One of my first memories of Michael Jackson who died of a heart attack this evening…

Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger summed it up as follows:
“Today, the world has lost one of the most influential and iconic figures in the music industry. From his performances with the Jackson 5, to the premiere of the ‘moonwalk’ and [...]

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The Reading Post have a video of Labour MP for Reading West, Martin Salter, hard at work during the election for the new speaker this afternoon, it’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it:

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One of the different sides of being a Councillor is being invited to a wide variety of events throughout the year, this evening I’ve just come back from a very interesting and informative presentation by the Royal Air Force.
The presentation was an overview of the wide variety of work that the modern RAF undertake, be [...]

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The Lib Dems and Labour seem to have given up across large swathes of Reading East, with no tellers or activity spotted at any polling stations in Caversham, Peppard, Mapledurham, Thames, Abbey and Park wards (possibly more, I didn’t visit every polling station). Probably not a surprise for Labour, however the Lib Dems have been [...]

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