Bracknell 50th

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  Published: 21 Feb 2009 12:00 (1)

  Voting for top dogs

  THE Bracknell News was a fresh-faced 39-year-old when I began my tenure there in 1998.

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  Published: 20 Feb 2009 12:00

  Sports mad brothers are pride of Binfield

  Hazel Cheney sends in her memories of her husband George and brother-in-law Horace - one of the Bracknell News' first reporters.

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  Published: 19 Feb 2009 12:00

  Golden girls roll back the years

  GOLDEN girls from the 1950s have shared their stories about competing in a carnival queen competition.

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  Last updated: 6 Feb 2009 12:01

  Amazed by the vast new town

  Over the next few weeks we will besharing people's thoughts as part of our 50th anniversary. This week Richard Crowe talks to Anne Sherman.

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  Last updated: 6 Feb 2009 12:02

  Win shopping vouchers!

  To celebrate the Bracknell News 50th birthday, we have teamed up with local businesses to give away shopping vouchers, Sainsbury's vouchers and much more over the next four...

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  Last updated: 6 Feb 2009 11:04

  Raising roof in Seb's name

  FORMER News reporter Sarah Clark worked on a story that lead to one of the biggest campaigns the paper has ever

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  Last updated: 6 Feb 2009 11:56

  Gritting fails: 'It's the wrong kind of snow' we were told

  THIEVES breaking into Broadmoor high-security hospital and the Ascot vicar whose new wireless microphone system broadcast his Sunday service over the nearby train station'...

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  Last updated: 6 Feb 2009 12:00

  When Bentalls looked out onto green fields

  THEY were known as Bentalls Babes and in early 1974 the glossy-haired and well-groomed staff of the exciting new department store, with all its different concessions, brought...

• Bracknell 50th

• Fond memories of my old flames
• Well wishes from contacts of the paper
• From paperboy to pop band drummer
• Bowled over by Bracknell
• Our first editor
• The magical ride of a cub reporter
• Local pub says cheers
• Fears town would end up a suburb of London
• From office junior to royal reporter
• Wilde over moving the theatre

• Bracknell 50th

• 'Godforsaken hole' with scope for improvement
• 'Bracknell people are so friendly'
• Our man in Westminster
• A message from the founder
• Celebrating 50 years of the News

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  Published: 13th March, 2010 12:00pm

  Scrumming it down at school

  by Jonathan Kelly

  AN ENGLAND rugby star returned to his routes to give a gift to his old school.

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  Published: 12 Mar 2010 12:00

  'Bridge needs to replace level crossing'

  PUTTING in a footbridge "would not be impossible", says Wokingham's council leader.

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  Last updated: 12 Mar 2010 12:00

  Plot to oust Tory posted on YouTube

  AN ASCOT councillor has exclusively told the News that she will not let an alleged smear campaign affect her work for the community.

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  Published: 12 Mar 2010 08:00

  Jailed after stamping

  A JUDGE has sentenced three men who robbed and stamped on a man to steal his heroin to eight years in prison.

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  Published: 11 Mar 2010 16:19

  Pedalling for pounds

  PEDAL power was the key to raising money for an African school.

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  Published: 11 Mar 2010 15:00

  Books are brought to life

  HARRY Potter, Batman and Spongebob Squarepants in the same room can only mean one thing - World Book Day.

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  Published: 11 Mar 2010 13:30

  Cake fit for Heroes

  SHOPPERS can support servicemen and women by eating cake on Saturday.