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Harm-reduction vending machines offer free naloxone, pregnancy tests and hygiene kits

In the lobby of the YMCA in Reading, Pennsylvania, stands a row of vending machines – but one machine is different from the rest.

The Conversation

Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well

“Exit light, enter plight”, apparently

Metal Hammer

Watch: we asked people at Reading 2025 what the most metal thing they’ve ever done at a festival was

From hellacious moshpits to getting piercings in a tent, artists and attendees at Reading festival tell us some of their most metal tales

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Reading and Leeds festival review – Chappell Roan slays and Bring Me the Horizon power the circle pits

Thousands of post-GCSE teens join acts from pop-poet Antony Szmierek to rap megastar Travis Scott, before Hozier blazes and Wunderhorse go off like a rocket

The Guardian - UK

The Kooks frontman, Luke Pritchard, says Reading set felt like a ‘homecoming’

The Brighton-formed band is known for their hit songs Naive, She Moves In Her Own Way, and Junk Of The Heart (Happy).

Evening Standard

Chappell Roan at Reading Festival review: simply femininomenal

4/5 The singer delivered a high-camp, high-kicking dance party for her Reading Festival set

Evening Standard

The Golf Club That Has Moved Twice And Changed Name Three Times In 127 Years

When Reading Golf Club moved home in April 2021 to the former Caversham Heath course, it took on its latest name of 'The Caversham, Home of Reading Golf Club'...

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Best commuter towns: four areas within 45 minutes of London with house prices from £350,000

Keen to move but not keen on the journey? Here are top towns within 45 minutes of London

Evening Standard

Gordon Ramsay 'signs whopper deal to appear in Burger King advert'

Hell's Kitchen star Gordon Ramsay is said to have signed a six-figure whopper of a deal to appear in a Burger King advert, after he was spotted filming outside one of the eatery's restaurants in Reading, Berkshire, last week.

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Recalling a reading initiative that went awry

Letters: Readers respond to a feature about the controversial Initial Teaching Alphabet, which was adopted by some schools in the 1960s but had a lasting impact

The Guardian - UK

BMW worker was fired after bosses authorised secret filming over back pain

Mohamed Kerita, who worked in the firm’s manufacturing factory, suffered with back pain from 2017, the tribunal in Reading heard

The Independent UK

Jamie Gittens: Chelsea confirm £55m signing of Borussia Dortmund winger

Reading-born winger returns to English football after four years in Germany

Evening Standard

Tributes paid to elderly sisters killed in collision while on ‘morning walk’

The women, aged 70 and 68, died after colliding with the car on Peppard Road in Caversham, Reading at around 7.55am on Friday.

Evening Standard

Man arrested after 15-year-old girl who was missing for a year is found in his apartment

A 15-year-old girl who went missing last year from Reading, Pennsylvania, was found in High Point, North Carolina.

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The Conversation

Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of art activism beloved by Banksy

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail. The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the stencil he used to create the work (a projected £10 million) to set up an arts…

Evening Standard

The Elizabeth Line: room rents up by almost 40 per cent in three years since launch

The average price of a room along the line has risen from £628 to £839 per month since 2021, according to new data from SpareRoom

The Independent UK

Festival packing list 2025: What to bring to Reading & Leeds, Creamfields and more

From tents and camping chairs to dry shampoo, SPF and wellies, tick off this list while you pack

Evening Standard

William suggests enforced career breaks to protect NHS workers’ mental health

The Prince of Wales visited the Oasis Health and Wellbeing Centre and garden in Reading, used by staff from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

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The Independent UK

Signalling failure causes major disruption for commuters

Great Western Railway (GWR) said its services between London Paddington and Reading are suspended because of the fault in Twyford, Berkshire.

Evening Standard

London travel news LIVE: Severe delays on the Piccadilly line due to signal failure

Earlier disruption between London Paddington and Heathrow has now been cleared

Evening Standard

Reading and Leeds Festival to see ‘comprehensive overhaul’ of camping

Improvements will also be made to the festival’s toilet and shower facilities.

The Guardian - UK

Plight of Reading shows how football fans’ dreams can easily spiral into a death vortex

The Dai Yongge Show continues: eight seasons and counting at Reading. It is the soap opera no network can seem to cancel

The Independent UK

Prevent under review after failing to stop Southport killer, who else did they miss?

Sir David Amess’ killer and the Reading terror attacker were also known to the government scheme

Louder

“Too big for our boots? We were a bunch of kids destined for factory life. We were not going to screw this up”: The tempestuous story of Def Leppard’s High ’N’ Dry, the album that turned them into US stars

1981’s High ’N’ Dry was the record that introduced Def Leppard to America – and changed things for ever

Guitar World

“Even though a Marshall sounded fantastic, I refused to play one. That’s my bad… I had a terrible sound for years”: Punk-grunge icon Donita Sparks on ironic gear choices, L7’s infamous Reading Festival set and why recording with Butch Vig was “maddening”

The Flying V die-hard started playing live for a dare. She looks back at first picking up the guitar, keeping going through the heartbreak years, and the enduring success of her “joyous anger anthems”

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