Dan Hannan, MEP for the South East including Reading, has topped todays YouTube charts with his speech ripping into Gordon Brown gaining over 300,000 views, despite it being up less than 24 hours. An absolutely superb speech and well worth watching…
Dan has been a great supporter of Reading, I’ve had the great fortune to listen [...]

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Don’t forget to tune into The Apprentice at 9pm tonight and every Wednesday on BBC1, to watch Caversham based Yasmina Siadatan hopefully get hired by Sir Alan.
Yasmina runs the popular Mya Lacarte in Prospect Street, with her brother Matthew.
Best of luch Yasmina!

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Earlier this month the Local Government Assocication (LGA) produced a list of 200 words that Councils should avoid using. I decided to take a look at last months Council meeting, in particular the questions and answers from Councillors and members of the public.
The results of how often these words were used are as follows *, [...]

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Another busy month has passed, at the beginning of the month my diary looked very sparse, this turned out to be very deceptive indeed, especially in the past week where I’ve practically been living out of the Council Offices.

Attended a Conservative group education meeting, to discuss Children’s Services.
Attended two Conservative group meetings.
Attended a meal and [...]

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