For Nostalgia this week, we take a trip down memory lane to look at top stories around Bracknell at the start of 1996.
January saw North Ascot schoolgirl Alex Clayton lauded after she saved a baby’s life with her quick thinking.
The 16-year-old was a Year 11 boarder at the Licensed Victuallers School, in Fernbank Road, but returned home to Canterbury to do a week’s work experience with Kent Police.
She was out with an officer when they were waved down by a young man who begged them to help an anxious mother whose baby was “blue and lifeless”.
Thankfully, Alex remembered the lifesaving course they did at school and saved his life. She then monitored his breathing while the ambulance arrived.