1. News

2. They’re all pure gold

Taste is delighted to report that yet another of our favourite artisan producers has scooped several awards in the country’s top foodie ‘Oscars’.

3. Hit or miss...

Was it a vintage Reading Festival? Probably not, yet Carling Weekend fans were still treated to a highly palatable offering that was as fun and fierce yet cleaner and greener than ever before.

4. A night out at Malmaison

On the outside Malmaison may look like an 18th century manor house, but as you step inside you are instantly embraced by an environment filled with a design that is very much modern day urban chic.

5. Henley Literary Festival offer – buy one get one free

Reading Alive and the Reading Evening Post have teamed up with the organisers of the Henley Literary Fesyival to offer readers 2 for 1 tickets to the shows featured here – Paolo Hewitt/Irvine Welsh/Mick Brown/Lucy Cavendish. Just call 01491 843404 quoting ‘Evening Post’. This offer is valid until September 6 and is subject to availability.

6. Comic social comment

Bernard Shaw’s comedy Pygmalion is not just My Fair Lady without the songs says actor Tim Pigott-Smith.

7. Mr Bean’s Holiday failed to impress

AS a youngster I loved Mr Bean and have happy memories of sitting with my grandparents at their house in Coley watching the television series.

8. Just the one for the road

HUSBAND and wife thespians Nick Wilton and Lynette McMorrough are playing a married couple in One For The Road at The Mill at Sonning.

9. Looming like a spectre...

Picture the scene – you are in a large, high-ceilinged study, lined with books and music equipment, which is playing endless classical music. The decor is a peculiar mixture of grandeur and horror, a cross between a baronial mansion and something out of black comedy Sunset Boulevard.

10. Keep up Keira – fame isa good job

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY – never one for keeping her mouth shut – has been having her say again.This time it’s about the blind ambition of some young people purely to become famous.