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News Archive - Week Beginning 8th Dec 2008
Another quiet week for 'real' news as Christmas looms and inevitably dominates.
Crime
The Reading and District Cancer Care shop in the Gosbrook Road was broken into between 3.40am and 4.30am on Sunday morning, 7th December, with its safe being stolen. The safe was later recovered unopened and intact in Prospect Street - anyone with information on the burglary should contact PC Stuart Murdoch on 08458 505 505, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. (Reading Evening Post 11/12/08 p9)
The Reading Rapid Response Team, set up to give crime prevention and personal safety advice to local residents, was due to have paid a visit to St Martin's Precinct in Caversham last Tuesday. The team was set up with RBC input following an increase in offences in the town. (Reading Evening Post 09/12/08 p9)
Young People
The RBC is to invest £40,000 into improving skate park facilities at Clayfield Copse, with the work taking place before the school Christmas holidays. The improvements follow on from a Council-led consultation process with the skate park's users, and a majority of the funding (£26,000) resulted from the efforts of the skateboarders themselves, who applied (and successfully bid) for the funds from the Government's Youth Opportunity Fund. (Reading Chronicle 11/12/08 p16, Reading Evening Post, 09/12/08 p8)
Charity
A Caversham lady has left her entire £1.2m estate to the League of Friends of the Royal Berkshire Hospital - the largest donation that the charity has ever received. The money was left in the will of Lucette Hart, a resident of the Upper Woodcote Road, who died aged 85 in January 2007. (Reading Evening Post 12/12/08 pp 1,9)
Web sites
The RBC website has been ranked 360th out of a national survey of 460 local government sites conducted by the website testing service Sitemorse - which rated the site as poor on function, performance and metadata. The poor 'red' rating has led RBC opposition Conservative councillors to describe the findings as a "damning indictment", with calls for the site to be improved. (Reading Evening Post 08/12/08 p2)
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