Opinion

Government funding for councils is simply not keeping pace with increasing demand and rising costs for vital services, the finance chief told us.

Our annual residents' surveys are a really valuable tool in giving you a voice to tell us what matters to you ? top of your wish list is better roads

This year Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday have coincided ? a fairly rare occurrence.

The Labour Party ditching its plan to spend £28 billion a year on green investments is a big step backward.

Yesterday I took the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to see businesses in Woodley Precinct.

In Reading, latest projections show the Council expects to pay an extra £20.6 million next year to deliver the services so many people rely on.

Next week is St Valentine's Day and the shops are already full of cards and chocolates, and the flowers will soon appear

It was perfect for the tired mum who wanted something a bit different, something intellectually and creatively stimulating, accessible during the day

Reading could be better and there are areas troubled by anti-social behaviour, but it's hardly the town overrun by yobs that Sir Keir tells us it is

I am very concerned by the rise in knife crime across the country and by the terrible incidents which have affected our community