Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

The new studios boast 18 sound stages as well as workshops and production offices

A story about the UK's newest film and TV studios opening in Shinfield was among our most read stories this week in Berkshire.

A variety of local issues were featured on the BBC News website, BBC Radio Berkshire and South Today.

We have picked five of them to keep you up to date.

Memorial bench honours club's first black footballer

Andy Alleyne suffered racist abuse during matches in the 1970s

A memorial bench has been installed to honour Reading Football Club's first black player.

Full-back Andy Alleyne - who died of cancer aged 61 in 2012 - made his Royals debut in 1972 at a time when racist abuse from the stands was much more common than it is now.

Holybrook Parish Council commissioned the tribute, which has been placed in Linear Park behind Alleyne's home.

Fat-fighting footballers aiming for Pacific match

XL FC is made up of men trying to lose weight

A football team made up of men trying to lose weight is aiming to travel to a Pacific island to play its new international team.

Former Premier League striker Dave Kitson was recruited to develop a national team in Nauru and help reduce its high obesity levels.

He invited members of XL FC, a new club in Reading helping overweight men to lose weight through playing football, to take on his Nauru team.

Rogue trader jailed after charging £42,000 for fake grass

Gorman tried to charge the 90-year-old £42,000 for laying this patch of artifical lawn

A rogue trader who tried to charge a 90-year-old man £42,000 to lay a small patch of artificial turf has been jailed.

Michael Gorman, 47, carried out work at the victim’s home in Caversham, Reading, and then drastically inflated proposed charges.

The pensioner, who died in late 2023, initially hired him to remove some trees in November 2021 but Gorman returned to grossly overcharge him for other work.

Vintage steam fair sells off the last of its rides

Joby Carter said it was time for new custodians to take over the rides

The owner of a vintage steam fair has been selling off the last of its rides.

Carters, which toured for more than four decades, was known for heritage rides and stalls dating from the 1890s to the 1960s.

The Berkshire-based travelling show, which closed in 2022, had hoped to find a single buyer, but instead has been selling items individually.

UK's newest TV and film studios now fully open

Charlie Barnett was at the launch of The Acolyte, one of the first productions at the new studios

The UK's newest film and TV studios have fully opened.

The site in Shinfield, near Reading, boasts 18 sound stages, including two of the biggest in the country, and has already attracted major feature films and TV series.

Situated alongside the M4 motorway, it is part of a boom in British film and TV production, much of it working to meet the demands of global streaming services.