Stay informed… Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in your local area Go Powered by Public Notice Portal Privacy PolicyThis week’s public notices feature road closures and a planning application for the redevelopment of a ‘pay and play’ golf course on the Royal Borough border. A full planning application has been submitted for the redevelopment and expansion of facilities at Billingbear Park Golf Course, between Shurlock Row and Wokingham. Billingbear Park Golf Course is a publicly accessible ‘pay and play’ venue located off The Straight Mile, close to the M4. A cross-boundary application has been submitted as the site bisects the Royal Borough and Wokingham borough, but the proposed development will take place within the Royal Borough administrative area. The site currently includes the Old Course and the New Course, a modest clubhouse, car parking, practice areas and storage facilities.

Capital expenditure on the “distribution network” would be required even without the net zero target. While this would include the cost of heat pumps to reach net zero, it would also include the cost of replacing gas boilers when they stopped working, even without net zero. Overall, most of the capital expenditure attributed by Mr Muirhead to net zero would be incurred by the energy system anyway. Even if the £4.4816 trillion figure was correct, the average annual figure would be £172.4 billion, not £182 billion. Reports have said that net zero will cost £4.5 trillion, £7.6 trillion – the list goes on.

The Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia hosts a U.S. military base that would be important for any sustained kinetic campaign against Iran. (Google Earth)A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron taxis the runway at RAF Fairford, England. (USAF)A similar situation involving permission for the use of Diego Garcia took place shortly before Midnight Hammer. “Prime Minister Starmer should not lose control, for any reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, at best, 100 Year Lease. Despite the controversy over Diego Garcia, the U.S. buildup of forces continues unabated.

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DEATH PROBE Ex-footballer, 38, found dead in mysterious circumstances after suddenly going missing as former clubs pay tributeA FORMER Italian football star has been found dead in mysterious circumstances after suddenly going missing. Christian Jidayi, 38, was discovered in a forest by police investigating his disappearance with a probe into his tragic death now underway. Jidayi, born in Avellino, was first reported missing after he failed to show up at work on Tuesday. His worried colleagues called up his family, who quickly filed a missing persons report. The Italian minnows got promoted to Serie A – Italy‘s top division – in 2011-12 with Jidayi part of the squad.

A weird scheduling coincidence means that the tie will take place after a Tuesday visit by Liverpool to the Molineux in Premier League action. While Wolves were probably the best draw Liverpool could have gotten outside of a non-Prem team, playing them back-to-back presents a potentially tricky wrinkle.

Read our Privacy noticeCardiff City Football Club has been formally charged by the Football Association following alleged homophobic chanting during their Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat to Chelsea. The incident, which the Sky Bet League One club has strongly condemned, occurred during the match on 16 December, which Chelsea won 3-1, with Alejandro Garnacho scoring twice. The derogatory chants, attributed by Cardiff to "a minority of individuals", were heard early in the fixture. Cardiff concluded by stating: "No form of discrimination is tolerated at our club, nor should it ever be in society. Chelsea progressed through to the semi-finals after beating Cardiff but were knocked out of the competition by Arsenal earlier this month.

I sometimes worry that Black History Month is counter-productive. That’s my dream, so this Black History Month, I’d like to highlight some favorite things to enjoy all year…An IG account that keeps me learning: @ashleytheebarroness creates videos on obscure — sometimes intentionally disregarded — corners of history, tracing each topic to the present. I also love their totes, keychains, and pens — and the fact that it’s a business built from the heart of a Black woman. Five years later, my passion endures for this illuminating serum, created by a pioneering Black chemist. A beautiful night out: Admittedly, I’m not the most cultured person when it comes to fine arts — but I do love (love love) dance.

“I didn’t talk about the table, I didn’t talk about the position. You tell me this question with two games left, three games left, I will have your answer. “It’s 12 games left, it’s an eternity. Guardiola has been delighted with the form of the forward, saying: “It’s not just scoring a lot of goals in people that play up front. The teachers and the doctors have to be the most important people in society by far, not the managers.”

The man remains in police custody.” [image or embed] — Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 10:14 AMThe King’s statement was less vague. People on the other side of the pond watched with stunned envy, as the drip, drip, drip of information from the Epstein documents has yet to have any real impact on a single US politician or celebrity. — Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 2:44 PMWhen he was later released ‘under investigation’, Reuters captured an image of a shell-shocked-looking Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. — General Boles (@generalboles.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM6. — Nick Pettigrew (@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM10.

The founder of a global cryptocurrency platform has donated £25m to a charity he set up in 2020 to support autistic young people in England. Ben Delo, who co-founded BitMEX in 2014, named the Sheila Coates Foundation (SCF) after the late advocate for children with autism from whom he had received support as a child. It plans to use Delo’s £25m gift as an endowment to secure its future and strengthen its grantmaking capacity. Coates was also credited with developing a model for integrating autistic children into mainstream schools. “The support I received from Sheila Coates was genuinely transformative to my education and future outlook,” he said.

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After Trump’s second victory in 2024, American foreign policy returned to an even more aggressive stance towards Venezuela. It also gave the United States a sense of responsibility over Latin America, stating that any European intervention in the Americas would be perceived as a threat to the United States. Starting in 2005, China lent Latin American countries $74 billion over ten years for assistance with infrastructure and construction projects. Given the past and present successes of American intervention in the region, future US foreign policy will likely take similar actions against Latin American nations aligned with rival foreign powers, possibly without Congressional oversight. Alexandra Sitenko, “Latin American Vector in Russia’s Foreign Policy: Identities and Interests in the Russian-Venezuelan Partnership,” Politics in Central Europe 12, no.

The 20-year-old skater’s victory put the U.S. team in second place in the team medal standings. The Americans have the same number of gold medals as the Italians (nine each), but are outnumbered in silver medals (12 vs. five). For China, Zhongyan’s gold medal was the third gold medal won at the Games in Italy. The last time an athlete from Spain won Olympic gold was at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Representatives of Brazil and Kazakhstan also won one gold medal each, but Spain has the advantage of a bronze medal.

Suffolk has been named "gloriously isolated" and a "relatively unsung" location in a new list stating where the best hotels are in the county. The Times compiled the list of Suffolk's 15 best hotels, including those inland, on the coast and historic town locations. Restaries, WesthallThe Restaries was named the best as a rural escape and sits nestled on the Suffolk-Norfolk border. Marquis Suffolk, LayhamThe Marquis, in Layham (Image: Charlotte Bond)This stay was named second in the list and best for a spa getaway. Milsoms, in Kesgrave (Image: Charlotte Bond)Other hotels in Suffolk were name-dropped on the list, including: