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bbc.com | Patrick O'Hagan
Switch to three-weekly bin collections approvedPatrick O'HaganLDRSWest Berkshire Council said the change was part of its wider waste strategy that would save £150,000 a yearWest Berkshire Council will join its near-neighbours Bracknell in emptying people's main black bins every three weeks. The authority currently collects the bins every two weeks but hopes the switch will encourage more people to recycle items rather than throw them away in their standard waste bins.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Patrick O'Hagan
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2 months ago | 
bbc.com | Patrick O'Hagan
Council bids for devolution dealPatrick O'HaganBBC Berkshire political reporterBBCWest Berkshire Council is in talks with several other local councils over possible merger A council is in discussions with a number of neighbouring local authorities over the possibility of joining forces to become a single unitary authority.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
aol.com | Patrick O'Hagan
Just weeks after a £158m scheme to redevelop a town centre was rejected by planners, the project's backers have drawn up new plans to try and win over the doubters. The new proposals for Newbury's ageing Kennet shopping centre site would see the tallest buildings on the town centre shopping complex drop from eight storeys to six. The number of new homes would also be reduced from the previous total of 427 to 317.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Patrick O'Hagan |Katie Waple
People need to do what they can to prepare for predicted flooding this winter, a council has said. Councillors on West Berkshire District Council have warned the flooding could be worse than last year, or even as severe as it was in 2014. According to the council this summer was the third wettest in Berkshire since 1918.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Patrick O'Hagan
Patrick O'Hagan - BBC Berkshire Political ReporterOctober 25, 2024 at 1:27 AM·3 min readIf you live in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead then you might think yourself lucky, as for years you’ve been paying less in council tax than almost anywhere else in England. Only people living in a handful of London boroughs pay less. Live in Windsor and you’ll pay around £1,700 a year in council tax for a Band D property while in Newbury you’ll cough up nearly £2,300 a year for a similar property.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
bain.com | Roger C Zhu |Patrick O'Hagan |Evren Sungur |Sanjin Bicanic
Executive teams have become used to seeing ambitious targets for boosting productivity with generative AI. These targets are realistic. The first wave of generative AI deployment has only given a taste of its power to enhance the speed and quality of work, particularly in areas that were previously hard to automate, such as decision making, content creation, and complex data analysis.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Patrick O'Hagan
Patrick O'Hagan - BBC Berkshire political reporterAugust 2, 2024 at 12:26 AM·2 min readA decision to more than double the number of homes planned for a Berkshire district has been described as “a bombshell” by a senior councillor. The government has told West Berkshire Council to allow the building of 1,057 homes a year, rather than the current figure of 495. Neighbouring Wokingham Council will need allow at least 1,308 new homes a year, up from 748.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Patrick O'Hagan
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Patrick O'Hagan
Ahead of Thursday’s general election, BBC South is taking its red sofa out to key constituencies across the region to hear what matters most to voters. The thoughts and concerns voiced by the public will then be put to the candidates standing in the seat. We have taken the sofa to Wokingham, Berkshire. Since 1987 it has been held by the Conservative MP John Redwood, once a key member of Margaret Thatcher’s government. Not now though - he walked away from politics at the end of May.
