1. Yasmina, you’re hired (for the show)!

A restaurateur from Caversham hopes to cook up a storm in the boardroom as she battles against other would-be tycoons in the new series of The Apprentice.

2. Let the laughs begin

Get ready to exercise your chuckle muscles: the Comedy Festival is here again.

3. Comedy Festival Joe Pasquale

4. Laughter track

Take an old piano, add a quartet of middle aged gay men and what have you got?

5. Get ready for the greatest show in Reading

Prepare yourself for a summer of fun, fun, fun, thanks to Live After 5. Can you hear it?

6. Laughter track

Everyone's favourite doorman is back on the road again with a mission to explain why women are complicated and men are simple.

7. Open mic contest: The Final on Thursday night

Thursday 16th October sees the final of the annual Open Mic contest, one of the biggest events in Reading Comedy Festival’s collection.

8. Have you got ‘wow’ factor?

Budding singers, guitarists and street dancers turned out in force on Saturday as the search to find the hottest talent in Reading continued.

9. After Dark answer call for live music

Three music promoters are promising to bring the best up-and-coming bands back to Reading with an exciting new line up at the legendary After Dark Club.

10. Rockers band together to Thrash Cancer

Eardrums took a pounding as rockers thrashed their way to £600 at an all-day charity gig.