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ENTERTAINMENT PROMOTER MOVES CLUB AFTER GLASS ATTACK
03/09/2008 READING'S legendary Tuesday Student party has moved its venue in the wake of an incident in which a gay nightclubber was "glassed" in a completely unprovoked attack.
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POLICE: FOLLOW THE RULES TO BEAT THE BURGLAR
17/11/2008 THAMES Valley Police has launched a new Force-wide burglary public campaign.
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CELEBRITY LINKS: STAR NAMES WITH A READING CONNECTION
29/12/2008 THINK of stars with a connection to modern day Reading and Ricky Gervais, Kate Winslett, Chris Tarrant and Kenneth Branagh are probably the first names which come to mind - think old-time Reading, and there was Mr Huntley, Mr Palmer, and a certain Oscar Wilde. But there are many many more well-known people who were either born in Reading or live or have lived here.
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VIDEO LINK: CHECK THE LATEST FROM THE BBC NEWS CHANNEL
01/01/2009 READING Guide will offer video both directly and via link in 2009. Click into this item and follow the link to catch up with up-to-the-minute TV news from the BBC News Channel.
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POLICE LINKS: GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM
24/01/2009 AS well as raising cash for the Government with their ever-popular speed traps, and making sure their PC's are thoroughly PC, Thames Valley Police also have more traditional purposes such as preventing and punishing crime. Check out their latest initiatives and also find out who your community and neighbourhood officers are...
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FEATURE VIDEO: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN PLAY BASKETBALL...?
21/02/2009 ONE for any aspiring basketball player or NBA fan to enjoy...check the top ten moves...
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VIDEO SPECIAL: OSCAR-STAR KATE REMEMBERS READING ROOTS
26/02/2009 THE worst-kept Oscars secret ever became officially public when it was confirmed that Reading's Kate Winslet has finally landed that coveted gong. See her acceptance speech here...complete with a plug or two for Reading - and the Evening Post!
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CHECK OUT BERKSHIRE BOOKS FROM AMAZON.CO.UK!
02/04/2009 AMAZON is one of the great success stories of the internet - and now Reading Guide can offer you the very best of the world's hottest web merchant. These are books specifically about Berkshire and the Thames Valley...and all are available at the keenest prices with fast - and often free - delivery.
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READING-GUIDE.CO.UK 'RG-3B BLOG' - EDITOR JOHN WRITES...
09/05/2009 INTRODUCING the second episode of what will be a frequently-updated blog giving a purely personal and sometimes controversial view of local topics by the Editor of Reading-Guide.co.uk, "Our John". For younger folk who may not know the relevance of "3B"... until the 1990s Reading was universally known for its Biscuits, Beer and Bulbs (Huntley & Palmers Biscuits, Simonds Beer and Suttons Seeds), all, sadly, now gone from the town. Enjoy...
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MOVIES: WATCH LATEST FILM TRAILERS RIGHT HERE!
26/07/2009 READING Guide has a terrific bonus for the town's cinema fans - we bring you trailers for top movies new and old. Now click through to today's selections...
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FOOTBALL: YOUNG ROYALS GIVE CHELSEA MEGA-STARS A SCARE
03/08/2009 READING began burying the memories of their horrendous home form at the end of last season with a battling 2-2 draw against a full-strength Chelsea side at the Madejski Stadium on Saturday. The Royals, fielding a young, new-look line-up, were in fact within moments of a fantastic win - they were leading 2-0 in the final minute of regular time before Chelsea scored once and then equalised with a freak own goal in the dying seconds of added time.
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FOOTBALL: ROYALS HOPE SIGNING MILLS WILL BE A BOON
07/08/2009 READING have made their first signing of the summer, paying just over £2million for highly-rated Doncaster defender Matthew Mills. The 23-year-old Swindon-born centre-back started his career with Southampton, and has since played for Bournemouth, Coventry and Manchester City before joining Doncaster a year ago. He played 45 games for Rovers last season, and recently attracted bids of around £2million from both Birmingham and Nottingham Forest, but in the end he was persuaded by the Royals' ambition, and the technical reputation of new boss Brendan Rodgers.
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ROYALS GET THERE IN THE END WITH MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
06/09/2009 WHILE virtually every other club managed to complete and announce its deadline day transfer deals before or soon after the 5pm deadline on Tuesday, the Royals were still dribbling out details of their comings and goings almost 48 hours later.
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RUGBY UNION: STAVROS FLATLEY'S VIDEO PREVIEW LIFTS IRISH
10/09/2009 LONDON Irish, Reading's adopted professional Rugby Union team, finished third in the Guinness Premiership last season and this time they aim to go one, or preferably two, better. After a narrow defeat to Saracens at Twickenham, they open their home season with a match against Gloucester at the Madejski Stadium - with a secret weapon to get the crowd in the mood for a great day out!
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE ALBUM...THE CLEAR-UP AFTER THE FESTIVAL
13/09/2009 IT'S the day after the three days before... when an army of Reading Council workers move in to clear up the debris left by the 80,000 who attended the Reading Festival.
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE ALBUM - CAVERSHAM COURT RE-OPENS
17/09/2009 AFTER a year of restoration, at a cost of more than 1.2million pounds, Caversham Court Gardens has re-opened to the public - and Reading Guide was there to record the occasion in pictures.
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ENTERTAINMENT: TRAILERS AND MORE FROM SONY
22/09/2009
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VIDEO SEARCH - TRAWL THE NET FOR BEST FREE VIDEO
23/09/2009 Check here for a search engine taking you to more than 200 sites on the internet which offer free video.
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MISERY DAY AS ROYALS AND IRISH BOTH BLOW IT
17/10/2009 IT could have been a great day for the Irish, and a day of crowning glory for the Royals - but in the end both blew out after leading their matches. Irish lost 27-25 to Llanelli in the Heineken Cup at the Madejski Stadium, while Reading's footballers capitulated 3-1 at West Brom and with a quarter of the season gone now look like facing a long hard slog of a relegation battle.
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THE LATEST SPORTS VIDEOS FROM VIRGIN MEDIA
24/10/2009
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE ALBUM - READING'S CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
27/12/2009 READING claims to have "one of the best Christmas lights displays in the South", in three adjoining phases - the town centre, The Oracle, and Broad Street Mall. Reading Guide's verdict is that whilst the town centre lights are clearly expensive and expansive, they do have the benefit of significant corporate funding. The Oracle's display is fairly standard, despite some excellent individual efforts by their shops, so our vote for the best performance, pound-for-pound, goes to the somewhat unheralded Broad Street Mall.
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE ALBUM - IT'S SNOW-BUSINESS!
01/01/2010 FOR various reasons, possibly best-known to the local council, Reading was paralysed - and in fairness so was much of the region - by a sudden and unpredicted snowfall on December 21.
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TV NEWS VIDEO: TODAY'S HEADLINE STORIES FEATURED ON SKY TV NEWS
06/01/2010 READING Guide keeps you right up to date with the latest satellite TV news headlines.
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TV NEWS: CLICK FOR RIGHT UP TO THE MINUTE STREAMING FROM THE BBC NEWS CHANNEL
07/01/2010 CATCH up with the latest news on the BBC's rolling news channel.
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YOUR CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH TV PROGRAMMES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED - THE FULL SET
12/01/2010
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ROYALS AIMING FOR MORE FA CUP GLORY
22/01/2010 HAVING seen off Liverpool so magnificently in the third round of the FA Cup, Reading now face up to Burnley in the fourth round at the Mad Stad tomorrow lunchtime - with a huge score to settle. It was Burnley who ultimately ended the Royals' hopes of a quick return to the Premier League at the end of last season, winning both legs of the Championship play-off semi-final. Although the aggregate read 3-0, it was a success Burnley's play barely deserved.
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INTEREST VIDEO - WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY
25/01/2010 FOR January 27th...A fascinating look at video and pohotographs of key events on this day in years gone by...
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ROYALS HOPE ZURAB CAN GIVE THEM THE KHIZ OF LIFE!
26/01/2010 READING'S latest signing, Zurab Khizanishvili, captain of the Georgia national team, goes straight into the squad for tonight's crucial trip to Sheffield United.
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SUSPECT ON ASHA MUNEER MURDER REMANDED IN CUSTODY AFTER FIRST COURT APPEARANCE
26/01/2010 THE 19-year-old man being held as a suspect in the case of murdered Reading student Asha Muneer has been charged with murder by Thames Valley Police. Gulamyr Akhter, from the Kings Road area of Reading - appeared at East Berkshire Magistrates’ Court at Slough on Saturday and was remanded in custody.
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GOAL HERO SHANE HELPS ROYALS GET BACK IN THE GROOVE IN "MUST-WIN" GAME
31/01/2010 BRIAN McDERMOTT stepped out for the first time in the official role of Royals manager at the Mad Stad on Saturday, and his team marked the occasion with a 1-0 defeat of Barnsley.
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ASHA MUNEER MURDER - TEENAGER REMANDED IN CUSTODY AFTER FIRST COURT APPEARANCE
01/02/2010 THE 19-year-old man accused of murdering Reading student Asha Muneer two weeks ago appeared at Reading Crown Court this morning for a preliminary hearing.
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POLICE APPEAL FOR WITNESSES AS ARMED BANDITS STAGE A DAWN RAID AT McDONALD'S
01/02/2010 POLICE are hunting two gun bandits who terrified a female manager at the McDonald's in Oxford Road, Reading in a pre-dawn raid yesterday morning, escaping with hundreds of pounds in takings.
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MORE WITNESSES ARE BEING SOUGHT OVER TILEHURST ROAD DEATH CRASH
02/02/2010 POLICE are still seeking witnesses to the fatal crash late last Wednesday evening at the junction of Tilehurst Road and Western Elms Avenue in Reading.
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MILLS COULD BE A BOON FOR THE ROYALS AS HE MAKES ROVERS RETURN
05/02/2010 THE Royals are looking for a big display from their defence - particularly centre-back Matt Mills - when they go to Doncaster tomorrow (Sky TV 5.15pm).
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APPEAL FOR WITNESSES AFTER FRIDAY'S DEATH CRASH ON A329(M)
06/02/2010 POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a fatal collision on the A329M during the tea-time rush-hour on Friday.
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LEROY'S MOTHER IS FACING DEPORTATION FROM BRITAIN
08/02/2010 THE mother of former Royals star Leroy Lita is reported to be facing deportation from Britain.
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POLICE CONCERNED THAT HOUSEHOLDERS ARE MAKING IT TOO EASY FOR THE BURGLARS
09/02/2010 A WARNING to householders has gone out from Thames Valley Police after three of five burglaries in Reading last night were carried out through insecure doors. Police are urging people to ensure their homes are secure by locking their doors at night.
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APPEAL FOR WITNESSES AFTER ATTACK ON CAVERSHAM SCHOOLGIRL
12/02/2010 POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an 11-year-old girl was assaulted as she walked to school in Caversham around 8.20am on Wednesday 10 February.
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WITNESSES SOUGHT FOR FORBURY ROAD PEDESTRIAN DEATH COLLISION
13/02/2010 POLICE are seeking witnesses to the mysterious accident in Forbury Road, Reading on February 4th, when pedestrian Christine Lyon was hit by a black Suzuki Jimny 4x4 and died at the scene.
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ROYAL BERKS HOSPITAL CUTS BACK VISITING AFTER OUTBREAK OF NOROVIRUS
13/02/2010 VISITING continues to be drastically restricted at the Royal Berkshire Hospital because of an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug Norovirus. Only the parents of children on paediatric wards and close relatives of those terminally ill will be allowed to visit in the next few days.
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IT'S PALACE OR VILLA FOR ROYALS IF THEY WIN WEST BROM REPLAY
14/02/2010 READING'S reward if they can win their 5th round FA Cup replay away to West Bromwich Albion next week is a home quarter-final tie against the winners of the Aston Villa v Crystal Palace replay.
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READING ABBEY GATEWAY IS CLOSED FOR SAFETY CHECKS
15/02/2010 READING Borough Council has closed the historic Abbey Gateway in the centre of town after fragments of decorative stone started falling from the structure.
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READING'S RICKY WILL MAKE CEMETERY JUNCTION FAMOUS!
16/02/2010 IT'S not the glitziest, most glamourous corner of Reading, but Cemetery Junction is a local landmark - and now it's about to get a massive injection of worldwide publicity.
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CAN ANYONE IDENTIFY MAN WANTED IN HENLEY BANK RAID?
20/02/2010 POLICE have issued CCTV pictures of the man they are seeking in connection with a brazen armed bank raid in Henley on Tuesday afternoon (16th).
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LUCK OF THE DRAW AS GRAFFITI DAUBER GETS A FIVE-YEAR ASBO
20/02/2010 A graffiti-obsessed student from Reading has been handed a five-year ASBO and been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service after a series offences in Reading, Bournemouth and Southampton.
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POLICE FORMING A NEW UNIT TO TACKLE VEHICLE CRIME
21/02/2010 DESPITE police claims that "there has been a substantial fall", Reading was recently listed as the ninth worst place in the UK for vehicle crime.
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YOUR CHANCE TO SHAPE READING STATION AREA'S FUTURE LOOK
21/02/2010 READING residents are being invited to get involved in helping to plan how the area around the Station will look in future years.
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COUNCIL'S NEW DRIVE TO OVERHAUL RESIDENTS' PARKING PERMITS
21/02/2010 READING'S problematic residents' parking arrangements are in line for a welcome spring clean-up.
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TOWN'S LONG LIST OF 'UNSOLVED' MURDERS AND RAPES
22/02/2010 THE 'Post' has uncovered figures showing 138 "rapes" and three murders unsolved in the Reading area in the past 13 years. Bizarrely, the rape figures consist of 65 by "strangers" and 73 by "non-strangers".
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HOW ITV SHOWED THE GOALS WHICH GAVE ROYALS A SLICE OF HISTORY
24/02/2010 READING reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1927 with a spectacular 3-2 extra time win away to Championship high-flyers West Bromwich Albion.
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OPERATION BREAKER IS BREAKING DOWN READING'S BURGLARY RATE
25/02/2010 POLICE are continuing to make inroads into what have been at times unacceptable levels of burglary in the Reading area.
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McANUFF BANNED AS FA INQUIRY INTO WEST BROM FIASCO BECOMES A FARCE
26/02/2010 THE Football Association set-up an inquiry into the ridiculous scenes at the end of Reading's 3-2 FA Cup triumph at West Bromwich Albion on Wednesday. And incredibly, it's shaping like a typical FA "rap the small team" scenario because Reading seem to be coming out of it worst.
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A GOAL FEAST AT THE MAD STAD - 5-0 AND HERE ARE THE PICTURES TO PROVE IT!
27/02/2010 READING had their best win in more than three years when Sheffield Wednesday came to town, the 5-0 drubbing was the Royals' best since the 6-0 slaughter of West Ham on New Year's Day 2007.
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IRISH PRESIDENT CHEERS EXILES TO VICTORY AT MAD STAD
28/02/2010 LONDON IRISH served up a green rugby feast for Ireland President Mary McAleese at the Madejski Stadium on Sunday, running out comfortable 29-14 winners against their traditional rivals Harlequins.
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HOW 'JIMMY BOUBOU' HAS SILENCED THE MAD STAD BOOBOO BOYS!
28/02/2010 FOOTBALL pundits are suddenly popping the question - "who is this new Reading goal machine called Jimmy Kebe?"
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THE HANDBAGGIES TURN OUT TO BE JUST A BUNCH OF SOUR, UNGRACIOUS LOSERS
01/03/2010 SOME of the gloss was taken off Reading's terrific win by the attitude of the West Brom players, management - and in particular their ludicrous stewards.
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GYLFI GOAL SENDS ROYALS INTO THE FA CUP QUARTER-FINALS!
01/03/2010 THE Royals are in the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 1927 after a sensational 3-2 extra time win in their 5th round replay at West Bromwich.
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SEX ATTACKER TARGETS A SCHOOLGIRL IN TILEHURST
02/03/2010 POLICE have appealed for witnesses after a 17-year-old Tilehurst student was attacked and sexually assaulted as she walked to school on Monday morning.
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GORDON'S BROWNED OFF OVER THE LACK OF BEAT POLICE
02/03/2010 PRIME Minister Gordon Brown whizzed into Reading to record a soundbite about crime, do a quick walk-around, and head off swiftly to more important matters.
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MARCUS HAS A DIG ON BEHALF OF THE RELEGATED ROYALS
03/03/2010 THE Royals' keeper in their glory years, Marcus Hahnemann, still feels bitter about the way the team was relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2007/08 season.
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FA CUP COUNTDOWN: S.J.M. SAYS HE'S READY FOR 'A TREMENDOUS DAY'
03/03/2010 THE biggest thing in town this week - Gordon Brown included - is the Royals' FA Cup quarter-final against Aston Villa at the Mad Stad on Sunday.
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FA CUP COUNTDOWN: ROYALS ONE STEP FROM WEMBLEY
03/03/2010 THE Royals' historic FA Cup journey has brought them to within one match of a trip to Wembley.
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FA CUP COUNTDOWN: KO'D MILLS FORGOT HE WAS ROYALTY!
03/03/2010 READING'S rejuvinated central defender Matt Mills has told how he suffered a serious memory loss after being concussed during the 3-2 replay win at West Bromwich last week.
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THE PM JUMPS AHEAD OF THE GAME OVER "READING CITY"
04/03/2010 GORDON BROWN'S scripwriter threw the Prime Minister a curve ball during his speech at Reading on Monday - and the PM duly swung and missed.
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TILEHURST SOLDIER RICHARD GREEN KILLED IN ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN
04/03/2010 THE Ministry of Defence has announced that Corporal Richard Green, from Tilehurst, has become the third soldier from the Reading area to be killed in action in Afghanistan.
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A SENIOR THAMES VALLEY POLICE OFFICER IS ARRESTED
04/03/2010 VARIOUS newspaper websites are reporting that Chief Superintendent Jim Trotman has been suspended from Thames Valley Police while detectives investigate a number of allegations against him including arson, insurance fraud and perverting the course of justice.
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POLICE WARN: IF YOU'RE NOT SURE THEN DON'T OPEN THE DOOR
05/03/2010 THAMES Valley Police are part of a joint operation with other forces around the country to increase awareness of bogus callers who call at houses and then carry out distraction burglaries.
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YET ANOTHER 'SUICIDE' ON AN UNMANNED RAILWAY CROSSING
06/03/2010 TRAIN services between Reading and Waterloo were disrupted on Saturday morning after a suspected suicide on one of the two unmanned rail crossings in Wokingham.
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POLICE RELEASE E-FIT OF TILEHURST SCHOOLGIRL'S ATTACKER
07/03/2010 THAMES Valley Police have released this E-fit image of a man it would like to speak to in connection with a sexual assault in Tilehurst last week.
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PRU FINALLY DROPS PLANS FOR 7,500 FLOOD PLAIN HOMES
08/03/2010 THE controversial plans to develop 7,500 new homes on the Kennet Meadows flood plain just to the south of Reading have finally been scrapped by Prupim, the property arm of Prudential.
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NO CHARGING BUT TOWN FACES BATTLE FOR ROAD FUNDS
10/03/2010 ROAD charging, which at one time looked a certainty in Reading - at least for drivers from out of town - is now likely to be off the agenda because the Government has changed the way it distributes grants to councils with special Transport projects.
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NOW RIGHT UP YOUR STREET - THE ALL-SEEING GOOGLE CAM
11/03/2010 PEOPLE right across Reading can now see what all the fuss has been about regarding the implementation by internet giants Google of their Street View facility.
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OWLS STUFFED, RAMS BATTERED... NOW ROBINS' WINGS ARE CLIPPED!
13/03/2010 READING continued their climb up the Coca-Cola Championship table on Saturday with a 2-0 defeat of Bristol City at the Madejski Stadium.
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ROYALS ON PARADE TO HELP HEROES OF THE ARMED FORCES
13/03/2010 RICHARD Green (below) the Tilehurst soldier who was killed in action last week in Afghanistan, was remembered, along with other dead and injured forces personnel, with an impeccable minute's silence before Reading's match against Bristol City today.
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READING DRIVERS WARNED: IF YOU'RE ON A CALL THEN YOU WILL FALL
14/03/2010 THAMES Valley Police have warned motorists that they will be having a special crackdown this week on drivers who use a mobile phone whilst at the wheel.
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READING SEX OFFENDER IS JAILED MORE THAN 30 YEARS LATER
14/03/2010 THAMES Valley Police are delighted with the success of one of their longest-running "historic" investigations. It has resulted in the jailing of a 64-year-old who indecently assaulted a number of girls in Reading, some more than 30 years ago.
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READING'S GOLDEN MOVIE COUPLE KATE AND SAM HAVE SPLIT
15/03/2010 THE two Reading-born Hollywood movie icons, actress Kate Winslet and her husband, director Sam Mendes, have parted after almost seven years of marriage.
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'THE SIG' AIMS TO KEEP ROYALS DRIVING ALONG IN TOP GEAR!
15/03/2010 WHEN this season started only the most loyal of Royals fans would have known the name of an 19-year-old Academy kid called Gylfi Sigurdsson.
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STEVE TAKES 500-MILE ROAD A LONG WAY DOWN FOR CHARITY
15/03/2010 READING adventurer Steve Blethyn is about to set out on a 500-mile "Long Way Down" trek from Glasgow to Reading, hoping to raise as much as possible for two deserving causes - the Rays of Sunshine children’s charity and the "responders team" attached to the South Central Ambulance Service.
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THE SIG'S STILL IN TOP GEAR AS RAMPANT ROYALS WIN AGAIN
16/03/2010 GYLFI Sigurdsson, aka The Sig, did it again last night, winning and scoring the penalty which beat Neil Warnock's niggly QPR at the Mad Stad.
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BOSS WON'T POINT FINGER AT MILLS AFTER FANS FALL-OUT
17/03/2010 READING manager Brian McDermott has explained away the apparently angry one-finger gesture made by Matt Mills towards the "noisy" East Stand section of the Royals' crowd during last night's game.
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CHARITY WILL BE THE BIGGEST WINNER IN THE READING LONG RUN!
18/03/2010 IT'S the Reading Half-Marathon this Sunday, the cue for up to 18,000 runners of wildly varying abilities, to hit the streets of town.
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BATTLING ROYALS HIT BACK TO SAVE A HANDY POINT AT MIDDLESBROUGH
20/03/2010 THE Royals survived a tough examination of their credentials as "England's form team" with a battling 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough today.
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EVERYONE WAS A WINNER AT THE 28th READING HALF-MARATHON...
21/03/2010 SUNDAY'S 28th Reading Half-Marathon could go down as the most successful yet.
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GUIDE EXCLUSIVE PICTURE ALBUM - READING HALF-MARATHON 2010 SECTION 2
21/03/2010 AMONGST the near-13,000 runners in the Reading Half-Marathon were many who not openly completed the course, but did so in fancy dress or in other outstandingly difficult ways….like the chap who each year pushes a wheelchair passenger, Kingsley the Royals' Mascot, the two-person camel, and of course, the 15 soldiers from Hermitage who all completed the course - with a Land Rover in tow.
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GUIDE EXCLUSIVE PICTURE GALLERY - READING HALF-MARATHON 2010...SECTION 1
21/03/2010 THE 28th Reading Half-Marathon brought a huge spectrum of people across its near-13,000 participants, from the small groups of elite and wheelchair athletes, to the vast majority who were fun runners. Here, in Section 1 of our exclusive pictures, we try to capture some of the characters, some of the fun - and there are a few painful expressions as well!
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MILLS PUTS HIS SHIRT ON REGAINING THE FAITH OF THE FANS
22/03/2010 READING defender Matt Mills appears to have made his peace with the fans after his single-finger gesture tantrum during last week's game against QPR.
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SKIPPER IVAR'S SIDELINED AS THE ROYALS GO FOX-HUNTING TONIGHT
24/03/2010 READING are at Leicester tonight in another crucial Coca-Cola Championship game - and they are without skipper Ivar Ingimarsson (below).
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READING GUIDE TRIBUTE GALLERY - THE FUNERAL OF CORPORAL RICHARD GREEN
24/03/2010 READING paid it's final respects to Corporal Richard Green today, the 23-year-old Rifelman from Tilehurst who was killed by a Taliban bullet in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 2nd. The service was held at Reading Minster in St Mary's Butts, conducted by the Bishop of Reading, Stephen Cottrell.
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IT'S SIG-SATIONAL AS GYLFI WINS ANOTHER ONE FOR ROYALS
25/03/2010 THIS time last year few Reading fans had even heard of a 20-year-old kid from the Academy called Gylfi Sigurdsson.
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CROWD WILL SING WITH BARRY AS THE MAD STAD TURNS GREEN
26/03/2010 IRISH boxing legend Barry McGuigan will add some punch to the London Irish St Patrick's Day celebration match at the Mad Stad on Sunday as Reading turns a bright shade of green.
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POLICE START HUNTING FOR A MISSING SONNING HOUSEBOATER
27/03/2010 THAMES Valley Police have launched a search for a 60-year-old man from Sonning who has not been seen at home or work in the last 10 days.
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LATE GOAL ROBS UNLUCKY ROYALS OF ANOTHER HOME GLORY DAY
27/03/2010 READING'S run of six straight home wins came to an untimely end when they were held 1-1 by West Bromwich Albion at the Mad Stad.
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SUCH A GREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH - ON THE FIELD AND OFF IT!
28/03/2010 THE craic was sensational - and so was the Rugby as London Irish produced their best display of the season for a bumper 21,535 crowd at the annual St Patrick's Day celebration game at the Mad Stad.
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STEVE'S 500-MILE CHARITY TREK ENDS WITH UNLUCKY TWIST
28/03/2010 READING adventurer Steve Blethyn, who set out on Tuesday on a 500-mile "Long Way Down" trek from Glasgow to Reading has had to abandon his plans after reaching around the halfway mark at Leeds.
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GUIDE EXCLUSIVE PICTURE GALLERY: THE LONDON IRISH ST PATRICK'S DAY FESTIVAL
28/03/2010 THERE'S no occasion in club Rugby Union like the annual London Irish St Patrick's Day festival. It's a ritual for more than 20,000 Exiles fans from all over the country, and the 2010 version was one of the best with the usual selection of colourful outfits, vast consumption of Guinness and an abundance of good humour - in all, a terrific craic!
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CUP=WINNING SAINTS 'OVERCOME WITH EMULSION' BY ROYAL COMMAND!
29/03/2010 EVEN if Reading don't make it to Wembley this season for the play-offs, at least the Royals can bask in a little reflected glory from Southampton's 4-1 Johnstone's Paint Trophy defeat of Carlisle under the big arch on Sunday.
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DON'T LET THIEVES 'SKIM' MONEY FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT!
29/03/2010 THE crooks' favourite scam for raiding your bank account from a cash machine has re-surfaced in the Reading area, and police have warned people to be on their guard.
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READING WEST CANDIDATE TRIO PLAN 'KEEP IT CLEAN' ELECTION
30/03/2010 THREE candidates in the Reading West constituency have signed up to a "keep it clean" pledge for the forthcoming election.
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MORE SWOOPS ON DRUGS SUSPECTS BY THAMES VALLEY FALCON SQUAD
01/04/2010 THAMES Valley Police have arrested four people on suspicion of supplying class A drugs, after the execution of a warrant in Reading on Wednesday.
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POLICE MAKE ARRESTS AFTER TWO STABBINGS IN OXFORD ROAD
01/04/2010 POLICE have moved quickly to allay public safety fears after two stabbings in four days in the Oxford Road area of Reading.
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ROYALS PAIR IN LINE FOR MARCH COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS
01/04/2010 READING boss Brian McDermott and star striker Gylfi Sigurdsson have been nominated for the Coca-Cola Championship Manager and Player of the month for March.
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ROYALS TO APPEAL RED CARD AFTER BATTLING 10 GO UNDER AT IPSWICH
03/04/2010 THERE'S an old theory that the Manager of the Month award is jinxed - and Reading's Brian McDermott can confirm that.
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GYLFI AND MAC AWARD WIN DOUBLE AS ROYALS HEAD FOR IPSWICH
03/04/2010 READING'S Gylfi SIgurdsson is the Coca-Cola Championship Player of the Month for March, and manager Brian McDermott has won an overdue Manager of the Month award.
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MILLS CAN PLAY AGAINST COVENTRY, BUT LITTLE HOPE OF APPEAL SUCCESS
04/04/2010 READING have taken a gamble and appealed against the somewhat ridiculous red card given to Matt Mills during Saturday's game at Ipswich.
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BIG MAC CHEWS ON CHANGES AS ROYALS FACE THE SKY BLUES
04/04/2010 FTER their unlucky hiccup at Ipswich on Saturday, the Royals are straight back into action this afternoon against one of the many unpredictable teams in the Coca-Cola Championship, Coventry City.
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TURKISH DELIGHT FOR JEM AS ROYALS TURN ON SENSATIONAL STYLE
05/04/2010 READING'S young Turkish midfielder Jem Karacan is among the many who rated the first half of the Royals' 3-0 defeat of Coventry on Monday as a truly sensational 45 minutes of football.
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ROYALS SWAMP NIGGLY SKY BLUES TO KEEP PLAY-OFF DREAM ALIVE
05/04/2010 READING'S unlikely dream of gatecrashing the play-offs remains alive after they swept aside an abysmal Coventry side 3-0 at the Mad Stad.
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COUNCILLORS VOTE THEMSELVES IN TO BECOME WEBCAST TV STARS
05/04/2010 MOST of the MPs at Westminster have become TV-savvy - knowing how and when to turn on a smarmy smile or the perfect look of concern when the camera pans in on them. Now the 46 councillors in Reading will have to develop some of those skills themselves, because in a rare show of cross-party unity, they voted unanimously last week to allow council meetings to be webcast live directly to any computer-user who wants to watch.
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LITTLE BIG MAN JAY IS VOTED ROYALS' PLAYER OF THE MONTH
06/04/2010 JAY TABB was one of Reading's "forgotten men" earlier in the season, but since being recalled by Brian McDermott, the dynamic little midfielder has shown just what he is capable of.
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BEER TODAY GONE TOMORROW - IT'S THE END OF THE READING 3Bs
06/04/2010 THE Bulbs went to Devon, the Biscuits went to Liverpool, and now the time has been called on the Beer, cutting the last strand of Reading's famous Three Bs.
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TORIES AND GREENS PLEDGE PLEDGE TO KEEP IT CLEAN DURING THE ELECTION
07/04/2010 THE Conservative and Green parliamentary candidates in both the Reading East and West constituencies, have signed up to an eight-point "keep it clean" campaigning pledge in the run-up to the May 6 election.
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POLICE WARNING ABOUT BOGUS READING MUSIC FESTIVAL TICKETS
08/04/2010 THAMES Valley Police have issued a new warning to Reading Festivalgoers not to get stung by fake ticket scams after a Crowthorne man pleaded guilty to 27 counts of fraud relating to the sale of music tickets.
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JEM AND ZURAB ARE PASSED FIT - NOW HOW TO FIT IN GYLFI?
08/04/2010 READING'S eager-beaver midfielder Jem Karacan has been passed fit for tomorrow's crunch trip to Cardiff - and so has key defender Zurab Khizanishvili, who looked for one awful moment as though he had collected a serious injury in the Coventry game on Monday.
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ROYALS' NEW-LOOK DEFENCE WILL BE UNDER PRESSURE AT CARDIFF
08/04/2010 READING'S season is, remarkably, still alive with six games to go - and at the right end of the table, not the wrong one.
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SENIOR THAMES VALLEY POLICE OFFICER FACING CHARGES
09/04/2010 CHIEF Superintendent Jim Trotman (pictured) has been charged with perverting the course of justice and two counts of insurance fraud.
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BODY OF MISSING SONNING HOUSEBOATER FOUND IN RIVER AT MARSH LOCK
09/04/2010 THAMES Valley Police say the body found in the River Thames at Marsh Lock near Henley on Tuesday has been confirmed as that of 60-year-old Nick Day.
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BOLD EFFORT BUT ROYALS HAVE TO SETTLE FOR A POINT AT CARDIFF
10/04/2010 TRUE to his attacking insticts Brian McDermott set his team up to go for a win at Cardiff - and despite high calibre opposition they came within the thickness of a crossbar of taking three points.
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BEAT NEWCASTLE AND THE DREAM STAYS ALIVE - LOSE AND IT'S ALL OVER
11/04/2010 TO the enormous credit of the squad, and manager, tomorrow night's match against Newcastle at the Mad Stad still has significance for the Royals.
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MATTY IS A HERO NOW TO THE FANS HE FELL OUT WITH
11/04/2010 FOUR weeks ago Reading defender and recent team captain Matt Mills had an altercation with fans who gave him the bird after some of his passes went astray during the only dreary match of recent times, against QPR.
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NEVER MIND THE PLAY-OFFS - THE BOSS IS PLEASED JUST TO BE SAFE
11/04/2010 ROYALS boss Brian McDermott believes he was - and possibly still is - the only person in town not talking about the play-offs.
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CAMERON, HARMAN, STRAW - IT'S TIGHT IN THE MARGINALS!
12/04/2010 THE big political guns are starting to rumble around Reading as the election date comes rushing over the horizon.
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PLAY-OFF DREAM ENDS AS ROYALS ARE MUGGED BY GRIM TOON RAIDERS
13/04/2010 CALL it a mugging, a smash and grab job or whatever, but the upshot is that Reading's distant play-off dream disappeared over the horizon to the realms of nightmare when they were beaten 2-1 by champions-elect Newcastle at the Mad Stad.
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READING NEEDS YOUR VOTE IN THE UK TOWN POPULARITY POLL!
14/04/2010 THE official tourist website Information Britain has an ongoing poll to identify the cities, towns and villages people like best - and, so far, the Thames Valley does not come out covered in glory.
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STAVROS FLATLEY'S RETURN WILL HAVE IRISH EYES SMILING!
15/04/2010 T'S another big weekend of top sporting action at the Madejski Stadium, with Reading's Coca-Cola Championship match against Peterborough today followed 24 hours later by London Irish in Guinness Premiership rugby action against Leeds Carnegie.
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ALL ABOARD FOR A MOVIE RIDE TO CEMETERY JUNCTION!
16/04/2010 IT'S not the glitziest, most glamourous corner of Reading, but Cemetery Junction is a local landmark - and now it's about to get a massive injection of worldwide publicity.
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ROYALS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP THIS SUCCESS SQUAD TOGETHER
16/04/2010 THERE'S still the faintest glimmer of hope for a place in the play-offs if Reading can win their four remaining games - and others lose theirs - but more realistically, thoughts are already turning to next season.
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SIX OF THE BEST AS SUPER ROYALS BLAST BACK TO TOP FORM
17/04/2010 AFTER the disappointments of the past week when, with a modicum of luck, they might have taken more than one point from their games against Cardiff and Newcastle, Reading slipped smoothly back into the groove with a 6-0 crushing of Peterborough.
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LONDON IRISH LEFT FLATLEY-FOOTED AS LEEDS SPOIL A SUNNY DAY
18/04/2010 THE sun was out, the sky was blue, Stavros Flatley wowed the fans, and there wasn't a cloud to spoil the view for ambitious London Irish as they lined up against struggling Leeds Carnegie at the Mad Stad.
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HUNT FOR 'SLOB THE BUILDER' AFTER ASSAULT IN SHOP
19/04/2010 POLICE are hunting for a thug wearing "builder-style" boots, jeans and a hood after an assault in a central Reading shop during Friday's rush-hour.
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PSV EINDHOVEN READY TO OFFER THE SIG A CHANCE TO GO DUTCH
19/04/2010 THE erupting volcano is not the only Icelandic topic of the week - at least not in Eindhoven, Holland, where the mighty Philips sports club, PSV, are said to be preparing an offer they believe the Royals will not be able to refuse, for Gylfi Sigurdsson.
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STRANDED WILLINK PUPILS SET UP A NEW SCHOOL - IN BEIJING!
19/04/2010 MANY local people have been affected by the no-fly restrictions imposed on most of the UK after the volcanic eruptions in Iceland.
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A POLICE CRACKDOWN ON MOTORING OFFENCES NETS 90
20/04/2010 THAMES Valley Police, like several other forces, are beginning to ease back from the controversial reliance on speed cameras and concentrate on more effective means of improving road safety - notably putting real traffic officers in a position to apprehend erring motorists.
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…AND EVEN GETTING HOME FROM LONDON IS A PROBLEM
20/04/2010 WHILE people abroad wondered how they would get home, a similar thing was happening locally last night as thousands of rail commuters from the Thames Valley were left stranded at Paddington.
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ROYALS PLAY-OFF CHARGE ENDED BY LATE SCUNTHORPE FIGHTBACK
20/04/2010 READING, who needed a win to maintain even the slightest flicker of hope of reaching the play-offs, did all the hard work at Glanford Park - but threw it all away in the last nine minutes.
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READING'S STRANDED YOUTH TEAM TREATED LIKE ROYALTY!
21/04/2010 THE Royals youth team players who flew to the United States for an Easter tournament are likely to be stuck there until May 3rd.
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POLICE HANDING OUT FREE DNA PROPERTY MARKERS TO CAVERSHAM RESIDENTS
22/04/2010 THE use of DNA to help identify criminals is widespread - now police are stepping up the use of special kits to help identify stolen property.
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THERE'S PANTO NEWS ALREADY FROM HEXAGON - OH YES THERE IS!
22/04/2010 SPRING has only just sprung - but at Reading's Hexagon there's already a hint of winter in the air.
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COPPELL FLIES WEST TO JOIN UP WITH THE ROBINS - AND IVAR ALSO?
23/04/2010 AS predicted by Reading-Guide.co.uk last weekend, Steve Coppell, the most successful Reading manager in the club's 139-year history, has been confirmed as the new manager of Bristol City.
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HELLO-HELLO, TWEET-TWEET, POKE-POKE - IT'S THE POLICE CALLING!
24/04/2010 CAVERSHAM, Newbury and Maidenhead are three police areas pioneering a new initiative aimed at more intimate and immediate contact with local communities.
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BIG MAC'S DISMAYED AS ROYALS LOOK ALL AT SEA ON BEACH BALL DAY
25/04/2010 TRUE to tradition on their last away day of the season, Reading fans turned up in force with a variety of beach balls and other inflatables to help create a carnival atmosphere at Watford on Saturday.
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IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE SIG'S IN OVERDRIVE FOR PLAYER OF YEAR
25/04/2010 VOTING has now closed in the Reading FC Player of the Year competition, and the hot money is on a two-way battle between Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jimmy Kebe - with The Sig as favourite.
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ARRESTS AFTER SUNDAY ASSAULT ON TILEHURST TEENAGER
26/04/2010 AN incident on Sunday evening in Great Knollys Street has resulted in the arrest of four people, with one more being sought.
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ROYALS PUT AN END TO SPECULATION ABOUT 'SAINT MICHAIL'
27/04/2010 HE Royals have reacted swiftly to protect their interest in 20-year-old winger Michail Antonio, who has rapidly emerged as a key member of the successful Southampton side whilst on loan there this season.
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THE BBC'S HEXAGON ELECTION DEBATE WAS TOO BRIEF
27/04/2010 WITH the election now just a week away, a Reading audience of 100 voters had the chance on Tuesday to question five leading political figures in a BBC South debate at the Hexagon.
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MAC'S MEN WANT SAY A BIG THANKYOU TO LOYAL ROYALS
28/04/2010 WIN, lose or draw, manager Brian McDermott and his players will make a 'Lap of Appreciation' for the fans after the final game of the season, against Preston at the Mad Stad on Sunday.
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MAN ACCUSED OF ASHA MUNEER MURDER IS REMANDED IN CUSTODY
28/04/2010 THE 19-year-old charged with the murder, in January, of Highdown schoolgirl Asha Muneer has appeared at Reading Crown Court and was remanded in custody.
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POLICE SEEKING WITNESSES TO THIS MORNING'S DEATH CRASH ON M4
30/04/2010 POLICE are seeking witnesses after a fatal collision on the M4 east-bound on Friday.
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THE GONG'S GONE TO ICELAND - THE SIG WINS PLAYER OF YEAR
01/05/2010 GYLFI Sigurdsson crowned a near-perfect first season of senior football with his 20th goal - and the official Reading Player of the Year award to take home to Iceland for his summer break.
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IT'S ANOTHER HOME SUPER-SHOW TO END WITH - AND MORE GREAT GOALS
02/05/2010 BOSS Brian McDermott promised the Royals would sign off in style - and they did just that at the Mad Stad this afternoon, whacking Preston 4-1 (one goal adrift of Reading Guide's 5-1 Twitter prediction!)
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BIG MAC WAS SO PROUD OF THE WAY HIS TEAM PERFORMED
03/05/2010 READING boss Brian McDermott was rightly proud of the way his team responded to the 3-0 fiasco at Watford by winning Sunday's final game 4-1 against Preston.
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NOW COMES THE HARD PART - KEEPING THIS SUPER TEAM INTACT!
03/05/2010 THE Royals have done magnificently well to finish a more-than-respectable 9th in the final Championship table and the fans acknowledged that in Sunday's "Lap of Appreciation".
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HERE'S HOW THEY LINE UP AROUND THE AREA
05/05/2010 READING West was one of the few Labour seats in the south outside London at the 2005 election, Martin Salter's old seat being hemmed in on all sides by Conservatives.
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READING WEST - NO-SALTER LABOUR CAN'T TAKE IT AS RED
05/05/2010 LABOUR have a multiple whammy to give them difficulty in READING WEST despite a cushion of 4,682 votes last time out.
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READING EAST - DEFENDING CHAMP WILSON FACES A FIGHT
05/05/2010 JUST a few hours to go now before the votes are counted in possibly the most unpredictable British election of all time.
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ROYALS OFFER IVAR AND BRYN ONE-YEAR DEALS
06/05/2010 THE Royals have played their first cards in what is expected to be a busy summer of inwards and outwards activity as they prepare to build a squad to challenge for what, next season, will be the npower Championship.
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NO HAPPY ENDING FOR IRISH AS HERO CATT SAYS FAREWELL
07/05/2010 MIKE CATT brought down the curtain on his illustrious Rugby Union career when he made a cameo appearance in the closing stages for London Irish against Northampton at the Madejski Stadium.
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MELTDOWN FOR PARLIAMENT BUT LABOUR WILL STILL RUN READING
07/05/2010 AFTER a lengthy flirtation with Labour, the traditionally Conservative Westminster constituencies of Reading East and West are now back in their old colours. But the Borough Council remains effectively under the control of a Labour-led unofficial coalition with the LibDems.
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READING WEST - IT'S NO MORE SALTER AND NO MORE LABOUR SEAT
07/05/2010 LABOUR were always on a struggle to keep READING WEST despite a majority cushion of 4,682 votes last time out for Martin Salter.
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READING EAST - DEFENDING CHAMP WILSON WINS WITH EASE
07/05/2010 AS Britain headed to its hung parliament, voters in READING EAST were kept waiting for their result until around 6am.
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IT STAYS BLUE AS USUAL ALL AROUND THE AREA
07/05/2010 READING West was one of the few Labour seats in the south outside London at the 2005 election, Martin Salter's old seat being hemmed in on all sides by Conservatives.
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ONE MORE SEAT FOR LIBDEMS AND TOWN HAS ITS FIRST GREEN
08/05/2010 THE general election results in Reading were not reflected in the partial election for town council seats.
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READING WEST - NO SALTER AND NOW THERE"S NO MORE LABOUR SEAT
08/05/2010 LABOUR were always on a struggle to keep READING WEST despite a majority cushion of 4,682 votes last time out for Martin Salter.
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READING EAST - DEFENDING CHAMP WILSON WINS WITH EASE
08/05/2010 AS Britain headed to its hung parliament, voters in READING EAST were kept waiting for their result until around 6am.
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…AND IT STAYS BLUE AS USUAL ALL AROUND THE AREA
08/05/2010 READING West was one of the few Labour seats in the south outside London at the 2005 election, Martin Salter's old seat being hemmed in on all sides by Conservatives.
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MELTDOWN FOR PARLIAMENT BUT LABOUR STILL AHEAD IN READING
09/05/2010 WHILE Westminster wobbles painfully towards getting to grips with its 'hung' status, the dust has at least settled in Reading where both parliamentary seats are back in Conservative hands, and where, conversely, Labour's tenuous grip on power in the Borough is slightly less tenuous than it was.
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ROYALS PLACE THE FIRST PIECE OF THEIR 2010/11 TEAM JIGSAW
11/05/2010 READING have made their first signing of the summer, moving swiftly to cover the likely loss of loaned left-back Ryan Bertrand by signing Scunthorpe defender Marcus Williams (pictured).
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ON YER BIKE! POLICE CYCLISTS RIDE TO HELP OUR HEROES
11/05/2010 A TEAM of Thames Valley Police officers is preparing for a challenging bike ride to Paris to raise money fort the national Armed Forces charity Help for Heroes.
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ROYALS MUST SHARPEN THINGS UP AGAINST THE TOP TEAMS
12/05/2010 WHEN Brian McDermott sits down to refine next season's tactical plans for his Royals, he may have to find a gameplan for getting past the leading teams.
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ALL THE READING AREA 2010 ELECTION RESULTS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS
12/05/2010 THE entire Thames Valley area is now in Conservative hands after the 2010 general election, the one remaining Labour seat, Reading West changing hands on the back of a dramatic swing. However, on Reading Borough Council Labour bucked the trend and actually improved its situation from a one-seat advantage over the Conservatives to two seats.
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SONNING-BASED MP THERESA IS NAMED AS THE NEW HOME SECRETARY
12/05/2010 MAIDENHEAD MP Theresa May, who lives at Sonning, has been handed the prestige post of Home Secretary in the coalition Con-Lib government.
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DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER ROOFLESS BUS HALTS TRAINS!
12/05/2010 FOR the second time in less than a month, evening rush hour trains between Paddington and Reading were disrupted by a bizarre road accident tonight.
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PLANS ON SHOW FOR SUPER NEW STATION COMPLEX
13/05/2010 DETAILED plans for the five-year, £848million modernisation of Reading Station and the surrounding area will go on public display at the end of next week.
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ROYALS SKIPPER INGIMARSSON SIGNS NEW ONE-YEAR DEAL
14/05/2010 THE Royals team for 2010/11 is quickly taking shape - much quicker, in fact, than last season's came together.
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SAINTS, WOLVES AND SLOVENIA IN THE ROYALS' PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE
15/05/2010 READING'S pre-season plans are now virtually finalised, with confirmation that their overseas summer training camp will switch from Sweden to Slovenia this year.
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THERE'S ALSO SCOPE FOR LIB-CON ALLIANCE IN READING
15/05/2010 WHILE the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats snuggle down together in Westminster, there could be moves afoot to discuss a similar arrangement on Reading Borough Council.
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DILL'S EX-ROYAL SHOTS SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT
15/05/2010 THE Royals may have missed out on the playoffs, but there is still plenty of local interest - and some Royal interest - in the various promotion races still going on.
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RECESSION-HIT SIR JOHN MADEJSKI 'IS IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH BANKS'
16/05/2010 TODAY'S Times newspaper reports that Reading FC owner, and leading local entrepreneur Sir John Madejski is experiencing financial strain in some of his many business ventures as a result of the recession and a nosedive in commercial property values.
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ROYALS NOW HAVE A STRONG PRESENCE IN TWO USA CITIES
16/05/2010 THE Royals are spreading their wings in the USA with strong affiliations to two clubs.
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POLICE SEEK WITNESSES AFTER VIOLENT HOUSE RAID IN CAVERSHAM
17/05/2010 POLICE are appealing for anyone with information about a violent robbery which took place at a house in Ian Mikardo Way at Lower Caversham on Friday to come forward.
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GRIFFIN'S AVAILABILITY COULD INDICATE ROYALS' AMBITIONS
18/05/2010 ROYALS fans could quickly find out the extent of the club's determination to have a serious crack at promotion next season with news that Stoke have told full-back Andy Griffin he can leave the Britannia Stadium.
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DILL'S NOT-SO-HOT SHOTS JOIN PARKY IN THE DOLDRUMS
19/05/2010 IT'S not been a good week for the Royals loanees and ex-Royals involved in the various divisional play-offs.
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POLICE HUNT GINGER WHINGER AFTER RACIAL COMMENTS TO BUS DRIVER
19/05/2010 POLICE have appealed for witnesses after an incident involving racial abuse on a bus in South Reading on Tuesday.
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RIVERMEAD LEISURE CENTRE CLOSED AFTER FEARS OVER METHANE GAS
19/05/2010 THE Rivermead Leisure Centre, adjacent to the Reading Festival site in Richfield Avenue was evacuated and then closed at lunchtime yesterday (Weds) after worries over a smell of gas.
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TORIES AND LIBS CONFIRM THEY WILL FORM READING COALITION
19/05/2010 WHILE the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats snuggle down together in Westminster, it's been confirmed that a similar arrangement is imminent on Reading Borough Council.
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TEN LOCAL ROADS WHERE YOU NEED EXTRA WATCH ON YOUR CAR
20/05/2010 POLICE have named ten roads in the Wokingham Council area - which includes most of the east and south sides of Reading - where residents are most likely to encounter car crime, either theft or vandalism.
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MAN HELD AFTER CANNABIS FACTORY FIND IN EARLEY
20/05/2010 POLICE are examining the scene of a cannabis factory which they uncovered in Hilltop Road, Earley, this morning (Fri).
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VETERAN BRYN SIGNS FOR ANOTHER YEAR AT THE MAD STAD
20/05/2010 READING have taken another step towards securing their squad for next season by agreeing a new one-year deal with the versatile Brynjar Gunnarsson.
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RIVERMEAD IS OPEN AGAIN AFTER METHANE GAS SCARE
21/05/2010 RIVERMEAD Leisure Centre has now reopened to the public after the "methane gas escape" drama which saw it closed earlier in the week. However the swimming pool at the centre, in Richfield Avenue, adjacent to the Reading Festival site, remains out of use while essential maintenance is carried out.
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BERKSHIRE CRICKETERS TAKE ON MIDDLESEX IN T20 CHALLENGE
21/05/2010 BERKSHIRE cricket fans have a treat in store next week when the county side plays Middlesex in a challenge Twenty20 match.
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COULD IT BE THE END OF THE ROAD FOR SPEED CAMERAS?
23/05/2010 READING'S long-suffering motorists may see a chink of light in the new government's spending-cut strategy. It's widely believed that among grants to be axed will be those that councils currently receive towards new speed cameras.
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POLICE WARNING ABOUT WARM WEATHER BURGLARS
24/05/2010 WITH the first blast of summer weather earlier this week, Reading police are urging residents not to make life easy for burglars during warm spells.
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ROYALS REJECT BRENDAN MULLS OVER BIG-TIME OFFERS
24/05/2010 THE Royals didn't want him - but it seems there are still plenty of opportunities in football for Brendan Rodgers.
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LABOUR REIGN IN READING IS OVER AFTER 24 YEARS
25/05/2010 IT'S the end of a political era for Reading Borough Council, after 24 years of Labour control ended on Tuesday evening.
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FILMS, FORUMS AND JUDE LAW AT THE HENLEY FESTIVAL
26/05/2010 LAST week it was Cannes, this week Henley - the inaugural Henley International Film Festival to be precise.
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ROYALS TARGET GRIFFIN IS STILL KEEPING HIS OPTIONS OPEN
27/05/2010 IT looks as though the pieces of the Royals' jigsaw for 2010/11 are falling into place.
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GYLFI 'AGREES' NEW DEAL AS VULTURES START CIRCLING
27/05/2010 READING FC announced yesterday that Gylfi Sigurdsson has "agreed to sign" his contract extension with the club, strengthening several days of unconfirmed media speculation which started from Iceland last weekend and continued right up to yesterday morning in the local press.
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GYLFI WINS HIS FIRST SENIOR CAP IN ICELAND VICTORY ROMP
30/05/2010 GYLFI Sigurdsson won his first senior cap for Iceland in a 4-0 defeat of Andorra in Reykjavik on Saturday evening.
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PRU FOUR ENSURE GOOD DONATIONS BY REACHING THE END OF THAMES CHARITY RIDE
31/05/2010 FOUR "Men from the Pru" have achieved their ambition of riding the entire 230-mile length of the River Thames to raise money for a Royal Berkshire Hospital charity.
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YOUNG ROYAL HAS LAST KICK OF THE ENGLISH SEASON AT WEMBLEY!
31/05/2010 THE Royals didn't make the play-offs - but the only Reading player still in domestic action at least had the last kick of the English season!
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WARNING TO VAN DRIVERS AFTER A SPATE OF TOOLS THEFTS
01/06/2010 POLICE are reminding tradesmen to secure their vans or remove their tools from their vans, following a spate of thefts in the Tilehurst area.
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GUL - FROM BUS DRIVER TO CABBIE TO... MAYOR OF READING
01/06/2010 READING has a new Mayor - and a man who is living proof that if you have an ambition, and try hard enough to succeed, then you can get there in the end.
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POLICE SEEK BROTHER OF MAN JAILED IN ROAD RAGE ATTACK
02/06/2010 READING man Shakil Ahmed has been jailed for 21 months for his part in a knife attack in Oxford Road last October - but police say they are now urgently his brother Shahzad, who they believe was the main offender.
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OTHER CLUBS ARE CLOSING IN ON READING TARGET GRIFFIN
02/06/2010 THE Royals' number one target, right-back Andy Griffin, is still playing the waiting game as other clubs start to show interest in signing him.
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IT'S THE END OF THE ROAD FOR READING TRAMLINES AFTER 106 YEARS
02/06/2010 WHEN electric trams took over from their horse-drawn predecessors in Reading in 1904, the town became criss-crossed with rails for the new public transport of the era.
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CAVERSHAM HIGHWAY ROBBERY PAIR HALTED BY BRAVE PASSERS-BY
02/06/2010 POLICE are hunting for two men whose audacious attempted highway robbery in Caversham on Tuesday morning was thwarted by intervention from the public.
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NEW DRINK-DRIVE CRACKDOWN IS FOCUSING ON YOUNGSTERS
04/06/2010 THAMES Valley Police have launched their annual month-long summer crack down on drink and drug driving.
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SHOREY SIGNS NEW DEAL WITH ROYALS - NOT NICKY, HIS DAD!
07/06/2010 STEVE Shorey, father of former Reading favourite Nicky, has been appointed Chief Scout for the Royals.
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POLICE SAY THAT SHOOTING VICTIM WAS A "DELIBERATE TARGET"
07/06/2010 A MAN was shot in East Reading late on Sunday evening in an incident which police say they do not believe was "random", but deliberately targeted.
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COLLEYS CLOSES - AND NOW THE NOW SARDAR PALACE FOLLOWS
08/06/2010 THE restaurant scene in Reading is ever-changing - and in the space of six weeks the town will have lost two of its iconic and best-loved eateries.
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HOW THE MIGHTY ROYALS OF 2005/06 HAVE FALLEN SO FAR, SO FAST
09/06/2010 ANY Royals fan can recite the magnificent team which took the club into the Premiership in 2005/06.
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TWO ARRESTS IN HUNT FOR GRANGE AVENUE GUNMAN
10/06/2010 POLICE have today made two arrests in connection with the shooting of a man on Sunday night on the corner of Grange Avenue and Wokingham Road in East Reading.
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MAREK CZECHS OUT AS ROYALS START TO BALANCE BUDGET
11/06/2010 THE Royals have made the first dent in their anticipated £4m-plus budget shortfall for next season by selling experienced Czech international Marek Matejovsky to Sparta Prague.
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WITNESS APPEAL AFTER 80-YEAR-OLD WOODLEY MAN DIES IN M4 CRASH
13/06/2010 POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a crash on the M4 on Saturday in which an 80-year-old man from Woodley was killed.
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EMMER GREEN AND CAVERSHAM HIT BY SPATE OF CYCLE THEFTS
13/06/2010 POLICE are concerned about a sudden spate of cycle thefts in Emmer Green and the northern parts of Caversham.
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READING HOCKEY CLUB ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NEW MEMBERS
14/06/2010 READING Hockey Club is one of Europe's most successful, both in the Men's and Women's sections - and to ensure it stays that way they are looking for between between 50 and 80 new players for next season.
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GREEK GIANTS ARE IMPRESSED BY YOUNG ROYALS KEEPER
15/06/2010 THE Royals have let it be known that there is a potential £4million-plus hole in their projected finances for next season, and although they have not said as much, the obvious implication is that they will have to sell players to solve that.
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ROYALS HOME TO SCUNNY IN FIRST GAME OF NEW SEASON
16/06/2010 THE Mad Stad went from haunted to fortress for the Royals last season – so there were smiles all round this morning with news that the first game of 2010/11 will be at home.
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NEW MP TEASES PREDECESSOR IN FIRST COMMONS SPEECH
17/06/2010 THE new MP for Reading West, Conservative Alok Sharma, has made his first speech in parliament - largely a formality of introduction to the House.
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READING FESTIVAL BOSS SUPPORTS NEW DRUGS INITIATIVE
21/06/2010 THE man behind the annual Reading Festival, Melvin Benn, has broadly welcomed a Government request for festival organisers to warn crowds about the dangers of "new drugs" giving what is known as a "legal high".
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TOWN CENTRE ROAD WORKS HERALD THE START OF READING STATION UPGRADE
21/06/2010 MAJOR road works connected to the expansion of Reading Station have begun in the town centre.
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CRIME FIGURES DIP AS READING-BASED SERIAL BURGLAR IS JAILED
21/06/2010 A ONE-MAN crime wave came to an end at Oxford Crown Court where a Reading man was jailed for three years and eight months for a string of burglaries and driving offences.
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NOEL OOH-LA-LAUGHS AFTER FRENCH FRY IN WORLD CUP
22/06/2010 THEY say that what goes around comes around - and that's why Royals striker Noel Hunt was in mischievous mood on Tuesday evening.
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ALOK LANDS RIGHT HOOK ON BEHALF OF READING BUSINESS
22/06/2010 THE new MP for Reading West, Alok Sharma, is quickly making his mark in the House of Commons.
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WOMAN PEDESTRIAN IS INJURED BY A HIT AND RUN CYCLIST
23/06/2010 THOSE who believe that some of Reading's cyclists take too many liberties have had their views reinforced by an incident in the town centre on Tuesday morning.
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HEATHROW THIRD RUNWAY CASH COULD GO TO RAIL LINK
24/06/2010 THE environmental lobbyists who helped the new government decide to scrap plans for a third Heathrow runway may soon consider they have done the Reading area a somewhat backhanded favour.
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READING MAN HURT IN FATAL CRASH - CAUSED BY SPIDER
26/06/2010 A MOTORIST whose car ploughed into a Reading cyclist injuring him and killing his brother-in-law, told a court she was momentarily distracted - by a spider.
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READING HEROIN DEALER IS SENT TO JAIL FOR TEN YEARS
27/06/2010 A DRUG dealer from Reading has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after admitting conspiracy to supply a class A drug.
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GUNMAN, AGED 22, FACES NEXT 22 IN JAIL FOR MURDER ATTEMPT
29/06/2010 THOMAS Stevens is aged 22 - and he will potentially spend the next 22 years of his life in jail after being sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on charges of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
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ALL ABOARD FOR FUN AND FROLICS AT HENLEY REGATTA
30/06/2010 WHETHER rowing floats your boat or just sampling the atmosphere of a big sporting and social occasion gets your current flowing, then the next few days at Henley will have plenty to offer.
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WOODLEY MURDERER WAS ALLEGED TO BE A WIFE-BEATER
04/07/2010 SORDID allegations have emerged about the background and personality of Steven Rees, the Woodley man who murdered his wife Ann-Marie and then committed suicide last Wednesday.
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TILEHURST MAN JAILED FOR DRINK AND DRIVING OFFENCES
05/07/2010 A TILEHURST man has been sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for drink-driving offences.
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PIPER'S ISLAND LOSES LICENCE AFTER TWO HUGE BRAWLS
06/07/2010 THE Reading bar and restaurant with the town's finest location has lost its licence - at the request of Thames Valley Police.
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YOU COULD BE TOP OF THE PROPS ON ITV- AND WIN £1,000!
06/07/2010 ITV are looking for passionate homeowners to take part in the new series of the fun property show MAY THE BEST HOUSE WIN - and they've asked Reading-Guide.co.uk to help them find contestants from the Thames Valley area - whether Reading, Henley, Newbury, Windsor, Wokingham or Maidenhead.
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GREEN LIGHT FOR REVIEW OF READING'S TRAFFIC SIGNALS
07/07/2010 READING'S new-look coalition council is prioritising a review of all the town's abundance of traffic light junctions in a bid "to help speed up journey times for motorists, public transport users and cyclists alike".
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THE SIG ROARS INTO No8 SHIRT AS ROYALS' NUMBERS COME UP
07/07/2010 GYLFI Sigurdsson, the sensation of Reading's re-emergence as a Championship force last season, will wear Number 8 in the new campaign.
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ROYALS EASE THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION BY SELLING KALIFA CISSE
09/07/2010 DEPENDING which newspaper/website you read, the Royals have banked between £250,000 and £500,000 by selling utility player Kalifa Cisse to former boss Steve Coppell at Bristol City.
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ROYALS WIN IN THE SUN AT FARNBOROUGH - BUT IT'S NO SIZZLER
10/07/2010 ON the basis that any win is a good result, the Royals had a "good result" in their first friendly of the season at Farnborough this afternoon.
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TWO FRENCH MEN DIE AS THEIR LIGHT PLANE CRASHES NEAR HENLEY
11/07/2010 POLICE say they have so far been unable to identify the two men killed when their light aircraft crashed at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley, on Saturday afternoon.
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TOO MANY HOMEOWNERS ARE MAKING IT EASY FOR THE BURGLAR
12/07/2010 POLICE say they are doing their best to bring down Reading's burglary figures - currently running at around 100 per month - but that home owners must play their part if the glut of this tedious crime is to be beaten.
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POLICE HOPING TO CLICK WITH THEIR READING FESTIVAL WEBSITE
12/07/2010 THAMES Valley Police occasionally leave themselves open to criticism for too much negative, "modern thinking" - but their latest bit of innovation shows them up to the minute in positive terms as well.
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ROYALS TOURISTS STAYING IN SLOVENIA'S OLDEST TOWN
12/07/2010 IN previous years the Royals have taken a pre-season tour to Sweden, but this year they have gone to Slovenia, where they are now based in the country's oldest town, Ptuj (pictured).
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SUPER SIMON SCORES TWICE AS ROYALS BEAT RED STAR
14/07/2010 SIMON CHURCH scored twice as the Royals earned a significant 3-1 victory over Red Star Belgrade in the first match of their Balkans tour at Ptuj, Slovenia this afternoon.
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PROLIFIC CALCOT BURGLAR IS GIVEN THREE-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE
15/07/2010 POLICE say they are delighted to have nailed a 31-year-old Calcot man they describe as "a prolific burglar."
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NOW BRENDAN HAS THE CHANCE TO GET THE SWANS FLYING AGAIN
15/07/2010 FORMER Reading manager Brendan Rodgers will be back at the Mad Stad in three months' time - as boss of Swansea City.
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COULD BE REAL HAIL AS WELL AS REAL ALE AT THE FESTIVAL!
15/07/2010 THE amber liquid will be flowing with a vengeance as usual at the Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival, which started today - but it's the clear liquid from the sky which could feature in the first couple of days, with heavy, maybe thundery showers forecast.
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ROYALS ROAR ON WITH ANOTHER EXCELLENT TOUR WIN
17/07/2010 READING'S pre-season Balkans tour continued to be a roaring success on Saturday when Brian McDermott's men beat the Croation top division side Inter Zapresic 2-0.
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POLICE SEEK 'CHELSEA FAN' AFTER SEXUAL ASSAULT ON TEENAGE GIRL
18/07/2010 POLICE are hunting for a someone who is obviously a Chelsea fan after a sexual assault near Palmer Park at around 8.10pm on Friday evening.
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ROYALS AIMING TO END TOUR WITH HAT-TRICK OF WINS
19/07/2010 READING'S so-far excellent pre-season training stint in Slovenia is almost over, but they will aim to come home on a high by winning their final game this evening.
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OUT OF TOWN FANS LOSE THEIR BUSES TO THE MAD STAD
19/07/2010 ROYALS fans who live out of town and travel in by "Football Special" buses face a more difficult - and more expensive - journey to the Mad Stad in the new season.
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IT'S LOOKING TOUGH AT THE TOP AS IRISH FACE EURO GIANTS
20/07/2010 LONDON Irish have drawn the toughest possible group for their 2010/11 Heineken Cup challenge - but the upside is that three of Europe's top club sides will be visiting the Madejski Stadium over the winter.
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SHOCK DEFEAT AS ROYALS' TOUR ENDS ON UNHAPPY NOTE
20/07/2010 THE Royals ended their Balkans tour on Tuesday with a match against the Slovenian top division side NK Celje - and Reading's 100 percent tour record ended with a surprise 1-0 defeat.
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THEY'RE ALL GOING DAFT IN RAFTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY
21/07/2010 IF you're around the Thameside Promenade in Caversham this evening (Thurs) you're likely to do a double-take if you glance towards the river.
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ROYALS PREPARE TO TRIM BACK THEIR TOP-HEAVY SQUAD
21/07/2010 WITH the new season little more than two weeks away, Reading are still exploring ways of easing the predicted £4m-plus hole in their cash flow for the new season.
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RAFTERS MAKE A SPLASH TO RAISE CHARITY CASH
22/07/2010 THE annual charity Raft Race run by Thames Water at Caversham Bridge featured 18 teams and raised more than £12,000 for the charity WaterAid. This is Reading Guide's exclusive gallery of pictures.
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HAL'S THE HERO AS ROYALS HIT BACK TO WIN AT WYCOMBE
24/07/2010 THE Royals squeezed out a 2-1 win at Wycombe in their latest friendly, thanks to a late goal by Hal Robson-Kanu as the countdown to the new season enters its final fortnight.
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IS FEDS BACK FOR KEEPS, OR WILL ROYALS CASH IN ON HIM?
24/07/2010 READING'S only World Cup representative, Aussie No2 goalkeeper Adam Federici, returns to the Royals' squad today in the friendly at Wycombe.
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CALL ME No1 - MARCUS RETURNS AS TOP OF THE STOPS!
25/07/2010 WHEN Marcus Hahnemann left the Royals a year ago there was great appreciation for what he helped the club achieve in his five years at the Mad Stad - but there was also a slight feeling amongst the fans that the popular Yank was just about at his sell-by date.
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HEALTH TECH BREAKTHROUGH BY A READING COMPANY
25/07/2010 A READING company has developed a unique solution to help health centres in Mozambique make immediate diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in newborn children.
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SPORTS NEWS LINKS: CLICK FOR THE LATEST FROM THE ROYALS, IRISH AND OTHER CLUBS
25/07/2010 READING is a fantastic hotbed of sport, spearheaded by the Royals, our Coca-Cola Championship football team, and London Irish from Rugby Union's Guinness Premiership, who both share the Madejski Stadium. Beyond that the town is extremely strong in Hockey, Cycling and Athletics - and there's still hope that the Racers Speedway team will return in 2011. So click through here for links to all the major clubs.
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ROYALS EXODUS GOES ON AS HENRY SIGNS FOR MILLWALL
26/07/2010 THE Royals continue to trim back their top-heavy squad - and the latest player to leave is the only Reading-born senior on the books, James Henry.
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PENDULUM SET TO SWING INTO TOWN WITH A D&B SPECIAL
27/07/2010 IF Drum & Bass music floats your boat, there's only one place to be on Wednesday evening, and that's Sakura in Gun Street, Reading.
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KEVIN STARTS FOR WOLVES, BUT MARCUS TAKES A SEAT
27/07/2010 THE Wolves are in town tonight for a pre-season friendly against Brian McDermott's Royals - but only two of the Wanderers' four ex-Reading stars will be in their line-up.
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THE READING FESTIVAL WHERE OUTSIDE GOES IN, INSIDE GOES OUT!
28/07/2010 THE super, month-long Outside Inside festival is about to hit Reading, promising musical treats - most of them free - plus what organisers call "a celebration of the arts. Music, Film, Art, Theatre and Dance."
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HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY TO THE 'NEW' CAVERSHAM COURT!
28/07/2010 IT'S almost a year since the magnificent £1.6million re-vamp of the historic Caversham Court Gardens - and to celebrate, there will be a re-run of the 2009 festivities.
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HAIL MICHAIL AS ROYALS KEEP WOLVES FROM THE DOOR
28/07/2010 THE Royals landed a hard-fought and well-deserved win in their only pre-season home game last night, seeing off Premier League Wolves 2-1.
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MANY OF THOSE CHAMPION ROYALS' LEGENDS ARE STILL ON THE MOVE
29/07/2010 THE transfer merry-go-round keeps spinning for ex-Royals players, particularly many from THE great squad of 2005 to 2008.
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BREAKING NEWS: CHECK OUT THESE LINKS TO THE TOP LOCAL SOURCES - AND READING USA
29/07/2010 THE Reading media scene has undergone major cosmetic surgery recently. With traditional newspapers under increasing pressure from "new media", both the Post and the Chronicle have made dramatic changes.
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Stephen Hunt (pictured) was watching at the Mad Stad on Tuesday as his new club, Wolves, went down 2-1 to Reading in a friendly - Marcus Hahnemann and Kevin Doyle, of course, are already at Molineux, along with nearly-man Greg Halford. 