A theatre performance that was due to take place in a historic former prison that once held Oscar Wilde has been moved to a ...

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman Julian Knight said the building had to remain publicly accessible in the plans ... car park of the prison which is built on the site of Reading ...

The businessman who bought Reading Gaol has said he hopes ... Channing Bi speaks to ITV News Meridian about his plans for the future of the gaol The prison has been in the centre of town for ...

When he was transferred from a prison in London to Reading Gaol, it was supposed to be an ... it might be under a car park, as happened with Richard III in Leicester. Reading Abbey was largely ...

The historic prison where writer Oscar Wilde was held for 'gross indecency' is finally set to be sold, according to campaigners. Reading Gaol - which closed in 2013 - was where Wilde was ...

The prison was immortalised by Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written during his two ... Reading West MP Alok Sharma, who also supports the plan, organised a meeting between ...

The Ziran Education Foundation will now discuss plans with ... wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." The MoJ says proceeds from the sale will now be reinvested in the wider prison estate to help ...

Professor Roberta Gilchrist, University of Reading archaeologist, said: "Given what we know of the plan of Reading Abbey, the area of the prison coincides ... Save Reading Gaol campaign group.

The jail famously housed Wilde between 1895 and 1897 and was immortalised by his poem Ballad of Reading Gaol during his ... artwork is related to plans to develop the prison The prison has been ...

On his release, he moved to France where he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in 1898. The long poem described prison life. Wilde died destitute in Paris soon afterwards ...