An “angel” painting that had been concealed under a layer of white paint for more than 40 years, was uncovered in Ascot in 1990.

The pulpit pillar wall fresco at All Saints Church was originally painted in 1891, by Heaton Butler and Bayne, and painted over in the 1950’s, when Victorian murals were deemed to be a little ‘old fashioned’.

The angel wall painting had been dedicated in memory to two young children, Clarice and Hewitt Fearn and a plaque erected to commemorate the sad event.

The late poet laureate, Sir John Betleman, had previously described the churches wall paintings as “the best murals in Berkshire”.

Wooden Hill Primary School, in conjunction with Bracknell police station, spent a week finding out how a police station operated 28 years ago, with a project called “Police Language in Evidence.”

Using a computer to generate real life incidents, the pupils had to solve them whilst running a control room in their classrooms.

Teacher Margaret Martin told the Bracknell News:” The children really enjoyed it- some of them even made an effort to come in uniform with hats and truncheons.”

A plea to help save a gentle giant dog called “Captain Pugwash” was published in the News and his temporary foster owner, Steve Norman, admitted he was “rather large”, weighing in at an impressive 16 stone.

Bought as a puppy, “pug” had grown to his huge size and become too much for his elderly owners, they had to find a temporary home for the six-foot long hound, as he could barely turn around in their kitchen.

Steve, who already had another four dogs of his won explained that he was quite inexpensive to feed:” He may be big, but he has a large heart, too and likes to sit on your lap and is a real character, everyone is putting themselves out to keep him going.”

An Ascot amateur musician, Bob Geal, set up a special charity in memory of his baby son who passed away only four days after being born in 1990.

Bob, and his wife Mandy, started the Gabriel Trust using money from selling album copies of Bob’s band “The Missing” to help King’s College Hospital buy a fully equipped unit for premature babies.

The trust had already covered the cost of producing the record, but local record shops were not willing to sell them and Bob explained:” At the moment we are selling the record through friends from our own home.”

Bracknell Forest Borough Council showed off its new council office foyer at a ribbon cutting ceremony 28 years ago outside Easthampstead House in Market Street.

The new reception area had cost £25,000, where the public would be able to pay rents and prepare for the community charge or “poll tax”.

Boehringer Ingelheim, donated computer equipment to St Sebastian’s School in Crowthorne, after hearing that the school association had sent out circulars to raise cash for new equipment.

Marketing director, John Barnes, visited the school to officially hand over the hi-tech gear to headteacher, Jeffrey Carney.