Adrian Williams

This week, there are two important decisions in motion; whether Thames Water can increase customer bills to help its finances, and whether it can get a £3billion lifeline before it runs out of cash.

Latest official figures confirm an ongoing trend towards an ageing population in Windsor and Maidenhead – but also suggest stable levels of migration.

In August, local councils heard that they would be given new mandatory housing targets. Since then, RBWM's new target has gone up by 100 more homes a year.

Thames Water has won its bid to secure £3billion of funding hoped to help it swerve nationalisation.

The Government’s planned cash boost for Thames Valley Police is not enough, says the force’s Police and Crime Commissioner – and council tax will likely have to go up to plug the gap.

At the end of a week of big decisions regarding Thames Water it has been granted a big bills hike – but has also faced a £18million fine.

Windsor’s MP has branded RBWM’s 25 per cent hike in council tax as ‘outrageous’– while Maidenhead’s MP has defended it saying it is a chance to ‘fix the mess once and for all.’

Daniel Greenhalgh, aged 43, of Cooper Way, was sentenced to 10 months and three weeks for a series of offences, including thefts from a store in Maidenhead.

People of Cookham expressed their dissatisfaction with the planning panel last night after an unpopular 200-home scheme was approved in a mammoth five-hour meeting.

Emotions ran high during at the first of two crucial debates on highly controversial housing plans for Cookham.