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As Wokingham Police Station was too small, the attic storeroom was used as the incident office; the police also promptly set up a mobile office at the fairground. [5] Two days after the disappearance, police had to use the Wokingham Baptist Church on Milton Road in Wokingham (immediately behind the police station) as a meeting room. [5]
The newspaper covers Wokingham, Earley, Woodley and all of the places covered by Wokingham Borough Council. The paper's weekly circulation is reportedly about 5,500 copies. Wokingham Today was formerly known as Wokingham Paper, which was initially established in 2015. [2] It has a sister paper published in Reading known as Reading Today [3]
1997 – Mexico City a commuter train hit a fuel tanker at a crossing and later exploded killing at least 20 people; the explosion was recorded by a news helicopter. [ 99 ] December 2006 – Cuautitlán level crossing disaster — A passenger bus hit by thirty-six cars of a freight train and killing at least twenty-eight, another fourteen were ...
The worst rail accident in Wales was the 1868 Abergele rail disaster, with 33 dead. The accident on the London Underground with the highest loss of life was the Moorgate tube crash which occurred on the Northern City Line in 1975 (which was at the time part of the London Underground Network), in which 43 died.
Thames Valley Police's Counter Terrorist Unit is responsible for responding to any search related or explosive or terrorist incident, working with Protection Group to guard anyone deemed to be at risk and with dog section to locate the explosive. The unit has four explosive ordnance disposal advisors. [18]
Wokingham became a chapelry in the Middle Ages; its church of All Saints was built in the 14th century, probably on the site of a 12th-century chapel. [12] The chapelry of Wokingham was a separate civil parish from an early date, but remained part the ecclesiastical parish of Sonning until 1812. [11] The town was also an ancient borough.
Woodley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, in Berkshire, England. Woodley is 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Reading and adjoined to Earley which is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the west of the town and Woodley is 5 miles (8 km) from Wokingham. Nearby are the villages of Sonning, Twyford, Winnersh, Hurst and Charvil. Woodley is the largest ...
Wokingham Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council has been under no overall control since 2022. Following the 2024 election a minority Liberal Democrat ...