Here are the top stories from the past week in Reading you do not want to miss.
1. Blue Collar Corner opens in Hosier Street
A food market made out of shipping containers opened on Saturday, March 12.
2. Olly Stephens: Why Reading murderer's appeal was dismissed
The 15-year-old boy who murdered Olly Stephens has seen his appeal to overturn his conviction thrown out.
Judges at one of the UK’s top courts heard how it was the ‘ultimate unfairness’ that the jury in the trial of the 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was not shown evidence about his Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis.
3. Food hygiene inspector finds cockroaches in Reading shop
Cockroaches and rat droppings were discovered at a Reading shop selling meat and groceries, their latest food hygiene inspection shows.
Amazing Grace Superstore was ‘very dirty,’ stock was seen on the floor and there was no food safety management system, an inspector found on October 12, 2021.
4. Rowe Court fire Reading: Hakeem Kigundu denies murders
A man accused of murdering two men by setting an apartment building alight has denied all charges levelled against him.
Hakeem Kigundu, 31 and of no fixed address, is accused of two counts of murder in relation to the flat fire at Rowe Court that killed two men in their forties in December 2021.
5. M4 crash Reading: Family pay tribute to 'loved' grandmother
The family of a 68-year-old woman who died in a crash on the M4 have released a moving tribute to her.
Pulvinder Dhillon died after her car collided with another just before junction 12 westbound on Monday, March 7.
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