added 14th May

Design a Pizza For The Bracknell Food And Drink Festival

As part of this summer's Bracknell Food and Drink Festival 2012, supported by Waitrose, BRP are running a 'Design a Pizza' competition for 4-11 year olds.

Entries will be judged by a panel of people involved in the Festival on a range of criteria including originality and creative use of ingredients. The winning pizza will be chosen by special guest on the day TV chef Lesley Waters and the winners will get their pizza made at the event. They will also receive a goody bag of ingredients to make their pizza at home, a healthy eating recipe book and £50 of shopping vouchers.

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added 14th May

Vote For Sainsbury's Charity Of The Year

Sainsbury's in Princess Square are in their fourth year of having a charity partner and voting for who the next Charity of the Year should be started on the 11th of May and finishes on May 23rd.

The winning charity will be announced in June and they will receive a whole year of support and fundraising from both the store and Sainsbury's customers. Sainsbury's want to pick a charity that the local community are really interested in and one that is close to their hearts so the whole community can really benefit.

In June the nominations will be shortlisted and three charities will be...

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added 8th May

Peppa Pig Proves Popular In Bracknell!

More than one thousand people visited Bracknell town centre on Bank Holiday Monday to see Peppa Pig in an event organised and funded by Bracknell Regeneration Partnership. Over several sessions between 12pm and 4pm, hundreds of children got to see Peppa Pig in Princess Square. The Heart FM Angels were also on hand to provide face painting, hand out flags and entertain the crowds. By early afternoon the huge queue snaked all around Princess Square with eager children waiting to see their favourite pig, and footfall in the centre was up 42.8% compared to the May Day Bank Holiday last...

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added 18th Apr

Thames Valley Berkshire Lep And The Berkshire Media Group Are Collaborating For Growth With New Business Show

• Business Show 2012 to take place on 18th April at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Madejski Stadium, Reading, Berkshire
• Co-sponsored by SEGRO, Bracknell Regeneration and Reading UK CIC

Berkshire, 14th February 2012 - The Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (TVB LEP) and the Berkshire Media Group (BMG), the county’s largest independent newspaper publisher, are pleased to announce the first ‘Collaborating for Growth - Business Show 2012’, a one day event to encourage business growth in the Thames Valley which will take place on 18th April from 8.00 am to...

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added 26th Mar

Council's New Look Website Offers Easy Access To Online Services

Click on www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk from April 2 and you’ll find the new look Bracknell Forest Council website.

Some of the key improvements visitors will notice include:

* rapid access to the most popular services;
* information is easier to find and understand;
* a greatly improved search facility;
* more images to make the site more inviting and accessible.

There is a host of online services which visitors can use: from ordering blue recycling bins and renewing library books to making payments to the council and booking badminton courts. It\\\'s all...

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added 8th Mar

Electricity Works In Bracknell Town Centre

There are electricity works going on directly in the town centre today, If this causes you a problem with electricity power, please contact Southern Electrical directly on
0845 026 0654

added 3rd Feb

New Office For Romans

Romans Estate Agents, currently based in The Broadway, is continuing the regeneration to the North of the town centre with the building of a new 1,700 square foot branch office.

The construction team are already on site at The Ring, opposite The Old Manor House public house, and it is hoped that the new building, will be completed by November 2012.

The Romans Group, which has 17 branches spread across Berkshire, North Hampshire and Surrey, began life in Bracknell in 1987 and so is this year celebrating twenty-five years in business.

“As Bracknell is where we first laid foundations...

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added 23rd Dec

Christmas Comes Early For Lucky Competition Winner!

The winner of Bracknell Regeneration Partnership’s late night shopping competition to win an iPad2 has been chosen, and the lucky winner was Joanne Elder from Warfield.

Shoppers who came in to Bracknell town centre to shop on any of the late night Thursdays in December when the shops were open until 8pm (1st, 8th and 15th) were eligible to enter; all they had to do was present a receipt for a non-food purchase made after 5pm from a Bracknell town centre shop and fill in an entry form. Ms Elder was picked as the winner from all of the entries over the three weeks the competition ran and...

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added 1st Dec

Lemar Switches On The Christmas Lights!

Thousands of people gathered in Charles Square on Sunday night to see pop star Lemar perform on stage before switching on the Christmas lights.

The day had already seen a range of entertainment from groups including Street Feet Dance, School of the Arts, Artemis Performing Arts School, the Tilehurst and Caversham Rock Choir and Glee Club UK before Lemar took to the stage at 5.00pm to perform four tracks.

Lemar, who has had seven top ten singles performed three of his own hits including ‘If There’s Any Justice’ and ‘The Way Love Goes’ as well as a cover of Cee Lo Green’s...

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added 1st Dec

Christmas In Bracknell Gets Off To a Fairy Tale Start

Hundreds of people lined the route as Santa and Cinderella from the South Hill Park pantomime paraded through the town centre on Saturday morning in a fairy tale horse-drawn carriage to mark Santa’s arrival in Bracknell.

Santa was escorted to the first floor toy department of Bentalls to open his grotto, where he will be until Friday 23rd December, 11.00am-5.00pm Monday to Saturday and 10.00am-4.00pm on Sundays.

For a minimum donation of £3 children can visit Santa and each child will receive a gift. All money raised will be split between Bracknell Regeneration Partnership’s two...

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