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BYGONES: Bracknell is not a sinking shipâ - response to 1989 article FOLLOWING a series of high-profile company redundancy notices a headline in the Bracknell News in 1989 announced: “Laugh? We almost moved to Bracknell. the town where elephants go to die.” This rather unfortunate strapline was followed up with the opening paragraph: “Bracknell, the land of winding roundabouts, spiralling house prices, soaring land costs and redundancies.” The misery of thousands of job losses at local electronics and engineering companies had featured in a special report in Computing magazine, revealing that many employers were leaving like “rats from a sinking ship.” But East Berkshire MP Andrew MacKay hit back at the doubters: “Bracknell is by no means a sinking ship, there are new companies moving in all the time, Nixdorf, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Panasonic are all coming to town.”
Nine roads resurfaced and more on the way THE Wokingham Borough Council has revealed information on the next step in resurfacing the borough s roads, after £500,000 worth of repairs has just been completed. Progress so far has been part of the Wokingham Borough Council s (WBC) £8million investment into repairing the borough s roads throughout 2020 into 2021. Road completed this august include key roads such as Longwater Road, Finchampstead, Davis Street, Hurst, and Crockhamwell Road and Headley Road in Woodley. Cllr Pauline Jorgensen, executive member for highways and transport, “Keeping road surfaces up to scratch is important for our residents, especially in the winter months when it can be icy.