WHATEVER ENERGY-SAVING tips the government may put out this winter, here is an explanation of last winter’s message to ‘turn your gas boiler settings down to 60 degrees to save energy and £££’. Most gas […]
GIVEN THE new government will restore the 2030 deadline for the end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars, and has retained targets for the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) which encourage manufacturers to […]
THIS YEAR IS the tenth anniversary of Reading’s Bicycle (or Bike) Kitchen, where volunteers assist you to maintain and repair your cycle. They run maintenance courses and accept donations of bicycles to be reconditioned and […]
If it was a country, the internet would be the fourth biggest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, and a major consumer of water for cooling. In 2018, Google used 15 billion tonnes of drinking […]
WE’VE ALL HAD the annual requests from Plantlife for ‘No-Mow May’ and ‘Let it Bloom June’, but you can increase biodiversity in your garden and provide food for pollinators without long, flowering grasses and tall […]
FOUR SWIFTS were seen in Thatcham at the beginning of May, signalling the return of these summer migrants who stay a few short months to breed in the UK. Swifts, Martins and Swallows are natural […]
THE RADIO 4 programme Sliced Bread investigates the truth behind different products. You may not be interested in the health benefits (or not) of mushroom coffee, but we all have to do washing up regularly, […]
FAMILY, FRIENDS, local music lovers, and regular attendees of Concerts in Caversham will have been saddened to learn of the death this summer of oboist Timothy Watts, husband of pianist Adrienne Black, joint co-founders of […]
NOT BEING ONE of the Caversham clergy, I don’t usually get invited to do a Talking Point. But it happens that my retirement as Bishop of Reading coincides with the 60th anniversary of The Caversham […]
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Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)