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Blue Collar Corner is organising the Reading Food Festival. They also hold a twice-weekly pop-up event in Reading's Market Place
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Reading Food Festival 2025 to ensure variety is the spice of life

Tempting aromas and terrific ingredients will come together in Reading town centre this weekend, as the Reading Food Festival returns. Broad Street will...

Free Comic Book Day 2025 promotional image
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Free Comic Book Day 2025: Not one but two FREE fantastic comics at Reading’s Crunch Comics this Saturday

They say the best things in life are free and for customers of Reading’s Crunch Comics, that’s Free Comic Book Day. The annual...

Cocktails freshly mixed at Milk Reading PIcture: Dijana Capan/DVision Images;
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Milk Reading is on a mission to introduce town to ‘the finest booze available to humanity’

There is a corner of Reading that has stood the test of time, quite literally. Now, it is home to one of the...

Glen Dinning from Blue Collar Corner leaning on a sign that says BAR - only the first two letters are visible
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Blue Collar’s Glen promises an exciting 2025 for Reading’s street food scene

Street food in Reading is going to get even more exciting in 2025 according to Blue Collar Corner boss Glen Dinning.  Speaking at...

Some of the images from Leslee Barron's Reading At Night calendar. Clockwise from left: Reading Cemetery lit up from within the cemetery, the railway bridge on Vastern Road, the new Rising Sun pub, a doorway into Reading Minster church, artwork on the wall of Reading Market, Paddington Bear outside Waterstones
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Leslee’s amazing Reading-themed calendar celebrates town across 2025

Reading artist Leslee Barron is looking forward to 2025 after creating a new calendar showcasing some of the best photographs she has taken...

The exterior of Reading pie shop Sweeney & Todd
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TV star Adam Hills gives Reading institution Sweeney & Todd five stars

It’s a Reading institution and now it’s received high praise, a five-star review from a top telly comic. Adam Hills, who presents Channel...

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