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1. GREEN GODDESS TO THE RESCUE AS COUPLE CLING TO CAR ROOF
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002BY RICKY HINDMARSH
A GREEN Goddess was used to push a car out of a flooded ford in Wokingham just before midnight last Friday.
2. RECYCLING ARRANGEMENTS ARE A LOAD FOF RUBBISH
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002PEOPLE living in a Lower Earley close have called the council's new refuse service rubbish in a row over black box collections.
3. CASH WINDFALL BOOST TO KEY WORKER HOUSING
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002TWENTY-NINE affordable homes are due to be built in Shinfield as part of a £4.5 million Government cash injection announced last Wednesday.
4. UNEMPLOYMENT UP, BUT STILL LOW
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002THE number of people out of work and claiming unemployment benefit in the Wokingham district rose by almost a third in the year to October 2002.
5. LANDLORDS JOINING PUB SCHEME TO STAMP OUT TROUBLE
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002MORE publicans in the town are signing up to the Pub Watch scheme in a bid to rid Wokingham of troublemakers.
6. XMAS APPEAL GETS OFF TO A FLYING START
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002THE Times Giving Tree Appeal has got off to a flying start in its first week with dozens of tags plucked from our special Christmas trees.
7. WARNING TO ELDERLY AS BOGUS CALLERS STRIKE
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002AN 87-year-old Wokingham woman was conned out of £900 by bogus callers who tricked their way into her home by claiming to represent Age Concern.
8. PLANNERS TO BE LOBBIED ON DELAY OVER NEW CLASSROOMS
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002BY SARAH DAVE
ANGRY parents are set to lobby district councillors on Thursday, November 28, in a bid to speed up expansion work at their overcrowded Arborfield school.
9. STRIKE UP THE BAND FOR A WEEKEND OF CIVIC PRIDE
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 November 2002BY SARAH DAVE
WOKINGHAM is all set to enjoy one of its biggest cultural and civic events in 40 years this weekend.
10. POLICE CHIEF PLEDGES ACTION ON FOOT PATROLS
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 20 November 2002WOODLEY residents sick and tired of gangs of youths loitering in Kingfisher Drive were given assurances that a beat officer would patrol the area this week.
