Berkshire Live9.5.8 - App Store

Get the very latest news from Reading & Berkshire, business and sport 24/7. Keep up to date with your football matches & rugby games, and find out what's on in your area.

Completely customisable, the Berkshire Live App allows you to tailor what news you consume and when. You can even follow your favourite Berkshire teams, so that you can keep up to date with what you care about - whether that be Reading FC, Reading RFC or Bracknell RFC.

The Berkshire Live app is the best way to follow breaking news from Reading & Berkshire, including live blogs, live video and traffic & travel.

Keep up-to-date with the latest in:

. Top local news stories from Reading, Bracknell and Wokingham
. Rugby, football and Sport news
. Reading FC, Reading RFC and Bracknell RFC coverage
. Traffic & travel news
. Berkshire event listings and What's On guides
. Berkshire restaurant guides and reviews

The App also features:

. Force Touch allowing you to peak and pop into an article.
. Native iPad support for a better tablet experience
. The ability to follow topics that matter to you
. Follow your favourite authors like you do any topic
. Resize the article text to help with your reading experience
. The ability to read an article even when you are offline
. Split screen view is supported on all compatible iPads
. Bookmark and article for reading later, and have them synced to your other iOS devices.

Version History This release we have been improving a lot of elements behind the scenes, these include bug fixes and updates to exiting features to make sure they continue to run smoothly. We also improved:
- Voice Over Mode for our accessibility users in a number of areas, so do let us know how it’s working for you, we always appreciate the feedback.
- We also improved some other UI elements around the app to fix a few contrast and accessibility issues we were seeing.
Did you ever notice that trying to write a long message in commenting, meant you couldn’t see all your text? Well, that’s also been fixed too.
We are working hard on some big updates, so keep an eye out on future releases for more. 9.5.8 10/20/2025 This release is mostly maintenance to make sure the app continues to run smoothly, we have also included the following:
• A fix for a rare issue that caused a very small percentage of users to be unable to log in
• Some general clean up and changes for our iOS26 users to make sure the app continues to work as expected
We will have more to share in future releases, so do stay tuned. 9.5.7 09/16/2025 In this shiny new release we have, as always, been preparing for future changes and features, but also..
- We have fixed the comment sorting, so you can display the comments in the way you prefer.
- We also fixed the area where your write your comment, this text area will now expand to accommodate the length of your comment making it easier for you to see what you have written.
- We also improved colour contrast in a number of text areas to help our accessible users. 9.5.6 08/06/2025 We have been working through the heat to bring you some meaningful changes and fixes, here are the highlights

General Bug Fixes and UI improvements
Commenting has received some love with new colour styling and more
Fixed a bug where the ‘Breaking’ Label was being show for too long on an article.
Some small Accessibility improvements, but there are a lot more impactful changes coming later in the year. 9.5.5 07/07/2025 What’s New:
We’ve been enhancing the app and are excited to introduce a new Notification Centre feature from where you can see all of your received notifications in one place, manage notification settings, as well as choose particular topics that you want to receive notifications for.

Resolved issues:
• Performance and UI improvements
• Resolved an issue where the app would crash unexpectedly when opened from a rare type of push notification 9.5.4 06/09/2025 This is a quick update to fix some little gremlins that have snuck into the code, to keep the app running in tip top fashion. We’ll be back with more soon. 9.5.1 04/29/2025 Welcome to a new update that contains some bug fixes, improves overall app stability, and brings some nice performance improvements. In this one we've given you the choice to subscribe to different topics with your push notifications and tidied up the home feeds. 9.5.0 04/14/2025 We have mostly been laying the foundations for some new features in this release, however, some of those changes improve the UI in places right now, others will be more transformative when we launch those new features, so stay tuned for a bigger update in future. Of course we also included some bug fixes here too, to keep the app running tip top. 9.4.4 03/10/2025 Today we have another simply maintenance and bug fix update. We have some new features coming really soon, and this release is laying the ground work for those things. We will be back with a much more fun update for you all very soon. 9.4.2 02/19/2025 Our first release of the year is simply a maintenance and bug fix update. However the good news is, we are already getting stuck into this years news tasks and features. So keep an eye out on future updates, we do have a some very cool things for you on our road map. Happy New Year! 9.4.1 01/15/2025 Today’s update is mostly maintenance, but we do have some nice things too. First, we have a UX update for Commenting, we now display in the comments if the commenting conversation is closed, anyone trying to post a comment after it’s closed would not see their post and no feedback as to why. Secondly we have some UI updates sprinkled around the app, these include new icons and better uses of colour. We’ll be back with more in the future release. 9.4.0 12/03/2024 We all know how much we like reading the news, but what if you get distracted and you don’t finish an article, and you forgot to save it? Well now that “Doh!” moment is a thing of the past, as today we are introducing ‘Reading History’. Inside the settings tab you will find the My Reading History section and there you will see every article you have read, or begun to read, all nicely organised by days and weeks. This information is also only stored on your device and is never sent to the cloud. We hope this little feature helps you continue to enjoy the news that little bit more. 9.3.9 11/13/2024 We all know how much we like reading the news, but what if you get distracted and you don’t finish an article, and you forgot to save it? Well now that “Doh!” moment is a thing of the past, as today we are introducing ‘Reading History’. Inside the settings tab you will find the My Reading History section and there you will see every article you have read, or begun to read, all nicely organised by days and weeks. This information is also only stored on your device and is never sent to the cloud. We hope this little feature helps you continue to enjoy the news that little bit more. 9.3.8 11/06/2024 The update lottery is back with a new release, so what do we have for you this time? This release is… A maintenance release woohoo! We can hear the groans from here, and we are sorry but these things do need to be done. We are laying new foundations that will mean our development pipeline can move faster, which means better and more feature based releases for you. Join us again soon as we spin the lottery app release update wheel again! 9.3.7 10/10/2024 The update lottery is back with a new release, so what do we have for you this time? This release is… A maintenance release woohoo! We can hear the groans from here, and we are sorry but these things do need to be done. We are laying new foundations that will mean our development pipeline can move faster, which means better and more feature based releases for you. Join us again soon as we spin the lottery app release update wheel again! 9.3.6 10/07/2024 Yup, bug fix release. Pretty much all she wrote on this one, developers fiddled again and the app works a bit better. We promise there is better stuff coming, so do stay tuned for our release update lottery, Feature Release or Bug Fix? Who knows… 9.3.4 09/10/2024 Another bug release and all the fixes are too small for the eye, or too incredibly boring to explain in human speech. Either way, work was carried out, developers fiddled and the app works a bit better. 9.3.3 08/13/2024 A bit of a maintenance release, this one. Mostly stuff in the background that needs to be kept updated, all rather dull. Of course, any release wouldn’t be complete without the usual round of improvements and bug fixes, and we have included a bunch in here too. We have more in the pipeline, so stay tuned for a future update. 9.3.2 07/16/2024 Welcome to a new update that contains some bug fixes, improves overall app stability and performance. Not much else to say really, but if you do find you are still having performance or stability issues, please use the In App feedback option to let us know what is going on. 9.3.1 06/27/2024 Welcome to a new update that contains some bug fixes, improves overall app stability and performance. Not much else to say really, but if you do find you are still having performance or stability issues, please use the In App feedback option to let us know what is going on. 9.3.0 06/17/2024 We won’t beat around the bush, this release is all maintenance. Okay, okay, we know we said some cool new stuff was on the way, but we had some rather annoying intermittent bugs that have been affecting a small percentage of our users. Many of those issues should be improved in this release, however we are still working hard on a fix for some performance issues that a certain set of users are experiencing, which we hope to resolve in a future update. Please do let us know if you are still having any problems with instability or performance using the “Feedback” option in the app.
The Reach PLC Apps Team 9.2.6 05/21/2024 This shiny new update contains some bug fixes, improves overall app stability, and your experience while using the app. Yes we know, boring background stuff, but there is more in the pipeline and we continue to work hard on those, so check back for a future update to see what we have in store. 9.2.5 04/23/2024 We have of course been tinkering in the background to make sure our app is functioning in tip top form, but this update is all about bringing back a highly requested feature. Yes, swiping articles is back! You can now open an article, swipe left and read the next article, or swipe again and again, there is no end to the swiping fun one can have, oh… and we even track your position in the home feed, so when you are done reading, we’ll put you right back in the feed at the last article you looked at, Nice! Stay tuned, as we have much more in the pipeline. 9.2.4 03/26/2024 This update is mostly a bug fix release, just stuff we have tinkered with, and things we have adjusted, all of which are too boring to talk about, but, rest assured they will make your experience marginally better... every little helps as they say. Although, if you do love an account creation process, then we have done some UI/UX work to make those much slicker and those things you can see. 9.2.3 03/04/2024 This update is mostly a bug fix release, just stuff we have tinkered with, and things we have adjusted, all of which are too boring to talk about, but, rest assured they will make your experience marginally better... every little helps as they say. However, if you love to comment, we have done some UI work to tidy things up and those things you can see. 9.2.2 01/22/2024