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As a result of the headlines about weather-related events, tourists are looking for new summer escapes as they find old vacation haunts increasingly uncomfortable and northern locations more welcoming, travel industry experts say.

Community leaders, councillors and representatives of Reading’s many communities all gathered recently for a Christmas lunch.

The all-out Reading Borough Council elections will be happening very shortly, so here are all the candidates seeking your votes in the newly created…

Readers reflect on the role of chance, randomness and responsibility in their own lives Is our life’s course predetermined or could we change it on the flip of a coin or throw of a dice? Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy Is our life’s course predetermined or could we change it on the flip of a coin or throw of a dice? Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy Letters Sun 2 May 2021 11.29 EDT Last modified on Sun 2 May 2021 12.01 EDT What high-quality letters (29 April) on free will. My A-level psycholo...

Those who suggest free will is an illusion are ignoring the gap in our understanding of consciousness and its relationship to the quantum realm in which randomness (ie indeterminism) has been proven to be real by the National Institute for Science and Technology’s work on a randomness beacon. Causal determinism in the human brain is on a shoogly peg, and it is likely that Laplace’s demon could no more make accurate predictions about the universe than about a football match, or any situatio...