Natural History Museum's new storage facility
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Natural History Museum's new storage facility
• BBC Radio Berkshire goes behind the scenes to see the new facility being built in Shinfield.
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Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner, Oscar Wilde, was sentenced to two years' hard labour in 1895 and spent part of his punishment walking a treadmill for up to six hours a day.
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