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• Residents' new waste and recycling collection days from 9 June have now been confirmed
• New dates can be checked online at www.reading.gov.uk/bin-calendar
• Residents should look out for their personalised bin calendar in the post next week
• Changes will create a more efficient and reliable service

• Company owner and manager at two town centre shops fined over £58,000 for food and handling and health and safety breaches
• Follows a formal closure of one business in February 2024
• One of the largest fines for an offence of its type in Reading

• Twenty-six Reading schools have signed up for Walk to School Week, 19-23 May.
• The Council has funded activity packs to support pupils to walk or wheel to school during the five-day space themed challenge

New and fun challenges and activities are coming to all seven Reading libraries, launching from May half-term, and running until the end of the summer.

• All residents will see changes to bin collection days in Reading from Monday 9 June
• Changes will create a more efficient and resilient service with increased capacity
• There is no change to frequency of service which will remain as it is now

• Three fun-packed weeks of events and activities
• Saturday 10 May - Sunday 1 June 2025

A street sign on Reading’s Oxford Road has triumphed in the national Sign and Wrap Awards 2025

• South Oxfordshire driver to pay over £1,000 after operating illegally in Reading 
• Driver is also subject to 6-month driving ban from April 2025

• Shared 140m long footpath and cycleway links Beresford Road with new housing and shops
• New facility will go on to link with Richfield Avenue scheme and provide better access to school and leisure centre

• An entertaining evening of quizzing, bidding and eating at Reading Town Hall on 15 May.
• Proceeds will go to the Mayor of Reading’s chosen charities, Reading Community Learning Centre and Reading Prostate Cancer Support

• Families can have their bikes checked for free at five different community hubs and the town centre
• Dr Bike team will check and tune-up cycles and undertake free minor repairs.