On the 5th April Matthew Barber, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley and Deputy Leader of the Slough Conservative Group Cllr Rayman Bains met with residents from Upton and Langley to discuss what the police were doing in response to the recent rise in violent burglaries.
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Slough Conservatives today welcomes the news that the government is to introduce plans to protect private renters, so that landlords will no longer be able to evict tenants at short notice without good reason.
Here in Slough over 40% of our housing is in the private rental sector – so we know it is
Slough Labour is putting our town under immense pressure, and that also includes an erosion of our green space against their own planning rules.
Back in 2017, the Labour-led council announced plans to dispose of two green spaces – one in Norway Drive in Wexham, the other in Mercian Way in Cippenham
Whilst door knocking, residents handed me a copy of the leaflet from Labour councillor and council leader James Swindlehurst – and I am afraid that once again it shows how out of touch he and Labour are.
On behalf of residents I feel I must call out the complete failure in his leaflet and in his ma
Given the recent news that Voter ID trials have been ruled lawful by High Court judge following a challenge, we are calling on our Labour-led council to do the decent thing and back the government in their efforts to trial schemes aimed at securing our precious democratic vote.
Slough Labour has be
With the Daily Telegraph publishing details this week showing that Roger Parkin, the interim Chief Executive of Slough Borough Council in 2017, was the highest paid town-hall official in the country with his package of nearly £600,000, it highlights yet again how wasteful Labour have been over the y
I was pleased to hear the news that Slough now has a full time MP after two years of Tan Dhesi “serving” both Gravesend and Slough.
According to his entry in the Parliamentary Register, he was actually only “working” for Slough residents for 3 days per week whilst being paid a full time MP’s salary
Cllr James Swindlehurst, Labour Leader of Slough Borough Council has yet again missed the point, and thinks by belittling our manifesto and budget amendments he somehow justifies Labour's constant failures.
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been out listening to the plight of residents who live around the Cippenham Lane/Bath Road junction in Cippenham.
For years, residents have suffered from issues with parking in their streets, brought on by several different issues that together have made life