Tilehurst, Calcot and Theale Labour

07/05/2026

06/05/2026

Let’s Tidy Up, Together

If you’re up for a gentle morning wander with a bit of purpose, why not get involved in our next Community Litter Pick and help keep our shared spaces tidy.

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01/05/2026

It’s under a week until residents in the Reading Borough Council area of Tilehurst are able to vote for a new local councillor.

Please use your vote for Caroline Basden for Tilehurst - a fresh, strong voice for Tilehurst!

9 days to go!!

In the last General Election Tilehurst voted for Labour and Olivia Bailey. In Local Elections it’s been some time since Labour had a determined, local candidate. This is the year to have a new voice in Tilehurst.

Please consider using your vote for me:

🏡 A Tilehurst resident for most of my life 🏡

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Raising my family here and understanding what our village needs 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

🤝 A history of volunteering with the local community 🤝

🏦 A leader in financial services bringing vast experience of budgeting and strategic planning 🏦

25/04/2026

If you live in the Reading Borough Council part of our branch please ensure you return your postal vote and 🌹

I’m getting lots of messages from friends today to say their postal votes have arrived!

If you live in Tilehurst please tick that top box to vote for me and pop in the postbox 📮

27/03/2026

Clive Taylor is our exceptionally hardworking Councillor in Tilehurst Birch Copse. It’s great to see him working with Caroline Basden, Labour Candidate in Tilehurst (Reading Borough Council).

It was great to help take action today towards resolving some local traffic problems.

Cllr Clive Taylor, from the Tilehurst Birch Copse ward in West Berkshire, had a local resident report the parking problems on City Road to him. This is always bad at school run time when it’s hard to get down the road and is especially dangerous for families with small children. When the West Berkshire team went out they noticed a lot of the issues were actually on the Reading Borough Council side - City Road is right on the council boundary.

I raised Cllr Taylor’s email with Cllr John Ennis, the lead Councillor for Transport and he referred me to the Parking Services team who were amazing - they contacted me the same day (today) and sent enforcement officers out this afternoon.

They happened to meet Cllr Taylor and the West Berkshire team and are now working together to make this area safer. A great result from the Labour team working together across council boundaries.

*Photo taken at lunchtime, definitely not school run time!

04/03/2026

The Reading Buses 26 bus has been diverted along the A4 Bath Road in Calcot for the last two weeks owing to a pot hole at the Pollards Way bus gate. This has meant that the four bus stops along Pollards Way and The Chase have been out of use. Passengers (including elderly and disabled) have had to cross the busy A4 Bath road in order to catch a bus into Reading. A local resident has been told that it will be 28 days before this pot hole is fixed. West Berkshire Council are not showing a great level of care for Calcot residents.

01/03/2026

Under this Labour Government, the average mortgage cost in Reading West & Mid Berkshire is £2,620 cheaper- a change unheard of under the previous Tory governments.

14/02/2026

With Olivia Bailey MP – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

31/01/2026

For the first time in a generation, workers are getting a real, tangible upgrade to their rights- and this bill is delivering it.

28/01/2026

After years of Tory neglect, our prison system wasn’t just struggling — it was days away from total breakdown.