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Wokingham, or the Borough of Wokingham, is a local government district with borough status in Berkshire, England. Since 1998 its council has been a unitary authority, having taken on county-level functions when Berkshire County Council was abolished. The borough is named after its main town, Wokingham.
Wokingham Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council has been under no overall control since 2022. Following the 2024 election a minority Liberal Democrat ...
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The municipal borough of Wokingham was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, with the area merging with the surrounding Wokingham Rural District to become a new non-metropolitan district called Wokingham. District-level functions formerly performed by the borough council passed to the new Wokingham District Council. [18]
A map of Berkshire, showing the districts: (1) West Berkshire; (2) Reading; (3) Wokingham; (4) Bracknell Forest; (5) Windsor and Maidenhead; and (6) Slough. A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England.
Clive Richard Jones [1] is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham since 2024. Jones was a member of Wokingham Borough Council from 2016 to 2024 and served as the leader of the council in 2022–2023. Before entering politics, he worked in the toy-manufacturing industry.
Earley (/ ˈ ɜːr l i / ⓘ UR-lee) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England.Along with the neighbouring town of Woodley, the Office for National Statistics places Earley within the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area; for the purposes of local government it falls within the Borough of Wokingham, outside the area of Reading Borough Council.
The newspaper covers Wokingham, Earley, Woodley and all of the places covered by Wokingham Borough Council. The paper's weekly circulation is reportedly about 5,500 copies. Wokingham Today was formerly known as Wokingham Paper, which was initially established in 2015. [2] It has a sister paper published in Reading known as Reading Today [3]