AS 2020 has been a year like no other, we look back at how life unfolded for the town over the past 12 months and revisit some of the top stories from the year. IT WAS a fairly gloomy start to the New Year in Reading with the predictable car park chaos around Ikea for the Boxing Day sales. Pictures once again showed queues and queues of people waiting to get into the shop, as well as scores of drivers just waiting to get out for the car park. A site that wasn’t too common at several other points of the year also.
17 Purple bus passes the Reading Chronicle Offices - 180406 26Yellow iPhone Photofeature on the Reading Buses 26 Servicefrom Calcot IKEA to Town Centre and return - Pictures: Katie Novell. A new hair salon is set to take over the former Reading Chronicle offices next to Reading Borough Council’s (RBC) Civic Offices and near The Oracle shopping centre. The Reading Chronicle vacated the ground floor offices at Bowman House, 2-10 Bridge Street, to downsize from two offices down to one and is now located on the basement floor only. Plans have been submitted by Piranavan Vimalraj to transform the empty office space into a hairdressing salon/barber.
Sue Ryder Duchess of Kent Hospice A DEDICATED duo has given almost three decades each to housekeeping at Reading Duchess of Kent Hospice. Tilehurst resident Debbie Harris is the Housekeeping supervisor at the Sue Ryder-run hospice, where she has worked for the last 30 years, and her colleague Debbie Macgregor, also from Tilehurst, is a Housekeeping assistant and has been at the hospice for 28 years. The pair have joined the campaign efforts, backed by the Reading Chronicle, calling for urgent help from the community to secure the hospice’s future. It is part of a Sue Ryder campaign to fight back against the impact of the coronavirus in its hospice care and battle to continue its vital work locally.
Reading Chronicle pic of the week
A very timely image for the season of the Royal Mail office from Martin Glen MSG Photography A VERY timely image for the festive season has made it s way to pic of the week. The team at the Reading Chronicle have chosen the striking snap from Camera Club member Martin Glen (MSG Photography) to take this week s title. The pic shows an image of the Royal Mail office as a mirror image with the vibrant and recognisable Post Office red colour jumping out the page. It was submitted this week as part of the Camera Club s reflective theme . The next challenge for members is patterns .