the extras.

Bracknell missed a penalty to extend their lead and were made to pay. With both Jasper Miranda and Kim Plant sent to the bin, Camborne made their extra men count to get the winning points with Rhys Brownfield scoring his side’s fourth try.

The visitors kept plugging away and piled on the late pressure, but a missed drop goal attempt signalled the end of the pulsating contest.

Still sixth, Bracknell host struggling Bromsgrove on Saturday (3pm).

NATIONAL LEAGUE 2 SOUTH

Rams shut out Canterbury for memorable win Canterbury 0 Redingensians Rams 15

when Tom Vooght was sent to the sin bin.

Man-of-the-match Jordan Souter led the defence and even when he was breached, the back three of Olly Foxley, Jak Rossiter and Conor Corrigan all produced try saving challenges.

The hosts crossed the whitewash just past the half hour mark, but were held up.

This allowed Rams to go in at half-time in front when Jacob Atkins kicked the only points of the first period.

An Ollie Taylor try just before the

hour mark following a catch and drive put some daylight between the sides, although Atkins missed the conversion in windy conditions.

And when Atkins did convert a penalty try with 10 minutes to play, victory looked well in sight for the Rams.

“We knew Canterbury would be a tough side to contain on their own ground,” said backs coach Seb Reynolds.

“Their half backs like to get their pacy wingers and full backs into the game and their centres run hard and direct.

“Our boys were fantastic in keeping them out.”

Redingensians stay seventh and welcome Clifton to Old Bath Road on Saturday (2.30pm). n CROWTHORNE suffered a first defeat in three as they were well beaten by Drifters in Berks, Bucks and Oxon Premier.

The Crows, who sit sixth in the table, lost out 52-14 to a Drifters side who secured promotion with this win.

Crowthorne return to action at Princess Marina Drive on Saturday with Hungerford the visitors (3pm).

BRACKNELL: Slade, Bayliss, Burch, Hopkins, Yates, Laidler, Franklin, Mirza, Miranda, Ovens, Bailey, Plant, Rice, Haddad, Ingle (c). Reps: Challenor, Field, Lawless.

REDINGENSIANS got straight back to winning ways in National League 2 South with a shut-out against Canterbury.

Rams, whose five game winning run was halted against Old Elthamians last time out, returned to the victory trail courtesy of two second half tries.

Mike Tewkesbury’s men had not beaten Canterbury since their promotion to this level and had to survive an early spell of pressure

RUGBY

LONDON IRISH

Tewkesbury prepares to wind down

Exiles see perfect run come to an end

REDINGENSIANS chairman Andy Lynch has paid tribute to the “fantastic job” done by head coach Mike Tewkesbury as he winds down his management career.

Tewkesbury is set to step down from the Rams top job and retire at the end of the season with backs coach and the club’s second highest try scorer of all time Seb Reynolds to take the hotseat.

“Mike has done a fantastic job developing young players and coaches in Berkshire,” said Lynch. “I am delighted that Mike will be continuing to develop all our club’s coaches as director of coaching.

“Although we will obviously miss someone of Mike’s experience, I am thrilled that he is handing over to Seb, who is not only part of the coaching team that got us to National 2, but played with Redingensians for his whole career since joining at age 7.”

Jersey Reds 15 London Irish 11

By TOM CROCKER tcrocker@wokinghampaper.co.uk NICK KENNEDY apologised to the London Irish fans as the Exiles’ perfect run in the Greene King IPA Championship came to an end against Jersey.

Irish had won all 17 games since relegation to the second tier, clinching top spot with victory over Cornish Pirates last weekend.

Scott Steele’s try, a Ben Ransom drop goal and Theo Brophy Clews (pictured) penalty gave Exiles the lead, but Kennedy suffered his first league defeat as director of rugby at Saint Peter after a late Gary Graham try.

“I’d like to apologise to the supporters for not giving them the performance that they deserved,” said Kennedy.

“The supporters have been fantastic throughout the season both home and away and they really stepped it up at the weekend.

“The players, staff and everyone at the club is entirely grateful for their unwavering backing.”

Kennedy continued to ring the changes with six alterations from the victory over Pirates as Brophy Clews, Ciaran Hearn, Steele, Tom Court, Ollie Hoskins and Ofisa Treviranus all came in.

Around 1,000 travelling fans were given the perfect start as scrum-half Steele broke the deadlock after a series of drives from the pack, but Brophy Clews’ conversion was missed in the windy conditions.

But Jersey quickly got back on track, equalising when Nick Scott shrugged off Alex Lewington to go over in the corner.

Attacking into the strong wind was proving difficult for the Exiles,

but they did get their noses back in front courtesy of a drop goal by fullback Ransom.

However, it was level at the break at 8-8 after Callum Sheedy’s successful penalty.

Irish went back ahead soon after the restart thanks to Brophy Clews’ penalty and that is how it stayed until the dying moments with Graham crashing over.

The visitors pushed hard for one late chance to keep their winning run alive, but it was not to be.

“Credit must go to Jersey as they were superb in every department,” said Kennedy.

“Our performance wasn’t up to standard, which was disappointing

and we will need to do better in our next game.

“We’ve had a great season so far and we are in a good place at the moment. One defeat isn’t going to affect our plans as we prepare for the play-offs.”

The two sides meet again this weekend when Jersey travel to Madejski Stadium on Sunday (2pm) for the semi-finals of the British and Irish Cup. LONDON IRISH: Ransom, Lewington, Hearn (Tikoirotuma 67), Brophy Clews, Ojo, Marshall, Steele, Court (HobbsAwoyemi 52), Paice (c) (Porecki 67), Hoskins (Chawatama 61), Robson (Sexton 56), De Chaves, Narraway, Cowan, Treviranus (Nayalo 67).

Try: Steele (11) Pen: Brophy Clews (47) Drop goal: Ransom (36) Referee: Matthew Carley Attendance: 3,717

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Stam ready for Leeds READING v LEEDS Sky Bet Championship Madejski Stadium Saturday - 5.30Pm JAAP STAM says stopping the supply line to star striker Chris Wood will be key to Reading’s chances of beating Leeds on Saturday.

Wood is the leading scorer in the Championship with 24 goals so far and providing he shakes off a minor injury scare, will be a spearheading the attack for the visitors at the Mad Stad.

But Stam says it is not only down to the defenders to keep the New Zealander quiet.

“Wood is a goalscorer and can score from every position in the box,” said the Royals boss.

“Everybody needs to be aware of that. He needs to get the ball to score and if our players can prevent the other players from giving him the ball, then he’s not going to be scoring.

“So it’s not only the defenders who need to do well.”

Reading came into the game on the back of beating play-off rivals Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 just before the international break.

And Stam says confidence is high among the squad.

“It was a very good result and a very good performance,” he said.

“The confidence before that was already very good within the team.

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“That helps, of course, and by beating a side like Wednesday in a game like that, it makes it easier to step into the next game with confidence.”

He added: “Leeds have got a great side with quality players.

“They’re physical, hard to beat and we know that.

“It’s not going to be easy. They beat Brighton and we know what they can do.

“I’ve got the utmost respect for them in what they’ve been doing this season and they’ve been doing a great job.

“We need to be aware of certain things and sometimes be a bit more clever to get a result against a team like that.”

Stam was linked in a national newspaper this week with taking over as West Ham United manager in the summer. Unsurprisingly, the Dutchman quashed the speculation.

“There is no discussion now about leaving,” he said.

“I need to focus myself on the end of the season. What happens next season, happens next season.

I don’t really want to think about that. I’m enjoying myself here at Reading.”

Stam confirmed that Paul McShane, Jordon Mutch and Liam Kelly are all back available following injury while Tiago Ilori has also resumed training but Callum Harriott (hamstring), Anssi Jaakkola and Stephen Quinn (both knee) remain sidelined.

SHORTLIST

Swift up for player of year JOHN SWIFT has been named among a three-man shortlist for the EFL young player of the year award.

Swift, 21, only joined Reading in the summer on a free transfer from Chelsea and got his career in Berkshire off to a scintillating start.

The midfielder scored four goals in his first nine appearances in a Royals shirt and has gone on to score four more times since as a key part of Jaap Stam’s in-form side.

Swift will battle it out with Oxford United’s Ryan Ledson and Exeter City

forward Ollie Watkins for the prize, with the winner to be announced on April 9 at an awards ceremony in London.

Previous recipients of the trophy include star names Dele Alli and Gareth Bale during their spells with Milton Keynes Dons and Southampton respectively.

Swift is no stranger to awards having been named the Reading player of the month twice this campaign and also EFL young player of the month for January.

WE’RE at the business end of the season and every point counts for the Royals.

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READING FC

Bus passes to stay READING BUSES has announced it intends to keep the matchday services for over 65s until the end of the season.

Reading Borough Council had withdrawn the concessionary fare as part of its budget cuts but the bus company said it will offer a special £1 single fare or £2 return for people holding an older person’s concessionary pass.

The offer runs until the end of the season, when the service will be reviewed.

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HELLENIC DIVISION 1 EAST

Win strengthens promotion push Didcot Town Reserves 0 Woodley United 2 CHARLIE OAKLEY continued his fine scoring season with a late brace to see off Didcot Town Reserves.

The win strengthens Woodley’s grip on a promotion place in Hellenic Division One East with the Kestrels now six points clear of thirdplaced Headington Amateurs.

Despite Didcot struggling down in 11th, they gave a good account of themselves during an end-to-end first 15 minutes.

Woodley were creating decent openings but could not test Ashley Stevens in the home side’s goal.

The Railwaymen stepped up their charge before the break, but Woodley’s defence held firm. They would go on to secure a fourth clean sheet in the last five league games and preserve the best defensive record at step six in the country.

And the defensive work proved crucial, setting the base for Oakley to break the deadlock on 70 minutes as Josh Drew’s pass split the defence to set the striker in.

It was the same two players who combined for the second goal with Drew’s cut back from the byline tucked in by Oakley for his 24th of the season.

Woodley face their final away trip of the season this Saturday when they go to rockbottom Wantage Town Reserves, who remain without a point so far.

WOODLEY: Reed, Greenwood, Turner, Nicholls, I. Kamara, Barley, Drew (Kang 90+2), Morgan (A. Kamara 19), Oakley, Horscroft, Prestidge (Thomas 60). Subs not used: Wilson, Hoy. Attendance: 33

n The win at Didcot came just three days after Michael Herbert’s men had ground out three more huge points.

Woodley looked like being held to a stalemate

by AFC Aldermaston, only for Drew to pop up to fire in the winner in the 85th minute.

Aldermaston started the better of the two sides and had to be saved by the linesman’s flag after Kai Parton-Edey had headed home.

It took until gone an hour for a struggling Woodley to register a shot on goal with Oakley’s effort saved.

This seemed to spark United into life and they eventually found the breakthrough as Oakley headed the ball back across for Drew to notch his third goal in two games.

WOODLEY: Reed, Greenwood (Thomas 80), Turner, Nicholls, I. Kamara, Barley, Drew, A. Kamara (Morgan 34), Oakley, Horscroft, Wilson (Kang 86). Subs not used: Hooper, Hoy. Attendance: 47.

SUPPLEMENTARY CUP

Finch thumped by Fairford Finchampstead 0 Fairford Town 5 FINCHAMPSTEAD’S run in the Supplementary Cup came to an abrupt end at the third round stage with a thumping home defeat against Fairford.

In-form One East Finches struggled throughout against the One West leaders with Chace Jewell’s injury adding to a forgettable afternoon.

Jon Laugharne made three changes from the side which drew at Didcot Town Reserves with Jamie Curry, Matthew Wright and Sam Green all dropping out. In

came Chris Dean, Matthew Lambert and top scorer Harry Swabey.

Jewell had the first opening for the hosts, but Fairford took an early lead from the penalty spot as Nathan Blackford beat Neil Griffith in the 15th minute.

Griffith had to be alert to keep the score down but the lead was doubled when skipper Sam Ockwell slotted in from close range after poor marking from a corner.

And by half-time, Laugharne’s men had a mountain to climb as Blackford netted again with a well-placed header after Jewell had to leave the pitch

with a hamstring problem.

John Morse added a fourth for Fairford on 65 minutes before Levi Cox completed the rout to inflict a biggest loss of the season on Finchampstead.

Finches are in cup action again on Saturday, hosting Woodcote Stoke Row (3pm) for a place in the Reading Senior Cup semi-finals.

It is then a return to league action on Tuesday night with the short trip to Woodley United.

FINCHAMPSTEAD: Griffith, Barron, Dunn, Malone, Thomas, Barnard (c), Lambert, Dean, Swabey, Blatchford, Jewell. Subs: Winship, Stevens.

Attendance: 42

ROUND-UP

Twyford book place in Junior Cup final ANDY BENYON fired in a hat-trick as Twyford and Ruscombe booked their placed in the Berkshire Trophy Centre Junior Cup final.

Twyford and HURST were locked at 1-1 at the end of 90 minutes at Sol Joel after goals from Benyon and Reece Hawley.

But two more Benyon goals in extra time as well as a Jonathan Rabin strike secured a 4-1 win and a spot in the final against South Reading.

BERKS COUNTY ROVERS can start preparing for a cup semi-final after an extra time win over Westwood United Reserves 4-2 in the BTC Intermediate Cup. Westwood took a lead into half-time thanks to Thomas Bullion and George Bullion strikes, cancelling out a George Lloyd strike.

And Berks levelled on 76 minutes when Alex Hills found the net.

Both sides were reduced to 10 men with Oliver

Lawson and Simon Neale both given their marching orders, but further Berks goals from Lloyd and Miles Keeley were enough to take the win.

Berks face FINCHAMPSTEAD RESERVES in the last four.

In league action, WOODLEY UNITED RESERVES suffered first league defeat in four matches with a thumping 7-0 reverse against Woodcote Stoke Row in the

Premier Division with James Worsfold netting a hat-trick.

BERKS COUNTY did not fare much better, losing 6-2 against Taplow United as Marvin Hinds bagged a treble.

Finchampstead Reserves stay third in Division 2 after losing 2-1 to leaders White Eagles while in the same league, BARKHAM ATHLETIC lost out 4-2 to Maidenhead Magpies Reserves.

ASHRIDGE PARK were

beaten 3-2 by Brimpton, despite an Alex Malinov double and WOODLEY UNITED B picked up a win with goals from Martin King and David Burrow enough to beat BERKS COUNTY ROVERS. Ridesh Gurung netted for Berks, but Woodley ran out 2-1 victors.

In the Reading Sunday League, WOODLEY UNITED lost out 4-3 to Polonia Reading, despite goals from Rob Timbers, Ed Hill and Dan Blatchford.

LADIES FOOTBALL

Woodley up to third after sixth win Fleet Town Ladies 1 Woodley United Ladies 3 WOODLEY UNITED are up to third in the Southern Women’s First Division after recording a sixth straight win with victory over Fleet Town.

Fleet, who began the game with only nine players, put up a strong fight but Woodley went in ahead at half-time thanks to May Hamblin’s goal as she lobbed the goalkeeper after being set clear by Sophie Ali. Jo Harfield equalised soon after the restart with a long run and finish, but Woodley responded well.

Rosie Page-Smith saw an effort well saved and one cleared off the line before the visitors went back ahead on 74 minutes when Ellen Surtees (pictured) netted on the counter-attack.

And the game was sealed in stoppage time when Page-Smith finally got her goal.

Woodley face the short trip to Wargrave Ladies on Sunday (2pm).

WOODLEY: N. Haines, Ali, Barrett, Bloor, M. Haines, Hamblin, Newland, Stringer, Surtees, Wilkins, Page-Smith. Subs: Clarke, Hall, Vaughan.

n Wargrave go into that game on the back of a defeat after losing 4-3 at Wycombe Wanderers.

Jodie Penny netted a first half brace for the visitors with substitute Sian Blissett adding a third, but it was not enough to take any points.

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HELLENIC CHALLENGE CUP

Deja vu as Bracknell beat Binfield Bracknell Town 3 Binfield 1 BINFIELD’S hoodoo over rivals Bracknell continues.

The Moles suffered a fourth loss of the campaign against Mark Tallentire’s side on Tuesday night to crash out of the Hellenic Challenge Cup at the quarter-final stage.

Liam Ferdinand’s strike just past the hour mark gave Binfield hope as they pulled the game back to 1-1 after TJ Bohane’s opener, but late goals from Adam Cornell and Bohane again swung the tie.

With a number of cup-tied players, Roger Herridge rang the changes with Harrison Bayley, Grant Kemp and Munoda Nyamunga all dropping out. In came Danny Williamson, Sean Moore and goalkeeper Joel Driscoll.

Herridge said his side would need luck on their side and to

perform at the top of their game to halt the high-flying Robins, but they found themselves behind at the break when Bohane struck on 37 minutes.

But a 36th goal of the season from Ferdinand after the restart levelled the contest at Larges Lane.

Jon Bennett and Mo Davies were thrown on by the Moles, but it was Bracknell who produced the blows.

Cornell was first to tuck home, converting from close range after a Seb Bowerman cross, before Bohane quickly followed with a smart finish to take his goals tally to 40 for the campaign.

Binfield face Henley Town on Saturday before rounding off their league campaign against Oxford City Nomads on Wednesday night.

BINFIELD: Driscoll, Williamson, White, Broome, Brown, A. Walton, Pagliaroli (Bennett 77), M. Walton (Cook 15), Ferdinand, Knight, Moore (Davies 83). Subs not used: Nyamunga, Wiggins. Attendance: 251.

COMBINED COUNTIES DIVISION ONE

Robson hat-trick helps Boars win again Eversley and California 5 Cobham 0

YOUTH FOOTBALL

Schools up for the cup SCHOOLS from across the borough descending on Madejski Stadium on Friday to compete in the Development Cup. Designed for children who are not playing regular football for their school’s A teams, the tournament was arranged by the Wokingham District Primary Schools FA. Among those taking part were Keep Hatch, eventual winners Willow Bank, Finchampstead and Hawthorns.

Picture: Phil Creighton

LEWIS ROBSON scored a hat-trick as Eversley and California extended their three-month unbeaten home run with ease against Cobham.

The Boars have not been beaten at Fox Lane since December 13 and that never looked under threat on Saturday.

Robson broke the deadlock on 35 minutes after being set up by Sam Hutchings and he quickly added a second.

And Robson completed his treble after the restart before a late Bradley Brown brace.

“Very good from my lads today,” said manager Phil Ruggles.

“When we got going, I felt there was only one team in it. Solid win and three points.”

Eversley, who climb to fifth in Combined Counties Division One with this win, host sixth-placed Balham on Saturday (3pm).

EVERSLEY: Lusty, Aimable, Allston, Hutchings, Kamara, Miller, Osler, Smith, Spence, Robson, Brown. Subs: Exton, Lancaster, Obodo.

Results and fixtures RESULTS

Sunday, March 26

Saturday, March 25

FOOTBALL Southern Women’s First Division Fleet Town Ladies 1-3 Woodley United Ladies Wycombe Wanderers Ladies 4-3 Wargrave Ladies

FOOTBALL Hellenic Division One East Woodley United 1-0 AFC Aldermaston Hellenic Supplementary Cup Finchampstead 0-5 Fairford Town Combined Counties Division One Eversley and California 5-0 Cobham Thames Valley Premier Division Taplow United 6-2 Berks County Woodcote Stoke Row 7-0 Woodley United Reserves RUGBY Greene King IPA Championship Jersey Reds 15-11 London Irish National League 2 South Canterbury 0-15 Redingensians Rams National League 3 South West Camborne 22-21 Bracknell Berks, Bucks and Oxon Premier Drifters 52-14 Crowthorne HOCKEY MBBO Regional 2 Staines 2s 3-5 Sonning 1s MBBO Division 1 South Berkshire 1s 9-2 Henley 2s Trysports Premier 1 Sonning Ladies 1s 2-0 Oxford Ladies 2s South Berkshire Ladies 1s 1-2 Oxford University Ladies 2s BASKETBALL NBL Division One Manchester Magic 75-71 Reading Rockets

Tuesday, March 28 FOOTBALL Hellenic Challenge Cup Bracknell Town 3-1 Binfield Hellenic Division One East Didcot Town Reserves 0-2 Woodley United

FIXTURES (3pm unless stated) Saturday, April 1 FOOTBALL Sky Bet Championship Reading v Leeds United (5.30pm) Hellenic Premier Division Binfield v Henley Town Hellenic Division One East Wantage Town Reserves v Woodley United Wokingham and Emmbrook v Penn and Tylers Green Reading Senior Cup Finchampstead v Woodcote Stoke Row Combined Counties Division One Eversley and California v Balham Thames Valley Premier Division Berks County v Hurst (2pm) BTC Senior Cup Woodley United Reserves v Marlow United (2pm)

RUGBY National League 2 South Redingensians Rams v Clifton National League 3 South West Bracknell v Bromsgrove Berks, Bucks and Oxon Premier Crowthorne v Hungerford HOCKEY MBBO Regional 2 Sonning 1s v British Airways 1s (1.30pm) MBBO Division 1 Sonning 2s v South Berkshire 1s (12pm)

Sunday, April 2 FOOTBALL Southern Women’s First Division Wargrave Ladies v Woodley United Ladies (2pm) RUGBY British and Irish Cup London Irish v Jersey Reds (2pm) BASKETBALL NBL Division 1 play-offs Reading Rockets v Team Solent Kestrels (5pm)

Tuesday, April 4 FOOTBALL Sky Bet Championship Reading v Blackburn Rovers (8pm) Hellenic Division One East Woodley United v Finchampstead (7.45pm)

Wednesday, April 5 FOOTBALL Hellenic Premier Division Oxford City Nomads v Binfield (7.45pm)

Championship P Newcastle United 38 Brighton & Hove 38 Huddersfield Town 37 Leeds United 38 READING 38 Sheffield Wednesday 38 Fulham 38 Norwich City 38 Preston North End 38 Derby County 38 Barnsley 38 Aston Villa 38 Cardiff City 38 Brentford 38 Queens Park Rangers 38 Wolverhampton 37 Ipswich Town 38 Birmingham City 38 Bristol City 38 Nottingham Forest 38 Burton Albion 38 Blackburn Rovers 38 Wigan Athletic 38 Rotherham United 38

W 24 23 22 21 20 18 16 16 15 14 14 13 14 14 14 12 10 11 11 11 10 9 8 4

D 6 8 5 6 7 8 13 9 12 11 9 12 9 8 8 9 15 12 8 8 11 13 10 5

L 8 7 10 11 11 12 9 13 11 13 15 13 15 16 16 16 13 15 19 19 17 16 20 29

F 70 63 47 52 51 48 66 65 53 41 55 39 53 60 46 46 38 38 50 53 39 46 31 33

Hellenic Premier A GD 32 38 33 30 43 4 36 16 49 2 39 9 47 19 56 9 47 6 38 3 55 0 39 0 54 -1 57 3 51 -5 48 -2 47 -9 54 -16 53 -3 64 -11 53 -14 57 -11 44 -13 87 -54

Pts 78 77 71 69 67 62 61 57 57 53 51 51 51 50 50 45 45 45 41 41 41 40 34 17

Thames Valley League P W D L GD Marlow United 22 17 2 3 53 Woodcote Stoke Row 23 15 4 4 39 Reading YMCA 18 15 3 0 52 Newbury FC 21 15 2 4 39 Cookham Dean 22 11 3 8 16 Mortimer 23 10 2 11 -7 Wraysbury Village 24 10 2 12 -17 Unity 23 9 2 12 1 WOODLEY UTD RES 24 9 2 13 -32 BERKS COUNTY FC 23 8 3 12 -24 Highmoor Ibis Res 20 7 4 9 -4 Taplow United 22 6 3 13 -13 Rotherfield United 22 1 7 14 -35 HURST 23 2 1 20 -68 * Denotes points adjustment

PTS 53 49 48 47 36 32 32 29 29 27 22 * 21 12 * 7

P W Thame United 32 25 BRACKNELL TOWN 32 25 Flackwell Heath 34 23 Thatcham Town 33 21 Ardley United 33 19 Highworth Town 31 18 Brimscombe & Thrupp 31 17 BINFIELD 32 14 Lydney Town 31 13 Royal Wootton Bassett 33 14 Tuffley Rovers 30 12 Longlevens AFC 32 10 Highmoor-Ibis 30 7 Brackley Town Saints 30 8 Ascot United 30 7 Oxford City Nomads 31 5 Burnham 33 6 Henley Town 32 4 *Denotes points adjustment

D 5 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 3 5 3 8 3 4 6 1 4

L 2 4 7 8 10 9 10 14 13 16 13 19 15 19 19 20 26 24

GD 70 76 53 42 21 31 23 6 -1 -4 3 -16 -28 -53 -28 -42 -86 -67

Trysports Premier 1 Pts 80 78 73 67 61 58 55 46 44 42 * 41 33 29 27 25 21 19 16

Hellenic Division 1 East P Penn & Tylers Green 22 WOODLEY UNITED 21 Headington Ams 21 FINCHAMPSTEAD 24 AFC Aldermaston 23 Bicester Town 21 Chalfont Wasps 20 Rayners Lane 22 Chinnor 22 Sandhurst Town 22 Didcot Town Res’ 22 WOKI & EMMBROOK 20 Holyport 24 Wantage Town Res’ 22

W 18 15 13 13 12 10 8 9 8 7 7 5 6 0

D 3 3 3 1 0 3 6 3 4 6 4 6 2 0

L GD Pts 1 64 57 3 25 48 5 34 42 10 11 40 11 11 36 8 11 33 6 2 30 10 -6 30 10 -13 28 9 -6 27 11 -3 25 9 -7 21 16 -17 20 22 -106 0

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P W D L F A GD Pts SONNING 1S 22 19 3 0 67 17 50 60 Am & Chalfont 1s 22 17 3 2 88 19 69 54 Maidenhead 2s22 12 5 5 42 28 14 41 S Berkshire 1s 22 9 6 7 46 34 12 33 Oxford Hawks 3s 22 9 4 9 35 37 -2 31 Oxford Ladies 2s 20 9 2 9 45 46 -1 29 Wallingford 1s 21 7 6 8 51 45 6 27 Oxford Uni 2nd 22 7 3 12 37 67 -30 22 Sonning Ladies 2s 22 6 3 13 24 46 -22 21 Oxford Ladies 3s 21 4 6 11 24 48 -24 18 Wycombe 2s 20 2 5 13 15 50 -35 11 Aylesbury 1s 22 2 6 14 16 53 -37 10

IPA Championship

P W D L F A BP LONDON IRISH 18 17 0 1 608 282 14 Yorkshire Carnegie 18 13 0 5 543 414 13 Ealing Trailfinders 18 11 1 6 492 365 9 Doncaster 18 11 0 7 485 382 10 Jersey 18 10 0 8 411 410 12 Cornish Pirates 18 9 1 8 487 422 12 London Scottish 18 7 0 11 417 487 11 Bedford 18 6 0 12 429 486 13 Nottingham 19 6 1 12 373 523 8 Rotherham Titans 19 4 1 14 330 574 4 Richmond 18 4 0 14 295 525 5 *London Welsh’s results have been expunged.

PTS 82 65 55 54 52 50 39 37 34 22 21

EPIHL P W OW OL L PIM F Telford Tigers 48 33 7 3 5 737 221 MK Lightning 48 28 6 3 11 856 174 Basingstoke Bison 48 29 1 1 17 940 168 Peterboro Phantoms 48 27 2 2 17 575 186 Guildford Flames 48 20 2 5 21 905 175 Swindon Wildcats 48 14 8 4 22 816 156 Hull Pirates 48 20 0 2 26 878 162 Sheffield Steeldogs 48 9 2 6 31 1068 153 BRACKNELL BEES 48 6 2 4 36 804 114 *Manchester Phoenix’s results have been expunged

A 128 124 112 141 171 170 201 225 237

Pts 83 71 61 60 49 48 42 28 20

WOKINGHAMSPORT

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NEW ERA DAWNS: ‘One club philosophy’

— Page 34 READING FC

Yann: ‘Next year will be my last’

SUMAS SHAKE-UP EXCLUSIVE

By TOM CROCKER tcrocker@wokinghampaper.co.uk

WOKINGHAM AND EMMBROOK will have a new chairman from next season after a massive shake-up at the club.

Steve Williams, the current head of the youth section committee, is set to step up to lead both the youngsters and seniors with Sumas aiming to adopt a new ‘one club’ philosophy.

The move has been prompted by the resignations of longserving club members Mark Ashwell and Graham Tabor, who operated as president and chairman respectively, while first team manager Clive McNelly has opted for a career change, taking over as owner of The White Horse Pub on the Easthampstead Road.

Vice chairman Neil van den Dungen and treasurer Jane Rance have also stepped down with a host of names from the youth section continuing in the dual roles.

And Williams (pictured inset), who also runs a Sumas Under-15s side, feels now is a good moment to make some changes.

“I think it was just the right time,” Williams told The Wokingham Paper.

“The main change was Clive leaving to run a pub as a career move, which takes up a lot of his time and means he can’t do a lot of the stuff at the club.

“Running a pub and a football team is virtually impossible because your peak working hours are when the team will be training and playing football.

“I think it’s like the end of an era and it prompted the others to say, ‘It’s time to step down’.

“So we took the decision that we would just go back to being one club, Wokingham and Emmbrook FC, rather than split into senior and youth sections.”

Jonathan Hales moves into a vice chairman role having previously played a key part in the youth committee.

One area that will soon need addressing is that of the first team manager post when McNelly leaves the role at the end of the season.

First team coach Jamie Shepherd is expected to stay but Williams would not be drawn on who might take the job, but admits new faces will need to be brought in in a number of areas.

“Jamie is staying on and we’ll be looking for people to help him,” he said.

“I think there’s a number of names in the hat that have

stepped forward saying yes, I’d like to be involved. But there’s nobody I could say yet until they’ve said ‘yes’ definitely.

“We don’t want to bandy names around and then it turns out that they’re not going to do it.”

He added: “Clive’s done a great job and Matt (Eggleston) and Dan (Bateman) did a great job before him.

“We’re not hoping for a mass exodus.

“I’m sure that during the summer we’ll be having trials and advertising and getting people along to hopefully keep it all going and improve it.

“Neil (van den Dungen) has certainly said he’s happy to carry on. We’ve got a lot going on already within the youth section with 40 plus sides, so we will need to bring people in.”

Despite taking on this added responsibility of four senior sides, including those competing in Sunday leagues, Williams is keen to retain a strong focus on the younger teams.

And he hopes players within the borough will soon see a clear pathway from youth to adult football with the Sumas.

“We want to have a senior

section which a lot of the local clubs don’t have for our players to aspire to,” said the new chairman.

“We’ve got about 36 players at U15s who will move through to U18s and then a lot of them will go off to university and do other things.

“But a number of them, if they enjoy their football, will want to move on to adult football.

“I think that’s one of the reasons why we would like to bring the Sunday teams in-house because they could be at a level where some of our younger players could step up into.

“If you talk to ex-Sumas boss Roger Herridge, he will say that a lot of the players that came through when he was there were players that came through the youth section.

“That’s what it’s all about.

“You don’t want your players clearing off when they get to a certain level and saying, ‘I’ve played for Wokingham since I was U7 and now I’m off to play for Finchampstead or Ascot or Bracknell’.

“You want them to be able to aspire to something.”

YANN KERMORGANT has revealed that he plans to retire at the end of next season.

The French striker, 35, put pen-to-paper on a new contract last month, which expires in June 2018.

And Kermorgant, who has been a key part of Reading’s playoff push all season, says no matter what happens, that will be the last contract he signs.

“Next season will be my last season,” he said.

“I am sure. Even if I score 20 goals next season.

“That’s why I would love to get the promotion and finish with my last one in the Premier League.

“It would be a dream. But whatever happens it will be my last season.

“I think you have to be mentally ready to say ‘this is my last year, then I will go and start another life’.

“I think I am ready for that next season. It’s been a long time now and I’ve been away from my family and my friends. It is not easy not only for me but also my wife.

“After football I think I will go into investment.”

In his 15 years as a professional, Kermorgant has had just two shots at top flight football.

The first came during a loan spell with French side Arles-Avignon in 2010, before beginning the last campaign at Bournemouth, only to leave and join the Royals midway through the campaign.

“When we got promoted with Bournemouth, I had a great season in the Championship,” said Kermorgant.

“I knew I would not be the main striker in the Premier League because of my age and you’ve got more competition for your place.

“But I did not expect not to be given any chance. I didn’t start one game, not even the first one.

“It was difficult to take, but that’s football and we know how ruthless it can be.

“To be in a position where I could get back in the Premier League now at almost 36, that would be amazing.”

After beating Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 before the international break, Reading remain in the play-off spots and know victory over Leeds United on Saturday at Madejski Stadium (5.30pm) will lift them up to fourth.

“We all know it’s a test,” said Kermorgant.

“We know we could maybe play each other in the first game of the play-offs if we stay in this position.

“It will be good mentally to get the win at home and for them I think they will try to do the same.

“We feel very confident at home and with two games coming at home this week (with Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday), it is really good for us.” n For your chance to WIN tickets to Reading v Blackburn and for more Leeds preview, turn to page 37.

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