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News Archive - Week Beginning 11th July 2010
The editors say: We can only agree with the Guardian (and many others) when it comes to the need to keep BBC Monitoring - that very discrete but important employer in Caversham - funded properly. The local economy aside, it is a national asset.
BBC Monitoring
A 'Guardian' news item on Friday, 9th July reported that BBC Monitoring, the Caversham Park-based government-funded body that tracks and translates press, TV and radio reports from around the world, is in danger of budget cuts and significant job losses as part of the coalition government's austerity measures. The news item was followed by a 'Guardian' editorial that described BBC Monitoring as a 'priceless asset... ...a vital resource which should be kept'. RBC Councillor (and Caversham resident) Bet Tickner, who worked at Caversham Park, subsequently spoke in support of the site saying that 'it was as necessary today as it ever was', but a BBC statement said: 'we are also acutely aware that the prevailing economic climate will bring huge challenges and tough choices'. (Guardian 09/07/10, Guardian 14/07/10, Get Reading 16/07/10 p5)
Buses
A programme of bus shelter replacements in Reading will include a new shelter at Emmer Green Pond and Buckingham Drive (inbound) on Friday, July 16th, Buckingham Drive (outbound) on Thursday, July 22nd, Rotherfield Way on July 30th, St Barnabas Church and Kiln Road on August 25th and Grove Hill / Hemdean Road on September 24th. (Reading Chronicle 15/07/10 p15)
Caversham People
Kate Swanne, from Queen Anne's School in Henley Road, has been selected from 2,000 applicants to join the Great Britain Bobsleigh Talent Identification Programme, which signs up talented athletes. She is contending for a place in the 2014 Winter Olympics, which take place at Sochi in Russia. (Reading Chronicle 15/07/10 p15)
Charities
The Rotary Club of Caversham has its first female president - Frances Hill - who replaces former president John Buckley. (Reading Chronicle 15/07/10 p15).
Schools
A film festival hosted by Highdown School on July 7th is described in the 'Reading Post'. Students made videos using different techniques and for different subjects as part of the project, described by event organiser and art teacher Caroline Saynor as "a really wonderful evening and there were more people than I expected ..." (Reading Post 14/07/10 p19)
Sport
Reading Rowing Club has embarked on an ambitious £610,000 project to modernise the boathouse and raise the profile of the sport in the town. The project will be undertaken in two phases over a ten year period subject to final approval of a mew 99-year lease for The Boathouse at Thames Promenade with the RBC. (Reading Post 14/07/10 p3)
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