FOR too long, our town has been the butt of nationwide jokes.

From jibes about its bland appearance to that all-too-well-known comment about bombs being dropped from the air, it seems if anyone is after an easy laugh, this is the place to drag down.

Well this week, we say - no more!

If you start to repeat something long enough you become what you hear.

But we know better than this. There are so many organisations here in the Slough community who are trying their hardest to improve the fortunes that Slough has to offer.

And they deserve our utmost thanks for persevering in the face of constant criticism.

Read the full story in this week's Slough Observer, out today.

Also in this week's paper:

  • Wexham Park Hospital bans visitors over covid
  • Man in his thirties dies in London Road car crash
  • Construction work begins on former council's office
  • HOME Slough's commission call out for upcoming project, Love Slough
  • Who is Slough's missing chief exec and what does she do?
  • AND runner collects shocking amount of waste

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