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Premiership giants Arsenal have thumped Reading 3-0 in the Carling Cup, ending the Royals’ glorious winning run.
The North London club’s goals were scored by superkids Jose Antonio Reyes (12th minute) and Robin Van Persie (42nd), and Arturo Lupoli (65th).
Pascal Cygan picked up the only yellow card of the game.
So that’s it. A comprehensive [...]

We all like yabbering away at times, don’t we? There is nothing like a good conversation, whether it is done face-to-face, over the phone or when txt mssging, which is why I’ve introduced Online Chat!
So what do I do?, I hear you ask (now conversing telepathically). The answer is: very little! [...]

Extended drinking hours have been introduced in Reading and other towns in England. It’s now the weekend - and the test begins. Gun St heavyweights The Fez and Purple Turtle will be serving until 4am, while other big players Brannigans, Mango, Po Na Na and Revolution will keep going until 3am. [...]

Unstoppable Reading FC trounced Ipswich 3-0 at Portman Road to go top of The Championship table with 47 points. Sheffield United, a point behind, drop to second.
The Royals’ goals were scored by Steven Sidwell, Leroy Lita and Kevin Doyle, in the 29th, 53rd and 77th minute, respectively.
Reading are now 22 games unbeaten and must surely [...]

In August 2005, I holidayed in windsurfing mecca Tarifa, Spain, with two friends. It is a town straddling the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and so incredibly cool that my teeth chatter at the memory of it.
One of the many hip bars in Tarifa, Café Bamboo, offered a fantastic smoothies menu. There was [...]

University of Reading cyborg Prof Kevin Warwick is to show off some of his team’s robots to school kids in a special presentation ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Future: Robots and Cyborgs’ on 12 December 2005 (11am-12pm).
World-famous Kevin, who is Professor of Cybernetics at the University, and who has had a number of computer chips implanted [...]

You may have noticed an orange button on the right-hand sidebar with the letters RSS.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (formerly “Rich Site Summary”) and, really simply, allows you to receive a news feed for How cool is that? You can use RSS to subscribe to many other feeds, from ABCNews.com to the [...]

The Reading FC ‘Dream Team’ spanked Hull City 3-1 in The Championship to move within one point of Sheffield United, who top the table with 45 points.
Reading’s goals were scored by Bobby Convey, Kevin Doyle and Glen Little.
The Madejski result means that the Royals are now 21 games unbeaten.
Click here to read a report by [...]

There are an amazing 94 Wi-Fi hotspots in Reading, according to Total Hotspots. The technology allows users within reach of an access point i.e. within a ‘hotspot’ to surf the net wirelessly.
Places in the town offering wireless connectivity include popular establishments such as Old Orleans, Bar 38 and Yates’s, the [...]

Imagine standing in the middle of Reading’s new metro station, the latest exciting addition to the town’s extensive underground system, and seeing walkways, a bar serving Vietnamese snacks and people sipping mango macchiatos at coffee shop Star Nero. Earlier it had been a futuristic concept on paper. Now the concept is brought to [...]