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Toddler Ellie Beale has started nursery and celebrated her third birthday less than a year after being given a life-saving heart transplant.

An Elvis tribute act will wear an outfit made by The King’s tailor in Los Angeles when he performs his next charity concert.

Schoolchildren were asked to solve a murder and save the Starship Enterprise during a science festival.

A fundraising appeal for a three-year-old girl has reached its £200,000 target in just three months.

Official buildings in Reading have gone solar.

Generous donors have been praised for helping a charity reach a record-breaking milestone of £1 million.

Football fans are on cloud nine after Reading Football Club was promoted to the Premier League after four years away.

The University of Reading has gained good grades in an independent league table.

Savvy mum Maria Oliveira knew how to start up her new shoe design business – she created a catwalk on ice. The mum, from Lower Earley, came up with the novel way of promoting her first collection of shoes because she is such a big fan of ice hockey.

Reading Festival audiences have been thanked for their generosity, after 800 food parcels were handed out at Christmas. Crowds were asked to donate any leftover non-perishable food and drink items at the end of the festival in August 2011, to go towards needy residents in the borough at Christmas.