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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Neranjana Elapatha |Allen Sinclair |Nathan Briant
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Allen Sinclair |Daisy Stephens
Allen Sinclair - BBC News and Daisy Stephens - BBC NewsSeptember 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM·2 min readA woman has told a court she still has nightmares decades later about the GP who she says assaulted her. Stephen Cox, 64, denies 16 counts of indecent assault against seven women while he practised as a GP in Bracknell, Berkshire, between 1988 and 1997.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Allen Sinclair
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Allen Sinclair
Allen Sinclair - BBC NewsSeptember 9, 2024 at 12:37 PM·2 min readA former Thames Valley Police call handler has been jailed after unlawfully accessing police computer systems and passing on privileged information to drug dealers. Catherine Arrol, 29, from Silver Close in Maidenhead, had pleaded guilty to four counts of misconduct in a public office, and, together with her brother John Arrol, three further counts of participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Allen Sinclair |Emily Ford
Allen Sinclair - BBC South Today and Emily Ford - BBC NewsJuly 16, 2024 at 12:08 AM·3 min readA man who harvests an invasive species of crayfish thinks eating them could prevent damage to rivers. Andrew Leech catches North American signal crayfish from the River Kennet in Thatcham. But a law change by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) means he can no longer sell live crayfish.
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May 10, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Allen Sinclair
A company has started a free, mobile scheme to collect and squash waste plastic - meaning it can be reused. Oxfordshire-based packaging company Polythene UK uses a van with an onboard compactor to collect, squash and squeeze the polythene. It is then used in rolls of "new" plastic wrapping the company sells. Polythene is an essential part of packaging - but is often bulky waste which can only be thrown in the rubbish. Similar collection and recycling schemes already work with paper.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
bbc.com | Patrick O'Hagan |Allen Sinclair |Curtis Lancaster |Curtis LancasterBbc Berkshire
Image caption, The government-funded project will monitor participants for a yearBy Patrick O'Hagan & Allen Sinclair & Curtis LancasterScientists are looking into whether fruit and vegetable vouchers could improve the health of poorer families. The University of Reading has worked with the Whitley Community Development Association (CDA) on the government-funded study. On Saturday 150 people received a voucher for a greengrocer, while 150 others did not.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | Allen Sinclair
A scheme offering football training to teenagers and young adults is helping them "steer away" from getting involved in knife crime, one of its coaches has said. Reading FC's sessions are among the projects funded through Thames Valley Police's Violence Reduction Unit. They are aimed at improving self-esteem and offering trusted role models. Football coach Paul Brown said sport was a "diversionary activity" for those vulnerable to falling into crime.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
bbc.com | Allen Sinclair
Image caption, The football training sessions are held every Friday nightA scheme offering football training to teenagers and young adults is helping them "steer away" from getting involved in knife crime, a coach has said. Reading FC's sessions are among the projects funded through Thames Valley Police's Violence Reduction Unit. They are aimed at improving self-esteem and offering trusted role models.
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May 23, 2023 | 
bbc.com | Jo Couzens |Allen Sinclair
Image caption, Plasterer David Gregory is among a number of heritage craft experts at the centreBy Jo Couzens & Allen SinclairA community of traditional building craft experts has been created in a bid to preserve and pass on their skills. The National Trust said it hoped crafts like stone carving, ironwork and lime plastering would be saved as a result of its new centre in Oxfordshire. It said a skills shortage within the conservation sector was putting heritage buildings at risk.
