Reading, England News

A VERDICT of accidental death has been recorded at the inquest of a lorry driver from Redhill who was crushed by his own vehicle.

Forget chilly winter nights spent under a blanket on the sofa, it's time to get outdoors and head to Caversham Court Gardens for movies in the open air.

The A 850 million revamp is not due for completion until next year, but existing offices all around have had, or are expecting, upgrades.

Punk rock legends The Undertones will be playing Sub89 in Friar Street on Bank Holiday Monday - more than 34 years after their first appearance in Reading.

The fourth in a series of public meetings allowing people in the Reading West constituency to speak to senior police officers took place this month.

Daniel Allen, of Fleetham Gardens, Lower Earley, Reading, faces two charges of rape and two of causing another to engage in sexual activity.

Following the success of the first Microwarriors documentary, Health Point Productions is now working on the sequel: Microwarriors 2, with Leonary Nimoy lined up to narrate.

Reading will be alive with the sound of music over the next three months as the Reading Summer Proms return with another fantastic programme.

An experienced HGV driver died after he tried to stop his truck from rolling down a slope near Reading railway station, a jury heard today.

A fundraising feast on Sunday aims to raise the final few thousand pounds for an operation to help a young disabled boy walk.

Not the start of a joke, but a motley band who grew up in Whitley and who are now hoping to wow music fans in upcoming music festivals in Reading.

A Whitley man has been jailed for 15 years after a jury convicted him on Thursday of hiding a stash of guns and ammunition.

This is the shocking CCTV footage of a young woman who was assaulted as she walked in Reading town centre in the early hours of the morning last summer.

Among the mayhem will be an agency looking to recruit foster carers in this area to give severely damaged children happier days.

This piazza of shops, offices, flats and restaurants is among the latest visions in the proposals to transform Station Hill.

Police have released this e-fit of a man it would like to speak to in relation to an incident of fraud and criminal damage in central Reading last month.

South Central Ambulance service received a call from Thames Valley Police at 5.09pm reporting there was a body in the water near Fobney Street, in Reading town centre.

Bus passengers in Reading buying a weekly ticket face a A 1 increase unless they buy online, at a PayPoint or at Reading Buses' Travel Centre in Broad Street Mall.

It plans to designate places where it will be an offence to tout for a theatre or other places of amusement or recreation, including the town centre, Caversham Road, Vastern Road, Richfield Avenue, Caversham centre, Portman Road, Loverock Road and the Thames towpath from King's Meadow to Scours Lane.

A drug addict hid an arsenal of guns, cartridges and bullets at his girlfriend's flat in West Reading after being threatened by gangsters, a court heard.