Bracknell

Bracknell train passengers face rail replacement services

Network Rail, the British State-owned company responsible for the nation’s railway infrastructure, is set to begin railway reliability upgrades between the Reading, Bracknell and Gatwick Airport stations.
This week-long upgrade, taking place over the F…

M3 traffic: No arrests yet in hard shoulder crash death

The man died after being hit by an HGV when he got out of his car on the hard shoulder. 
The man from Bracknell, who was driving a blue BMW 320D, was first involved in a collision with a blue Audi Q5 on the northbound carriageway near Junction 5 on Wed…

Driver of car on hard shoulder dies in lorry crash

A man has been struck and killed by a lorry on a motorway after getting out of his car following a crash.The crash happened on the northbound carriageway of the M3 near Junction 5 for Hook shortly after 13:15 GMT on Wednesday.The drivers of the cars in…

Man in his 50s dies after crash with lorry on M3 near Hook

Police were called to a crash[1] shortly before 1.30pm yesterday involving a blue Audi Q5 and a blue BMW 320D.
Both drivers pulled over onto the hard shoulder on the northbound carriageway near junction five.

The BMW driver, a man in his 50s from Brac…

M3 hard shoulder car crash driver struck and killed by lorry

A man has been struck and killed by a lorry on a motorway after getting out of his car following a crash.The crash happened on the northbound carriageway of the M3 near Junction 5 for Hook shortly after 13:15 GMT on Wednesday.The drivers of the cars in…

M4 and M3 road closures in Berkshire to cause disruptions

M4 Smart Motorway work will affect the length and breadth of the M4 across Reading, Bracknell, and Slough causing overnight disruptions and delays.
These will require road closures between 8 pm and 6 am throughout November.
Another affected area will b…

Oxford University denies entry to math genius as paper lost

Jack Graham, 18, who completed his maths GCSE at the age of eight, had a conditional offer to study mathematics at Oxford University.
He sat his maths A-Level in May but was downgraded from an A* to an A after the OCR mislaid one of his papers. This me…

Highs of 29C in Reading and Berkshire as Indian Summer arrives

After a relatively damp summer, many people will have been left revelling in this late-season sunshine. Temperatures have risen above average and the rain appears to have largely abated.
While it has not been cold this summer, it has been noticeably da…