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Residents gathered to witness the long-awaited reopening of their fully modernised male toilets at the weekend. On Sunday, Pangbourne Parish Council chairman Ian Walker unveiled the facilities which were closed down seven years ago after central government reduced grants to local councils. Local government also does not, by law, have to provide this essential facility. But in 2017, a group of villagers, shocked that West Berkshire Council had closed the facilities, set up Action for Pangbourne Toilets Charitable Trust (APT). And now, after tireless fundraising, APT trustees have raised enough …