Extension lead sparks fire in Reading
Nick Gutteridge • Published 19 Jun 2013 18:20
A HUMBLE extension lead which overheated sparked an electrical blaze, nearly destroying a woman's house.

Road works and closures disrupt Berkshire motorists
MOTORISTS are facing delays across West Berkshire from a series of road works schemes.

Travellers could be gone before the weekend
A GROUP of travellers who set up camp at Three Mile Cross could be given their marching orders this week.
- Land Girls' key role at Royal County Of Berkshire Show
- Build up to last Reading Arts Week show
- Man cut free from car after A33 smash
- Reading students bring a whole new meaning to student digs
- Police career handed down for four generations
- West Berkshire police commander has high hopes for new role
- Star duo leading the way in build up to Starlight Hike
- Flurry of arrests in Berkshire after drink driving crackdown
- Road break-up causes Castle Hill lane closures
- Fashionistas to celebrate Reading Arts Week
- Go-ahead for £6m Woodley school renovation
Reading 
West Berkshire police commander has high hopes for new role
FORMER West Berkshire area police commander Chris Shead has been promoted to a top cross border job.
Woodley & Earley 
Go-ahead for £6m Woodley school renovation
RELIEF prevailed after the multi-million pound renovation of a dilapidated secondary school was given the go-ahead.
Around Reading 
EXPENSES claims at Wokingham Borough Council have rocketed by 130% over the last year.
Opinion 
Here lies a political career....and lies and lies
OVER the years it's become something of a truism that the way to tell politicians are lying is to check if their lips are moving. We had a variation on that theme on Monday night when TV news showed a montage of Chris Huhne denials.
The Guide 
Steaming drama at Theatre Royal Windsor
IN an interesting twist on female solidarity tales, Steaming takes place in the hot and intimate world of an all-female steam room in London's East End.
- Listen out for Mozart's The Magic Flute in Henley
- Salena Jones and Keith Mansfield team up for Powerful
- Reading Minster festival brings music to the Minster
- Martin Denny, Windsor Festival Director, shares what the Festival has in store
- Comedian Phill Jupitus talks stand up, audience participation and jazz
- Burnt Tomorrow talk Reading music and Hub Fest at Face Bar




















