Opinion
Leader: This is not a violent town 
Published: Thu, 4th Sep 8:00AM
THE town has seen two rapes in two weeks.
After years of falling crime rates in the town centre it is shocking and horrific that two women have been put through such a violent ordeal, whether or not the attacks were linked.
Comment
Leader: Festival brings town alive
THE READING Chronicle website has this week been inundated with contributions from people who had a bad experience at this year’s Reading Festival.
The BBC overpays its presenters, scams us, and we pay for it
THE BBC has been fined £400,000 for serial cheating on its phone-in lines. The broadcast and newspaper headlines were unanimous, and utterly wrong.
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THEY call it the greatest show on earth and, with all due respect to Barnum & Bailey, and forgetting for a minute the inevitable drug cheats and the crude commercialism, in sporting terms it probably is.
Help, put me in the real jungle away from the screaming kids
THE ordeal of an unavoidable shopping expedition into the jungle that is Reading town centre is never for the faint-hearted.
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