1. Homes up for auction

Get Wokingham, Wednesday 17 March 2004
What am I bid? - Homes available from Romans go up for auction in Binfield - the sale proved a success, with most properties sold

2. Teenage kicks

Get Wokingham, Monday 22 March 2004
COME ON PUT YOUR BACK INTO IT – Difficult British teens don’t know what’s hit them in Channel 4’s Brat Camp

3. MP sees skills drilled into pupils

Get Wokingham, Wednesday 10 March 2004
BUILDING BRIDGES - Reading West MP Martin Salter meets Prospect Technology College students

4. International legal eagles who ‘do not beat about the bush'

Get Wokingham, Friday 12 March 2004
Clarks is a Reading solicitors' firm owned by a team of partners who elect their boss every three years. Since Alderman Arthur Clark established the firm more than 90 years ago, it has been representing the interests of businesses and people from across the UK and beyond. Managing partner Michael Sippitt tells Franck Marceteau how he joined the firm more than 30 years ago as a trainee when Reading had just started to boom

5. ‘We won't accept mediocrity - key to our success'

Get Wokingham, Friday 5 March 2004
Jeweller Douglas Jacobs is one of the very few family-owned or ‘independent' businesses left in central Reading. Since present owner Ian Jacobs took over from his father in 1966, Reading has grown immensely. He tells Franck Marceteau how important it is to adapt to change to survive. Mr Jacobs also says how grateful he is to the people of Reading for their support over the years.

6. First-time buyers waiting six years

Get Wokingham, Monday 22 March 2004
SAVING HARD: struggling to raise deposits

7. Failed firm's director in six-year ban

Get Wokingham, Tuesday 9 March 2004
UNDERTAKING: not to be boss

8. Florist is blooming nine years on - and future looks good

Get Wokingham, Friday 19 March 2004
Deborah Scott has been saying it with flowers for a good nine years now and her Twyford shop is still blossoming. A few months ago, she moved her business to bigger premises and earlier this year one of her staff won a Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen award for her futuristic flower arrangement. Today, she tells Franck Marceteau how lucky she feels to be able to do the thing she enjoys the most.

9. ‘Retire at 68 with doubled pension'

Get Wokingham, Wednesday 10 March 2004
Think tank: extra cost paid for by working longer

10. Three cheers for birthday

Get Wokingham, Thursday 11 March 2004
CELEBRATE – Staff at 3 at Great Brighams Mead celebrate their anniversary