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Why Reading Matters
Not the place but the activity. Rita Carter presented a one hour programme on BBC Four that could easily have been a series. This was a terrifically fudged programme. Rita Carter is an experienced science writer, with a special interest in the workings of the brain but she s... Read more ...
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'Cosy Coffee Shops' in Reading?
The county town of Berkshire a mecca for lovers of independently run coffee shops? Surely not. But a newish website has just proved otherwise. For decades the rulers of what I used to call the People's Republic of Reading devoted themselves to stripping the character out of the place. They... Read more ...
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Being there
Almost seven, my niece sits with me, reading. I hold her close. She holds a postcard sent from Australia: "We have arrived at a small town famed for its statue of a dog on a tucker box" Her eyes are so perfectly blue, they seem like crystal. Her concentration is absolute - she is unblinkingly in... Read more ...
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Have they put the gaslights back on the gewgaw...
Sir Edward Simeon, who paid for the obelisk Sir John Soane designed for Reading's market place in 1804, doesn't get an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography. This seems a pity, since he was a director of the Bank of England and much given to local munificence – even if in the case of... Read more ...
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