1. Bin blaze at Wokingham industrial estate

2. Santa visit helps boost NCT funds

Little faces lit up during a Wokingham parenting charity’s fun day when a special guest arrived to hand out bags of presents.

3. Help is at hand as digital switch approaches

Most regions have already gone through the digital switchover and it will be the Meridian TV region’s in just a few weeks.

4. Farley Singers prepare for a hectic 2012

The Farley Singers have always been small and local at heart, but for 2012, they will be pulling out all the stops.

5. Arrest may have led to man's suicide on train line

A police investigation may have prompted a 36-year-old Wokingham man to take his own life earlier this year, a coroner has ruled.

6. Review of the Year: March

Parents put up a fight to save an independent school in Finchampstead after it was announced vital funding was to be withdrawn.

7. Commuters face New Year fare increases

Commuters will see their rail ticket prices rise next year, with those travelling from Wokingham to London Waterloo paying up to £1.40 extra for their journeys.

8. Solar panels will give Bulmershe School 'substantial savings'

A Woodley secondary school has gone green by installing solar panels on to its roof.

9. Hamper helps hospice

A hamper packed with goodies was delivered to a delighted shopper who won a raffle held in aid of a children's hospice charity.

10. Council tackles the classroom divide

Urgent work is taking place to tackle the vast gap in achievement between the borough’s disadvantaged primary school pupils and their classmates after new figures revealed Wokingham has the biggest void between the two groups in the South East.