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The latest news, updates and features on Berkshire, a county located in South East England. Officially titled the Royal County of Berkshire, it is home to Windsor – where many members of the Royal Family live – and Windsor Castle. Other major towns include Maidenhead, Reading, Slough and Wokingham.

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Reading Crown Court where Phil Appleton, 71, of Springfield Road in Windsor is accused of stalking actress Anna Friel by sending "numerous messages, including those of a sexual nature", visiting her home on multiple occasions, and leaving "unwanted gifts" between January 1, 2022 and December 11, 2024. Picture date: Monday July 28, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Stranger 'kissed three kids playing outside their home before kidnapping one'

Channel: UK UK January 23, 2026 By Charlie Moloney
Carole Wright was who fined ??600 for 'fly-tipping' one box in front of some bins. // A daughter has blasted a council after her elderly mum was threatened with court and told she must pay ??600 - for 'fly-tipping' a single cardboard box. Grandmother-of-four Carole Wright, 83, took some rubbish to a recycling drop-off outside her local community centre in Reading, Berks., in October and says she put it all into a recycling bin. But days later a letter from Kingdom, an environmental enforcement contractor working on behalf of Reading Council, arrived - saying that the former secretary and nurse could get a criminal conviction for alleged fly-tipping. The letter includes a photograph of a worker holding a box with the grandmother???s address on it, alongside another picture of unrelated rubbish with overflowing bins in the background. Photo released 22/01/2026

Gran fined £600 for littering after cardboard box with her address on it 'blew out of bin'

Channel: UK UK January 23, 2026 By Sarah Hooper
Image of the coach on the road alongside police cars.

Two school buses crash on UK roads as temperatures plummet

Channel: UK UK January 7, 2026 By Luke Alsford
?A very sordid affair': How Profumo confided his 'intimacy' with showgirl Christine Keeler Getty Images

‘A very sordid affair': How Profumo confided his 'intimacy' with showgirl Christine Keeler

Channel: UK UK November 28, 2025 By Josh Layton
SET AND HOLD: Sentencing of luxury spa masseur Ibrahim Ali who sexually assaulted five women during treatments at the Nirvana Spa in Wokingham, Berkshire. Reading Crown Court sitting at Reading Magistrates? Court. Google

Luxury spa masseur who sexually assaulted five women is spared jail

Channel: UK UK November 17, 2025 By Josh Milton
Prince William and Kate smiling while walking

The 'great wall of Wills and Kate' goes up around their 'forever home'

Channel: UK UK November 3, 2025 By Josh Layton

Shuttered down and empty for 20 years: The mystery of Prince Andrew's marital home

Channel: UK UK October 29, 2025 By Josh Layton
Frogmore Cottage

Inside Frogmore Cottage after Prince Andrew contemplates leaving Royal Lodge

Channel: UK UK October 27, 2025 By Natalie Tambini
Castle Street in Farnham, Surrey

Work in London? The 48 best Home County places to live in with shortest commutes

Channel: Travel Travel October 23, 2025 By Alice Giddings
St Dominic Savio Primary School in Reading (Picture: Google)

Teacher banned over sending 'sexual messages' to 'paedophile hunters' posing as children

Channel: UK UK October 16, 2025 By William Hallowell
US President Donald Trump and King Charles III at the state banquet for the US President and First Lady Melania Trump at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, on day one of their second state visit to the UK. Picture date: Wednesday September 17, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Trump enjoys royal banquet hours after thousands of protesters call him a 'clown'

Channel: UK UK September 17, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at Stansted Airport, in Essex, ahead of the US President's second state visit to the UK.

Donald Trump arrives in UK after landing at one of the country's 'worst-ranked airports'

Channel: UK UK September 17, 2025 By Josh Milton
A hosepipe spraying out water.

All the places in the UK where hosepipe bans are enforced

Channel: UK UK August 12, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
Traffic is currently stopped on the M25 clockwise between J8 Reigate and J9 Leatherhead due to a multi vehicle collision. Emergency services are on scene

Major London motorway closed causing four-mile traffic after multi-vehicle crash

Channel: UK UK July 31, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
?? Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/06/2025. Reading, UK. A vehicle recovery truck and police car at the scene following a double-fatality road traffic collision. At around 07:55BST on Friday 27/06/2025, a car was involved in a collision with two pedestrians on Peppard Road, close to the junction with Cedar Wood Crescent in Caversham. The two pedestrians, a 72-year-old woman and a 68-year-old woman died at the scene. A 47-year-old woman from Reading has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Photo credit: Peter Manning/LNP

Urgent search for taxi driver who stopped at crash that killed two sisters

Channel: UK UK July 6, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Midsection Of Romantic Couple Kissing At Home

Map reveals UK cheating hotspot where the most people have been unfaithful

Channel: Sex Sex June 20, 2025 By Alice Giddings
Colourful houses nestled among trees on a hill overlooking the sea in Positano on the Amalfi Coast, Italy.

UK travel company goes bust with holidays to 'iconic destinations' at risk

Channel: Travel Travel June 16, 2025 By Kristina Beanland
EDITORIAL USE ONLY Undated handout photo issued by Kensington Palace of the co-educational private Lambrook School in Ascot near Windsor Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will attend Lambrook School in Berkshire from September 2022. Issue date: Monday August 22, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story ROYAL Cambridge. Photo credit should read: Lambrook School/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

'Sex attack' investigated at private school attended by George, Charlotte and Louis

Channel: UK UK June 15, 2025 By Luke Alsford
Michelin chef wins ?20,000 payout after boss ranted about 'unreliable Mexicans'

Chef wins £20,000 payout after boss 'ranted about unreliable Mexicans'

Channel: UK UK June 13, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Boy, 11, dies weeks after another child killed in M4 minibus crash

Channel: UK UK June 7, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

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