Adrian Williams

Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery after a woman in a car grabbed an older woman's £2,000 necklace right off her neck in Maidenhead.

Over the weekend, breweries gathered at Stripes Bar in York Road football ground to showcase their wares at Maidenhead Craft Beer Festival.

A new free summer festival and football tournament is set to come to Desborough Park in June – and will honour a lifelong member of the Desborough Royals club, Lee Hellings, who died of cancer last year.

Gillian May, principal and CEO of Windsor Forest Colleges Group (including BCA) is moving on to become a senior Government advisor. She will be replaced by Oliver Symons, who has more than two decades of further education experience.

There are concerns Cala Homes does not yet seem able to offer reassurance on flooding risk and highway impacts. Cala says these will be covered in more detail in its future planning application.

Herewards House, in Ray Park Avenue, has been given a ‘Requires improvement’ rating after its most recent inspection.

In the public notices this week, the council has announced new parking zones in Slough, several road closures, and there is a no-waiting order for the duration of the Eton College June Celebrations.

A new daytime clubbing event for over 30s is launching in Maidenhead this June – and dedicated to ‘the biggest 80s, 90s and 00s anthems’.

Council officers say the Hemdean House School housing scheme would damage the area’s character and create parking issues — among 22 other listed reasons to refuse.

Peter Boros has been made an honorary Freeman of the Parish in recognition of his long years of hard work battling to protect the village from the large and controversial Thames Farm housing development.