Thousands attended a special royal event in Windsor on Saturday to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The event featured 2,500 servicemen, bands and an impressive tri-service fly-past of 78 current and historic aircraft.
It may have stood dark and empty for years but the mammoth Taplow Paper Mill is now the leading light in a new nationally-released film. British thriller 'Four', produced by EastEnders actress Nina Wadia and her husband Raiomond Mirza, was filmed almost entirely at the disused and derelict Mill Lane site in February last year.
Sometimes it's time to stop running and enjoy the world. That's the message Reading-based band Amys Ghost are trying to get across in the brand new video for their single Peaceful Sleepers. Part-filmed in the Oxfordshire countryside, its theme is one to which many people can relate. Singer Amy Barton explained: "I'm one of these people who always has far too much on my plate and I don't really have a lot of time to myself.
Actress Lynda Bellingham describes her experiences coping with her mother's dementia in a new video released by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. With support from the Big Lottery fund, the the video has been released as part of Dementia Awareness Week next week. The primary care trust, NHS Berkshire, also marked the week by announcing that a dedicated dementia care advisor will help people living with the disease and their carers in the borough.
Rape victim Doreen Smith, known as Joy, has spoken out after the man who raped her in a McDonalds toilet cubicle in 1986 was jailed. Rapist Alexander McGuire, 60, of Greyhound View, Sandy Lane, Bedfordshire, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday for eight years behind bars. Reporter Laura Enfield spoke to the victim outside court after Friday's sentence. Watch the video interview with Joy.
