Reading

Prospect Park, in west Reading, and Palmer Park, in east Reading, have had new dedicated chess tables installed by Reading Borough Council

The annual event will return on Sunday, April 14, and see thousands of runners take part, ranging from elite athletes to those in fancy dress.

Of their green tally, 320 were new trees, while 86 were replacements for trees that had died.

The new 25-metre pool is to open this summer and they are starting to fill the eight-lane venue with the equivalent of 1.7 million bottles of water

Clive Jones, an elected hospital governor and also the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Wokingham, said the ward left patients no space for privacy

The University of Reading astronomer is preparing to use earth's most powerful telescope to investigate Saturn's very own auroral emissions

An engineering consultancy firm is to move its offices from the former Shinfield to Green Park

Key Cities is a cross-party coalition that wants to see a £4bn funding boost which they say will halt the collapse of local government

ITS Building People, based on Kings Road, organised a year of special events in honour of its golden jubilee.

Both Cllr Tony Page and Cllr Jason Brock were acknowledged at a full council meeting held last week, the last before the May 2 poll.