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Supporting Trans Day of Remembrance

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Reading Advice Network – never more needed

Organisations that help people get the advice they need in tough times have never been more needed. At the Reading Advice Network AGM on...

Proud to open Reading Pride 2022

I was immensely proud of our community last Saturday as we celebrated, protested and committed to continue to stand together for LGBT rights. I'm...

Mayor’s Boundary Walk

I was very proud to be the first Mayor (that we know of!) to "beat the bounds" of Reading since 1912. I did this...

Standing with Ukraine – Mayor’s Appeal

The empathy and generosity of people in Reading has once again shone through during the Ukrainian war, which is absolutely no surprise to me....

Not too late for the government to think again on Reading Gaol

Rachel writes: Reading Gaol Hug - thi is about more than donning a T-shirt Sunday, October 13, 2019 "It is incrediably disappointing that despite...

Call on Alok Sharma to think again on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill

I have written to Alok Sharma asking him to think again on his government's Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill. I am aware that...

Campaign for Government to bolster bereavement support in the workplace

National bereavement charity Sue Ryder, which runs Sue Ryder Duchess of Kent Hospice in Reading, has called on the Government to introduce a minimum...

No Child in Reading to go hungry this half term

I was furious last night that ALok Sharma and the majority of his Conservative colleagues voted against ensuring all our children are fed over...