It’s midnight. All is quiet as people wait in their pews, expectantly. A bell rings – Christmas Day has started. The organ strikes up with – what else? – It Came Upon The Midnight Clear. The heady smell of insense wafts delicately…

Impressive numbers of Reading residents have already had their say on Activity and Interpretation plans currently being designed for the historic Abbey Quarter but there’s still time for you to have yours.

All-singing, all-dancing, all good clean fun … what good possibly go wrong in The Nativity Play Goes Wrong? Ian Legge If you’re going to see The Nativity Play Goes Wrong, what a Christmas treat you have in store. Reading Rep use a…

Oxford city centre was painted red and white on yesterday as 1,700 people dressed in Santa suits took part in the 2 mile festive fun run in aid of local hospice for children and young adults, Helen & Douglas House.

To welcome hungry festival goers to Reading, a town centre café served up free tea and toast on the first day of the Festival. Café 12, which opens in The Pavilion on Fridays from 10am to 2pm, held a Festival special on…

Cemetery Junction will be resurfaced over 10 days Phil Creighton Reading could be plunged into traffic chaos as a major junction out of the town is resurfaced in works planned to take place over 10 days. Cemetery Junction, which leads to the…

Here’s some news that’s Something Special – Cbeebies superstar Justin Fletcher will be tumbling back to The Hexagon this Christmas to rejoin the panto cast after a two-year break, which has included a stint voicing the Shaun The Sheep movie. Justin, who…

A taste of Scotland will come to Reading’s town centre this Friday night thanks to a Burns Supper, hosted at The Oasis in Baker Street. The former pub turned community centre is the venue for the traditional celebration of Scotland’s national poet,…