Campaigners were celebrating after their hard work led to an appeal over plans to build more than 400 homes being thrown out.
Developer Taylor Wimpey lost its appeal against Bracknell Forest Council’s decision to refuse its plan for 390 homes at The Parks, which is the site of the former RAF Staff College in Broad Lane in Harmans Water.
Members of the Staff College Residents Against Madness (SCRAM) group were delighted with the result, which meant the estate now has more green space.
The plans were turned down due to overdevelopment and the impact on the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.
A row kicked off after clampers allegedly targeted a car with two small children inside it.
Dan Gallagher parked in Jennett’s Park while he dashed to collect his partner Lianne Walsh from her cleaning job in Harrier Way.
When he came back he found the clamper in the process of immobilising his car.
He had left his two daughters, Allalise, eight, and Riley, four, in the car.
The company, Park Direct, denied the children were in the car.
Witness Graham Townsend, of Harrier Way, claimed: “The lady in the passenger seat had the clamp ready before the vehicle stopped moving.”
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A fearless feline saved a man’s life after entering his burning house and waking him up.
Tabby cat Hugo bounded into Andy Williams’ bedroom and woke him by pawing at his face.
After waking, Andy called the fire brigade and used his own fire extinguisher to battle the flames before fire crews arrived.
The fire is thought to have started in an electrical cupboard and produced a lot of smoke.
Andy was away from his job as an engineer for a few days.
According to his wife Sarah, the fire brigade said 15 minutes more and the fire could have been fatal.
Hugo was able to get into the house through a cat flap.
Five years on from a brutal attack on their dad which left him with brain damage, a family relaunched their plea for information.
The family of Michael Taylor, launched a Facebook group called “Help us find the B******s who did this to our dad”.
Mr Taylor has been in a specialist unit for brain injuries in Salisbury since the attack in 2004, but five years on his attacker is still at large.
His daughter Nikki, 27, from Great Hollands, urged anyone with information to come forward.
Mr Taylor was living in Rances Lane in Wokingham at the time of the attack and was either pushed or knocked to the ground, where he suffered brain damage.
A ten-year-old became one of the youngest people ever to scale Mount Kilimanjaro.
Jack Harley-Walsh from South Ascot took on the tough task to raise cash for Sebastian’s Action Trust and Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance.
His mum Sue also went along and said she and her son had a “meaningful huge embrace” when she got the summit, an hour after he did.
Bracknell recorded its best A-level results with 97.6 per cent of pupils passing.
The borough is still slightly behind Wokingham and Reading but Brakenhale, Edgbarrow and Sandhurst schools improved their results from 2008.