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The Electoral Calculus website has predicted a result for Bracknell in the general election

In 2022, we lost the Queen of an Empire and the Most Popular at Meeting Street School.

Tucker Marder showcases his passion for environmentalism and historic plants. On a tour, Marder himself divulged the fascinating origins of some of the trees seen throughout this expansive property, including a seedling from the last known living tree planted by famed gardener Johnny Appleseed. Other notable trees include a Ginkgo from a seedling of a tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945; a tree that descends from the tree under which Hippocrates was allegedly sitt...

SIR – My mother’s wedding was both green and economical (Letters, June 3). She married in 1945, just after my father was demobbed, and made a rather impressive dress – complete with train – out of my father’s now redundant parachute. My father wore his RAF uniform, because he had no other suit. I can remember the parachute-silk petticoats my mother and I wore for many years afterwards, which she made from the dress and its remnants. Kate Alexander A pipe of peace SIR – Andrew Graham...