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Race is on for £100,000 Accelerator Appeal

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THE Chronicle has launched a groundbreaking campaign to improve cancer patients' life chances with the next generation of high-tech machinery to battle the deadly disease.

Man rescued after kebab shop fire

A MAN had to be rescued by the fire brigade after the kebab shop below his flat caught fire.
Burst pipe in loft

THE cold weather is being blamed for a burst pipe in a house's loft.

Reading

Council chief's budget fears

READING'S ruling Labour leader has warned to expect a financial "tipping point" as her administration unveiled its budget proposals this week in the face of shrinking Government handouts.

Woodley & Earley

Over 50s rally for sport

VETERAN badminton players have been rallying to join a new fitness programme.

Around Reading

Hospital parking 'very important'

PATIENTS and visitors are being driven round the bend by a shortage of parking spaces at the Royal Berkshire Hospital's congested multi-storey car park.

Opinion

Avoid hypocrisy and brand them all blackguards

GIVEN the venue and the class of person lolling about the place when he said it, I can't have been the only one surprised when Dave got rollicked by the Speaker for using the word 'hypocrisy'.

THINGS are getting buzzy again in the voodoo sci-fi blues camp of Vienna Ditto. Perhaps understandably, for a band who performed their second-ever live gig on Glastonbury's BBC Introducing Stage back in 2009, and were hyped by Radio One at lightning speed, the Reading band felt the need to take some down time and catch their breath.

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