http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/ Latest from the online edition en-gb Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:20:00 +0000 Copyright (C)2013 Clyde and Forth Press Ltd http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/feeds/ 54 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/furniture/mh/rc_logo_500x75.png http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/ POLICE have arrested two men on suspicion of hare coursing in a part of Englefield Estate. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65658-two-men-arrested-for-suspected-hare-coursing/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65658-two-men-arrested-for-suspected-hare-coursing/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:20:00 +0000 News A MECHANIC was rushed to hospital this morning after he fell and hit his head at Kwik-Fit in Richfield Avenue. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65656-mechanic-in-hospital-after-fall-at-garage/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65656-mechanic-in-hospital-after-fall-at-garage/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:50:00 +0000 News MOTORISTS could soon have smoother journeys around after Reading's roads were promised £678,000 for repairs. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65655-pound678000-for-readings-roads/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65655-pound678000-for-readings-roads/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:30:00 +0000 News COURAGEOUS Berkshire youngsters battling cancer could receive an award recognising their bravery. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65648-awards-for-little-battlers/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65648-awards-for-little-battlers/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:30:00 +0000 News A MULTI-MILLION pound cash pot has been set up to revive economic growth by helping business owners struggling to secure funding. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65650-multimillion-pound-scheme-set-up-to-revive-economic-growth/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/09/65650-multimillion-pound-scheme-set-up-to-revive-economic-growth/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:30:00 +0000 News POLICE want to trace this man in connection with a racially aggravated assault at a pub early on New Year's Day. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65643-do-you-recognise-this-man/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65643-do-you-recognise-this-man/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:15:00 +0000 News POLICE are hunting a thug who threatened a west Reading shop assistant at knifepoint. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65641-shop-assistant-robbed--cctv-image-released/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65641-shop-assistant-robbed--cctv-image-released/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:50:00 +0000 News POLICE are appealing for witnesses after burglars stole a ladies watch in Tilehurst. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65635-appeal-launched-following-burglary-in-tilehurst/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65635-appeal-launched-following-burglary-in-tilehurst/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0000 News POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a G4S security van driver was robbed at gunpoint in Whitley last night. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65630-driver-injured-in-van-raid/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/08/65630-driver-injured-in-van-raid/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:10:00 +0000 News POLICE have sealed off part of a forecourt outside a parade of shops in south Reading tonight after an attempted raid on a G4S security van. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/07/65621-police-swoop-after-raiders-target-security-van/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/07/65621-police-swoop-after-raiders-target-security-van/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:58:00 +0000 News A CAR crashed in to a ditch at Swallowfield by-pass this morning (Monday) and a man was rushed to hospital. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/07/65598-man-taken-to-hospital-following-collision/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/07/65598-man-taken-to-hospital-following-collision/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:20:00 +0000 News Accident happened between Junctions 8,9 and 10 http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/07/65596-threecar-collision-eastbound-on-the-m4/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/07/65596-threecar-collision-eastbound-on-the-m4/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:00:00 +0000 News A WELL-respected magistrate who dedicated nearly three decades to upholding law and order in Reading has died. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65585-tributes-to-a-respected-magistrate/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65585-tributes-to-a-respected-magistrate/ Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:00:00 +0000 News BRAVE Lower Earley youngster Amelia Saunders died today with her devoted parents at her hospice bedside. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65594-little-amelia-joins-the-angels/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65594-little-amelia-joins-the-angels/ Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:20:00 +0000 News LAST summer's Reading Festival boasted its lowest crime figures in six years. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65584-crime-down-as-festival-makes-pound7m/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65584-crime-down-as-festival-makes-pound7m/ Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000 News HARDPRESSED commuters hit by inflation-busting New Year rail fares are outraged at Government proposals to force rush hour passengers to pay more. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65583-fury-at-rail-fare-increase/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/06/65583-fury-at-rail-fare-increase/ Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:00:00 +0000 News COUNCIL bosses poised to collect a £1.5m windfall from developers in the wake of a collapsed deal for a controversially axed health centre insist they will ask local people how to spend the cash. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/05/65577-pound15m-waiting-to-be-spent/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/05/65577-pound15m-waiting-to-be-spent/ Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:30:00 +0000 News A GRANDMOTHER who refused to give up her dream of becoming an actress after her parents advised her against going on the stage has made her big screen debut - at the age of 76. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/05/65575-magic-movie-debut/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/05/65575-magic-movie-debut/ Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000 News VILLAGERS told horror stories of raw sewage spraying from their sinks and flooding their gardens, blaming Britain's Olympic rowing training base and other gravel extraction. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/05/65571-family-stranded-by-a-flood-of-sewage/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/05/65571-family-stranded-by-a-flood-of-sewage/ Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:00:00 +0000 News A MAN was ambushed at a cash machine by robbers who pushed what was believed to be a knife into his back and shouted at him to withdraw money. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/04/65586-robbers-ambush-man-at-cash-machine/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/04/65586-robbers-ambush-man-at-cash-machine/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:30:00 +0000 News A STOLEN van ruptured a gas main when it careered into a wall in Theale in the early hours of this morning. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/04/65569-village-gas-alert-after-stolen-van-crashes/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/04/65569-village-gas-alert-after-stolen-van-crashes/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +0000 News SONNING Bridge has re-opened to traffic. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/04/65559-sonning-bridge-reopens-/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/04/65559-sonning-bridge-reopens-/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:30:00 +0000 News PEOPLE with the winter vomiting bug Norovirus are being warned to stay away from the Royal Berkshire Hospital after more patients were struck down with the illness. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/03/65542-royal-berks-imposes-visiting-restrictions-to-combat-norovirus/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/03/65542-royal-berks-imposes-visiting-restrictions-to-combat-norovirus/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:00:00 +0000 News A MAN was left with a broken jaw after a fight outside a Reading takeaway shop in the early hours of Sunday morning. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/03/65543-appeal-to-find-broken-jaw-attackers-/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/03/65543-appeal-to-find-broken-jaw-attackers-/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:51:00 +0000 News BURGLARS tried to drill their way into a safe during a raid on a Tilehurst church. Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen the raiders getting into St Catherine's Church, in Wittenham Avenue, while it was unattended between 2pm last Sunday and 10.30am on New Year's Eve. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/03/65541-police-hunt-church-raiders/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/01/03/65541-police-hunt-church-raiders/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:15:00 +0000 News