This week we take a look at some of the top Bracknell News headlines from the turn of the Millennium. Delighted pupils from Great Hollands Junior School, in Wordsworth, welcomed their new head teacher into town in the year 2000. Paula Montie was a deputy head teacher at a London school and told Bracknell News that she was “absolutely loving it” in her new role and that Bracknell “has such a great atmosphere”. The same year saw Bracknell firefighters stage a car wash to raise £1,500 for four-year-old Lauren Hawkins. Lauren had autism and her family and friends were hoping to place her into a specialised school.
Here are the Labour candidates who are competing for seats on Wokingham Borough Council:
Andy Croy, Bulmershe and Whitegates
Andy Croy, Labour candidate for Bulmershe & Whitegates ward.
Cllr Andy Croy has served as a councillor for Bulmershe and Whitegates, and is the leader of the Wokingham Labour party. Cllr Croy grew up on a council estate in Wokingham, served in the reserve Forces and taught in Sudan and Kenya before changing career to become an accountant. He has one grown up son who, like Andy, was educated at The Forest School, Winnersh. For two years Andy was the only Labour councillor in the borough chamber, but now leads a group of four Labour councillors. The party is seeking to gain more seats to provide ‘real opposition’ to the Conservatives who dominate the Council.