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News Archive - Week Beginning 7th June 2009
The editors say: BEWARE: lots of roads in south Oxon (i.e. north of Caversham) have just been liberally covered with gravel. They're dangerous for motorists and lethal for motorcycles and cyclists, let alone horses and pedestrians. And the roads aren't even mended first. Cretinous.
Caversham People
Caversham restaurateur Yamina Siadatan, the co-owner of Mya Lacarte in Prospect Street, was the winner of the BBC TV 'The Apprentice' series for 2009, shown on the evening of Sunday, June 7th. Yasmina's mother (described by the faintly creepy Nick Hewer as a "yummy mummy") is interviewed by the 'Post', and describes her daughter as "a fiery one". Her brother Matthew will continue to run the award-winning restaurant. The Post's Diary (rightly) asks "all that for a sales job?", wondering why Ms Siadatan is to forsake "running a trendy eatery like Mya Lacarte", instead taking up Sir Alan Sugar's lame enticement of selling digital advertising to the NHS. The tiresome and much trumpeted 'six figure salary' offered by 'the vast business empire' of Amstrad is mentioned along the way. (Reading Post, 10/06/09 pp1,3,24, Reading Chronicle 11/06/09 p6)
Churches
The new parish centre built in the car park of St Barnabas Church, Emmer Green was to open on Thursday, June 11th - marking St Barnabas Day, and also marking the 80th anniversary of the current church building. On Sunday, June 14th, a pirate-themed family fun day takes place between 2pm and 5pm to celebrate the opening of the Centre, which received more than £350,000 of funding raised by the church's congregation. (Reading Post 10/06/09 p6)
Restaurants
The Channel 4 TV presenter Kirsty Allsopp is reported to have been 'raving' about the Caversham-based Alto Lounge on the social networking site Twitter this week. (Reading Evening Post 10/06/09 p24)
Roads
Council proposals to impose parking restrictions along the sides of the Henley Road were discussed at an RBC traffic panel management meeting last Tuesday, June 9th. Councillors have recommended proceeding with restrictions near Westfield Road and Cromwell Road, but to carry out a review and consultation on the rest of Henley Road. The Council has received 23 objections, mainly from local residents. One local resident told the RBC: "double yellow lines will cause us, and many other residents, daily hardship ... " (Get Reading 12/06/09 p20)
Sport
A letter identifies a photo of the Caversham Park Juniors (previously published in the 'Post'), dating from February 1971, when they were the runners-up in the South Chiltern League Cup. (Get Reading 12/06/09 p48)
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