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News Archive - Week Beginning 18th April 2010The editors say: These are strange times - not least the absence of any real local news of note! Coupled with a General Election that's set a new high for tedium and Local Elections that might as well not be happening for all the effort the parties seem to be putting in to them (which says a lot in its own right), and you have a very slow news week indeed.
EnvironmentUnder the headline 'always look on the flight side', a letter from a Richmond Road resident says: "on a positive note, it has been great not to be woken up by aircraft flying into Heathrow during the no fly zone".(Reading Chronicle 22/04/10 p14)PlanningA letter from Paul Bardos comments on the RBC's proposals for the redevelopment of Reading Station, saying that they include the closure of station approach and the relocation of bus interconnections over an area from Friar Street to Vastern Road – described as an "insane idea" that ranks with the one-way IDR idea for stupidity. Mr Bardos says that the developers of the scheme did not need the closure of Station Approach, and that the only people who seem to want it are the Council. He says: "I can only assume it is because they like wasting our money". (Reading Chronicle 22/04/10 p14)PoliceThere is further detail on the Caversham Neighbourhood Police Team's use of Twitter to keep in contact with local residents – with the team using the social networking resource to keep its 'followers' up to date with the latest witness appeals, meetings, events and day-to-day activities. Click here if you're interested. (Get Reading 23/04/10 p33)  |
