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IT WILL soon be decision time for residents; do they want to stick with the status quo, or do they want Slough Borough Council controlled by a…

THE political parties and Independent candidates that are vying for your vote have revealed their plans for Slough if they are elected.

FREE charging points for electric vehicles in a council car park – now fenced off for being wrongly used by residents as energy costs soar –…

A FINANCIALLY-STRUGGLING council could have sorted out the £79m blackhole earlier if it intervened sooner.

ROCKETING car park charges have been defended as still “reasonable and cheap” by the council leader.

A CASH-STRAPPED council has not ruled out an increase in anti-social behaviour as it considers dimming streetlights in a bid to save £25,000.

This six-storey building that cost the people of Slough at least £40million currently sits largely empty, with its entire top floor vacant and cardboard boxes and rubbish filling meeting rooms.

The authority will likely move out of its HQ as a result of its £760m debt, a councillor says.

Labour-led Slough Borough Council bought the large array of indoor plants for its £41million Observatory House headquarters when it moved in 2019. It spent £28,000 on them but they are now "dying" because of a £760m borrowing debt which forced them to terminate a contract for watering them, council leader James Swindlehurst said. Mr Swindlehurst

The authority will likely move out of the building as a result of its £760m debt, a councillor says.