A DAREDEVIL Wargrave man has wing walked his way into the record books after standing on the wing of a biplane at 2,000 feet - even though he has a pacemaker. After the hair-raising flight from Baginton Airport in Coventry on Tuesday, Douglas Penn believes he is the first man in the world, fitted with a cardiac pacemaker, to attempt such a daring feat.
Organisers of the four-day Henley Festival of Music and Arts, which came to a sticky end on Saturday night after rain did its best to ruin the event, are counting the cost of the bad weather. They are bracing themselves for a financial loss after having to fork out thousands of extra pounds to enlist casual labour and provide wooden pallets for walkways to protect festival-goers from what became a sea of mud on the riverbank where the event was staged.
Festival season ticket holders, having experienced the conditions of their first night, came well prepared on Thursday evening, all with umbrellas and many wearing Wellington boots and raincoats over their evening dress. How wise they were to do so, for the weather was unkind and the umbrellas went up and down with monotonous regularity.
The A4 Cycle Lane project involves creating a two-way cycle lane between the A4 junctions with the Huntercombe Lane crossroads and Uxbridge Road. The Destination Farnham Road scheme- A355 Farnham Road from its junction with Cumberland Avenue
Maidenhead Golf Club looks to move on from its Shoppenhangers site at the end of the year.(Dec 31st 2025) David Dwyer - chair of Membership and Marketing Committee
Maidenhead High Street (Looking down the road between junction with Queen St and St Ives Rd) People were complaining about the pavements in the town centre, particularly the narrow and undulating pavements
Pictures of Maidenhead MP, Theresa May. To search for a specific photo, please use the reference number printed in the newspaper caption.
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Galleries from Slough and its surrounding villages. To search for a specific photo, please use the reference number printed in the newspaper caption.
Galleries from Marlow and its surrounding villages. To search for a specific photo, please use the reference number printed in the newspaper caption.
Galleries from Windsor and its surrounding villages. To search for a specific photo, please use the reference number printed in the newspaper caption.
Galleries from Maidenhead and its surrounding villages. To search for a specific photo, please use the reference number printed in the newspaper caption.
SERVICES of remembrance will be held in Henley and the surrounding area on Sunday as follows:HENLEYTHERE will be the usual service outside the town hall at 11am, which will be led by Rev Jeremy Tayler, the rector of Henley with Remenham. Richard...
TWO entrepreneurs were forced to give up two pubs after accruing debts of more than £1.5 million. Alex Sergeant and David Holliday ran the Bottle and Glass Inn in Binfield Heath and Hart Street Tavern in Henley as separate companies. They were wound...
