1. Firm answers when you call

STAFF at Reading-based office specialist Executive Communications Centres (ECC) are celebrating after answering 10 million telephone calls on behalf of their clients.

2. 'It's time to prove we are big time' - Doyle

KEVIN DOYLE believes it will take “one more season” before Reading can start attracting star players to the Madejski Stadium.

3. Ballistic beats

If you love both dance music and the festival season, then Sounds is about to put a beaming smile on your face.

4. Mum hits cop with bat

A PREGNANT mother-of-two from Great Hollands was sentenced to four-and-a-half months in prison for hitting an off-duty police officer with a baseball bat.

5. Never just black and white

Promoters Black & White launch their new gig night at The Arches on Thursday, June 21.

6. Celebrating Asian culture

Now firmly established in the local cultural calendar, Reading’s annual celebration of Asian arts is relaunched as Dhoom Dhamaka.

7. Ward closure: Staff fear for future of Heatherwood

8. Twenty-five years of fun

THE Henley Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer when from July 11-15 it takes over the riverbank for a little messing about in boats.

9. Desertion and desire

SOME years ago, actor-musician Andrew Bevis missed out on the chance to play the title role in the musical Martin Guerre, so he is glad he has finally caught up with it in Berkshire.

10. Kate Winslet stars in controversial film Little Children

IF you didn’t know 31-year-old Kate Winslet is a West Reading girl born and bred you may think she was American.