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.
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.'
A robber has been given a two year jail sentence. Arjun Bance, of Haymill Road, Slough, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Monday. On April 3, a 14-year-old boy and his friend were cycling
A police officer was seriously assaulted in Slough on Tuesday night. At 9.10pm, two officers went to Logicalis Ltd, in Buckingham Avenue, after reports of a burglary in progress. They approached from
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.
Almost a third of violent crime in Slough is the result of domestic abuse. Statistics show 29 percent of 4,154 violent crimes recorded by Thames Valley Police between April 2011 and March 2012 were domestic abuse cases. Police have now joined forces with support agencies and Crimestoppers to launch a campaign - Speak Out Today - to promote awareness and early intervention.
Progress on the £10.5 million Heart of Slough project will be shown to the media today. Executives from Skanska, the council's contractors, will lead a walkabout and discuss the infrastructure
Children and families minister Tim Loughton will pay an official visit to Slough tomorrow to see whether officials in the education department have pulled their socks up after a poor Ofsted report
