Here are five of the biggest stories published this week on the Slough Observer.

Jail time for woman caught stealing vacuum and pans from The Range

A Slough woman with a ‘flagrant disregard for people and their property’ has been jailed after stealing pans from The Range.

Samantha O’Grady, of Stoke Poges Lane, stole a vacuum and a set of pans belonging to the budget homeware store in Slough worth £119.98 on July 7, 2021.

She also assaulted a man in the town on the same date.

 

Slough cafe set to open in the coming weeks

A new café is set to open in the coming weeks at a major office block near Slough town centre.

Property investment advisory company AshbyCapital and U+I, which is a regeneration developer, have announced Lucy’s Kitchen will open on the ground floor of the Future Works.

The Future Works is the first phase of a £200 million investment in Slough and provides 100,000 sq ft office space. In total, the three-phase regeneration project will create 360,000 sq ft of new office accommodation.

Plans for flats above abandoned Slough pub turned down

Plans to build new flats on top of an abandoned pub in Slough town centre have been rejected by Slough Borough Council.

Developers had outlined plans to build an additional three-storeys on top of the closed down Pied House pub.

This space would have been used to construct a total of eight new flats.

Of these new flats, developers had planned to four one-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom apartments.

McDonald's Slough: man used stolen bank card to buy feast

A Slough man used a stolen bank card to buy £44 worth of food at McDonald’s, a court has heard.

Michael Ruan, of Newport Road, Slough, admitted to two counts of fraud by false representation at Reading Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.

This comes after the 42-year-old used a stolen bank card to purchase £44.17 worth of food from McDonald’s in Slough on August 29, 2020.

Suspended sentence for Slough man who attacked partner after gigolo fled

A man gave his partner a black eye after interrupting her bedroom antics with a gigolo dubbed ‘The Knight Rider’.

Darren Chadband, 51, of George Green, Wexham, was handed a nine month suspended sentence by Recorder John Hardy QC yesterday after he pleaded guilty part-way through his trial to causing actual bodily harm.

Discharging the jury at Oxford Crown Court, Recorder Hardy said: “It was a case that had it gone on would have astonished you – astonished most of you, perhaps not all – with some of the most extraordinary details of human relationships that I have ever come across.”