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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 …

Editor’s blog: awe and wonder at midnight mass Read More

Once again a Reading theatre gives its audience something to cheer about. This time it’s Progress Theatre who, inits 68th season, give us Gaslight, a chilling tale with Jack Manningham …

Review: Gaslight at the Progress Theatre Read More

Reading Rep is presenting The Night Before Christmas this Christmas Reading Rep Reading Rep produce another magical production with an adaptation of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem ‘Twas The Night …

Review: ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas Read More

The sound of Christmas filled Reading’s town centre as the Salvation Army played carols to festive shoppers hunting for a bargain. Band members from Reading Central Corps of the Salvation …

Salvation Army puts Reading in Christmas spirit with carol singing Read More

A centre that helps Reading’s needy and disadvantaged people threw open its doors on Christmas Day to serve a special festive lunch. CIRDIC – the Churches In Reading Drop-in Centre …

Drop-in centre dishes up Christmas Day treats Read More

Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre Upper Woolhampton claims a piece of Hollywood glitz on Thursday May 15 as the Eric Whitacre Singers perform at Douai Abbey. Making his 2014 Newbury Spring …

Woolhampton hosts Grammy-winning singers Read More

A screenshot from the new online collection of Reading Museum Reading Museum Scrooge will be delighted – he can explore Reading’s Christmasses past without having to worry about waking up …

See town’s Christmasses past thanks to Reading Musuem Read More

War poet Wilfred Owen served in Dunsden Green before the Great War Wilfred Owen is one of our most famous war poets – and he has a local connection. ahead …

Dunsden’s trail marks war poet connection Read More