1. Thames Water £100 million upgrade

Thames Water is spending £100 million to improve its sewage and treatment plants across the region over the next five years.

2. Get The Business: Cruz Kitchens, Woodley

Spanish designer Maria Graham explains how she can add some Mediterranean flair to your kitchen.

3. Sweet reward for ‘great’ coffee shop

Customers have found Caversham coffee shop Delicious to be exactly that.

4. Royal approval for technology experts Salamander

A technology firm which started life in a garden shed in Crowthorne has won the UK’s top business honour.

5. PWC appoints recovery services partner

Pricewaterhousecoopers has appointed partner Stuart Maddison to lead the firm’s business recovery services practice.

6. Romans empire branches further

Estate agents toasted the opening of their plush new Woodley office at a reception.

7. Local technology led voyage to volcanic vents

8. Sir John Madejski slips down The Rich List

Sir John Madejski has slipped down the Sunday Times Rich List 2010 but he still has a few pennies in the bank.

9. Microsoft team swoop in to spruce up club

A team of volunteers from Microsoft have spruced up a 250-year-old bowling club in time for the start of a new season.

10. Jobs top priority at business hustings

Employment for young people and loan charges from banks were at the top of the agenda in Reading this week.