Newsweek

Newsweek is an edited selection of this week's local news, as reported elsewhere.

• Reading named as 'city to watch'
• TV slot for Cocks's Reading Sauce
• Cycle Bridge over Thames
• Local councils hit out at hospital parking charges
• Communters face 'most crowded' trains in the country

Three themes emerged in the past seven days: civic identity, transport issues and the political battle over budgets.

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