This week we take a look at some of the top Bracknell News headlines from the turn of the Millennium.

Delighted pupils from Great Hollands Junior School, in Wordsworth, welcomed their new head teacher into town in the year 2000.

Paula Montie was a deputy head teacher at a London school and told Bracknell News that she was “absolutely loving it” in her new role and that Bracknell “has such a great atmosphere”.

The same year saw Bracknell firefighters stage a car wash to raise £1,500 for four-year-old Lauren Hawkins.

Lauren had autism and her family and friends were hoping to place her into a specialised school.

A total of £200 was also raised for the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue’s benevolent fund.

In other news, almost 300 people crowded into Wokingham’s Cantley House Hotel to enjoy a fashion show that raised £2,000 for Macmillan nurses, while the Wokingham Lions Ladies annual fashion show, at The Holt School, also raised more than £1,000 for Action Against Breast Cancer.

Library assistants at Ascot Heath and Binfield Libraries dressed in Victorian clothes to celebrate the library service’s 150th anniversary.

The costumes were in the style of those that would have been worn in the days of the very first libraries.

Moving performances of the Easter story were given by pupils at Our Lady’s Junior School in Crowthorne, in preparation for a major Millennium show involving all the Catholic schools in the Portsmouth Dioscese.

All the students wrote their own scripts as part of the literary curriculum, and sang and performed under the school’s musical director, David Oldfield.

Finally, dozens of teenagers from schools in south east Berkshire took part in a national competition to decide the young enterprise UK company of the year 2000.

The students, aged 15-19, represented the top six south east Berkshire Young Enterprise companies.

The Honeywell cup was presented to the Marist School students, while pupils from the Ranelagh School were declared the runners up.