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News Archive - Week Beginning 6th June 2010
The editors say: The news that the remnants of Led Zeppelin are not going to be reforming to play at Queen Anne's school in Caversham has left us all devastated and, frankly, speechless.
Festivals
A report on the fete day at Caversham Park Village on Saturday, June 5th says that the day raised £900 for the Caversham Park Village Association (CPVA). The event included ferret racing and a bucking sheep. One of the organisers, Morag Frew, said: ”it was brilliant, a really good fete day”. (Get Reading 11/06/10 p29)
Schools
An RBC licensing subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, June 8th granted Queen Anne’s School in the Henley Road a license permitting music, alcohol and outdoor dancing at the school – but limiting the license with conditions to just 25 such events a year. The granting of the license was despite protests from local residents in the Grosvenor and Derby Roads. The school’s bursar, Ed Hellings, said: “We’ve no intention of a Led Zeppelin Concert… …at Queen Anne’s. Over my dead body!” Despite the logistics of getting the remnants of Zep to play at Queen Anne’s, we think this attitude is a tad small-minded. (Reading Chronicle 10/06/10 p10, Get Reading 11/06/10 p10)
Services
The RBC corporate, community and external affairs scrutiny panel met on Wednesday, June 9th to discuss the Council’s ‘Thriving Neighbourhoods’ programme – which promotes community activities and the formation of new groups in deprived areas of town. The programme included in the Amersham Road area of Caversham a big event this summer to promote money, work and wellbeing. The panel has agreed to continue to look at the progress of the programme to see if it provides value for money. (Get Reading 11/06/10 p15)
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