11:42 Mon 17 Dec 2012
Katherine Grainger missed out on the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award last night but said her achievements in 2012 have been a dream come true.
The Team GB rower was one of 12 shortlisted nominees but came 11th after picking up 28,626 of the 1,626,718 votes cast.
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11:48 Thu 13 Dec 2012
Olympic medal winning hockey player Helen Richardson has coached pupils at the Dolphin School in Hurst.
Helen, who won a bronze medal with the GB women's hockey team at London 2012, put pupils through their
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16:22 Tue 04 Dec 2012
A golden chance for people to claim Olympic and Paralympic memorabilia is up for grabs.
The Royal Borough will launch an eBay auction on Thursday with the sale of more than 300 items from the
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13:54 Fri 16 Nov 2012
The overall cost to Slough of the Olympic and Paralympic Games could be 'horrifying'.
A Slough Borough Council scrutiny meeting last night discussed how preparations for the games worked in practice and looked at the potential legacy for the town.
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14:14 Fri 09 Nov 2012
A £150,000 rowing and canoeing centre and an annual road race could bring a lasting Olympic legacy to Slough.
The London 2012 canoeing events at Dorney Lake brought the Games to Slough's doorstep and
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16:05 Mon 05 Nov 2012
Olympic rower Zac Purchase raised £600 for Marlow Rowing Club by auctioning himself off to take part in the club's long distance sculls race on Saturday last week.
The silver medallist was a last minute
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10:25 Thu 25 Oct 2012
Maidenhead's Olympic hockey player, Hannah Macleod's bronze medal from London 2012 went missing last night after a team celebration in London.
The 28-year-old announced the theft on Twitter last night.
She said: "Had my Olympic
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11:24 Mon 22 Oct 2012
The triple gold medal winning equestrian star Sophie Christiansen says she is riding the crest of a wave since her triumph at London 2012.
Sophie, 24, who lives in Boyn Hill Road in Maidenhead said
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11:59 Wed 17 Oct 2012
A golden summer of sporting success was commemorated at Boveney Lock.
A pedestal, which houses the controls to the lock, was transformed by the Environment Agency (EA) with gold paint to mark Team GB's rowing success at Dorney Lake during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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10:31 Fri 28 Sep 2012
Olympic gold medal winning rower Anna Watkins will be honoured with a civic reception at Wokingham Borough Council on Wednesday.
Watkins, 29, won gold in the women's double sculls at London 2012 with team-mate Katherine
12:44 Fri 14 Dec 2012
An Olympic themed mini-bus was launched on Tuesday by Slough Community Transport in order to serve members of the community.
The Mayor of Slough, Cllr Chrissy Small was present to unveil the new gold coloured
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16:43 Tue 11 Dec 2012
A paralympic gold medallist met some 'electric' young swimmers at Windsor's Leisure Centre on Saturday.
Graham Edmunds is a lifelong competitive swimmer who was left disabled after a motorbile accident and won Paralympic gold at
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09:51 Tue 27 Nov 2012
Katherine Grainger is one of the 12 shortlisted nominees for the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
The 37-year-old rower captured the hearts of the nation when she finally won Olympic gold during
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18:02 Fri 09 Nov 2012
A dramatic shot of canoeists powering through the water at Dorney Lake ahead of the Olympic Games has been chosen as the winner of a photography competition.
Former rowing coach Patrick White, of Kingswood Court
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09:53 Tue 06 Nov 2012
Horse-friendly surface materials from an Olympic venue could be used to create a new outdoor arena at Berkshire College of Agriculture (BCA) if plans are given the green light by the council.
A controversial application for the new equine facility, which would be primarily used for teaching, is recommended for approval at a Maidenhead development control panel meeting on Thursday.
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17:01 Thu 25 Oct 2012
Police have arrested a 31-year-old man this afternoon after two bronze medals were stolen last night in London.
The suspect is being held at a west London police station.
Hockey Olympian Hannah Macleod, 28, from
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16:45 Tue 23 Oct 2012
Members of a disability arts group were given the gold seal of approval by Paralympic hero Sophie Christiansen at a celebratory ceremony on Wednesday.
The three-time gold medal winner presented artists from the ArtAble group with cash rewards earned by the sale of their work in the ceremony at their Boyn Grove Community Resource Centre base in Courthouse Road, Maidenhead.
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12:19 Sun 21 Oct 2012
London 2012's legacy for Windsor and Maidenhead is the subject of a report due before the cabinet on Wednesday.
The 45-page document covers the work carried out in the run up to the Olympic and
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09:09 Sun 14 Oct 2012
A civic reception was staged to honour the achievements of Olympians and Paralympians at Wokingham Town Hall on Tuesday.
Caversham-based gold medal winning rower Anna Watkins was guest of honour.
She was joined by members of GB's women's hockey team, Paralympians, torchbearers and Games Makers and other local athletes.
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15:32 Wed 26 Sep 2012
A gold medal-winning Olympian was the guest of honour at Claires Court's senior schools' speech day and prize-giving.
Katherine Grainger MBE received a standing ovation from students at the event at the Magnet Leisure Centre
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17:00 Thu 23 May 2013
Maidenhead United FC boss Johnson Hippolyte has added a midfield enforcer to his squad as he continues to build ahead of the forthcoming Conference South campaign.
Hippolyte has swooped to sign Adrian Clifton from Ryman
10:52 Tue 21 May 2013
England centre Jonathan Joseph believes the J.P. Morgan Premiership Rugby 7s series will be even more competitive next season.
The London Irish centre was named as the competition's player of the season after winning
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09:00 Thu 23 May 2013
Datchet CC were unable to clinch their fist win of the season after losing five wickets in quick succession against Finchampstead.
It was a disappointing result for Datchet after a promising bowling display which saw
12:02 Tue 23 Apr 2013
Marlow Rowing Club has been selected as a host club in British Rowing's new Paralympic development scheme.
The scheme is the para-rowing element of the Elite Talent Development Pathway (ETDP) which takes promising individuals from
17:52 Fri 29 Mar 2013
Hundreds of runners braved a chilly Good Friday morning to take part in the Maidenhead Easter 10 road race today.
This year marked the 60th anniversary of the 10-mile run, which is organised by Maidenhead
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09:00 Fri 26 Apr 2013
Maidenhead Hockey Club's men's 1st team captain Rob Kempton said he and the team were still 'buzzing' after clinching the title on the last day of the season.
Having secured promotion back to Regional MBBO
