A puck-er parent is hoping to raise thousands to send a Slough-based ice hockey team to Canada. SPICE - Special People on ICE - is an additional needs ice skating group based at Absolutely Ice Arena in Montem Lane. Members, aged up to 18, have a wide range of needs including autism, Down's Syndrome and cerebral palsy.
It may have stood dark and empty for years but the mammoth Taplow Paper Mill is now the leading light in a new nationally-released film. British thriller 'Four', produced by EastEnders actress Nina Wadia and her husband Raiomond Mirza, was filmed almost entirely at the disused and derelict Mill Lane site in February last year.
A police officer was slightly hurt when he attempted to arrest a man at the Queensmere shopping centre in Slough. After the incident, on April 24, a 22-year-old man was taken into custody charged with handling stolen jewellery as well as assaulting the police. He was further arrested for cannabis possession when he arrived in custody.
Christine Small, Slough's new mayor, admits she was a 'wild child of the 60s' whose headmaster forecast that she would 'end up cleaning the streets or walking them'. Mrs Small, a mother-of-three and a grandmother-of-five, feels she has had the last laugh by becoming the borough's 'First Lady.'
Two traders on the Britwell estate have been shocked by council demands for rent rises backdated for eight years and have been asked to repay £9,000 each. After the rises were imposed on other businesses in Wentworth Avenue in 2005, rent chiefs did not check to ensure that everybody was paying up.
























