The following cases were heard at Reading and Slough Magistrates' Courts.

TALAILA HURLEY, 24, of Havelock Road, Wokingham, convicted of travelling on a Great Western Railway service without having paid the £2.32 train fare in Reading on August 13, 2020. Fined £440 and ordered to pay £2.32 compensation. Also ordered to pay £44 victim surcharge and £180 court costs. 
JOHN REED, 36, of Priestwood Avenue, Bracknell, convicted of travelling on a Great Western Railway service without having paid the £2.90 train fare in Reading on August 30, 2020. Fined £440 and ordered to pay £2.90 compensation. Also ordered to pay £44 victim surcharge and £180 court costs.
THOMAS BIRCH, 31, of Billing Avenue, Finchampstead, admitted driving while disqualified in Harmanswater Road, Bracknell, on December 24, 2019. Also admitted using a vehicle without the correct insurance in Bracknell on the same date and in the same road. Sentenced to 12 weeks in prison due to severity of offence and it being committed while subject to a community sentence. Also ordered to pay £122 victim surcharge and £85 court costs. Banned from driving for 36 months.

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