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  Published: 11 Mar 2010 09:00 (1)

  Leader: Great souls, even greater sacrifices

  SACRIFICE has been called the passion of great souls.

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  Published: 25 Feb 2010 09:00

  Leader: Peace talks needed at Civic Centre

  THESE days even Sinn Fein and the DUP negotiate from opposite sides of the same table rather than posturing from separate rooms.

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  Published: 18 Feb 2010 10:00

  Leader: Here's to getting through the recession

  IT GOES without saying that these are uncertain times.

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  Last updated: 12 Feb 2010 13:00

  Leader: Speaking up for all the languages in our schools

  READING found itself making the national headlines again this past week.

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  Published: 4 Feb 2010 11:00 (6)

  Leader: Handcart for Mr Salter!

  BEING a Member of Parliament involves being all things to all men, and women.

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  Published: 21 Jan 2010 09:00

  Leader: Devastation has thawed our hearts

  THE trials and tribulations of Berkshire's big freeze have been put into perspective over the past nine days by the earthquake which tore asunder the very existence of the...

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  Published: 14 Jan 2010 09:00

  Leader: A snowflake's chance on the highways from hell

  THERE has been one topic of conversation this week, apart from the weather itself, and that is the state of our roads and pavements in the wake of the heaviest snowfalls and deepest...

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  Published: 7 Jan 2010 14:00

  Leader: Flaking out in the face of Mother Nature

  RECESSION, international terrorism, the start of the General Election campaign, and just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the icy grip of winter returned once...

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  Published: 11th March, 2010 05:00pm

  Letter: Sentencing and sensibility

  by Correspondent

  JIM Alston has done well in campaigning for a review on sentencing following the death of his son Bobby in a motorcycle accident.

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  Last updated: 11 Mar 2010 08:00

  Martin Salter's Westminster Diary, March 11, 2010

  A little bit of history was made in Parliament this week, when both the Government and Opposition front benches were defeated by a large margin when backbench MPs of all parties...

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  Last updated: 4 Mar 2010 11:00

  Stop the barbarism and start the reform

  WHEN will we stop treating the NHS like some spoiled brat who must be indulged to the full to ensure all the toys don't disappear from the pram in some epic tantrum?

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  Last updated: 4 Mar 2010 09:00

  Letter: Not in Gordon's back yard

  I feel that the Labour Party campaigners who called the Wind Farm protestors 'Nimbys' should take a look at their own esteemed leader before making such comments.

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  Last updated: 2 Mar 2010 20:00

  In the mail this week: Chew Lips

  It was with excitement that I opened this particular jiffy bag, after the storming performance electro trio Chew Lips gave when I saw them at the Oakford earlier this year.

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  Published: 28 Feb 2010 11:00

  Letter: Help us make star memorial shine again

  The Burma Star Memorial Stone, in the Forbury Gardens, which is dedicated to those local men who lost their lives in the Burma Campaign during World War Two, is badly in need...

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  Published: 27 Feb 2010 11:00

  Letter: Silent protest over wind farm

  MAY I suggest that Adam Sowan should have attended the recent Wind Farm Awareness Meeting in Arborfield when Dr Hanning clearly explained the real health problems encountered...