Nick Clark

United Kingdom

Local Democracy Reporter at Slough Observer

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Articles

'I'm going now' unlicensed driver taunted police before crashing friend's car

4 days ago | examiner.com.au | Nick Clark

Launceston Magistrates Court. A former Moltema man panicked and crashed his friend's car when he drove away from a police intercept, the Launceston Magistrates Court heard.
Twenty-year-old deal could add almost £1 million to Slough's special needs crisis

5 days ago | sloughobserver.co.uk | Nick Clark

Arbour Vale School was built under a PFI deal that could now add £900,000 a year to Slough's special needs budget (Image: OHCAT) Almost £1million a year in costs could be added to Slough’s already-stretched special educational needs budget to pay for a twenty-year old deal to build new schools.
Drug trafficking operation worth $582k was to pay for addiction

5 days ago | examiner.com.au | Nick Clark

A Launceston woman used false names when she flew across Bass Strait with drugs worth $582,000 to sell, the Supreme Court in Launceston heard.
Rape was a crime too serious to be punished by home detention order, Judge

6 days ago | examiner.com.au | Nick Clark

Supreme Court in Launceston. A judge rejected a 67-year-old man's plea for a home detention order, saying that a term of imprisonment would be required, the Supreme Court in Launceston heard.
Slough council to spend £700,000 on Bath Road speed cameras

6 days ago | sloughobserver.co.uk | Nick Clark

A stretch of the A4 Bath Road where the speed limit was cut from 40 miles per hour (Image: Google) New speed cameras could be installed along the A4 Bath Road in Slough to enforce reduced speed limits brought in last year. A speed limit of 30 miles per hour along the entire road, running east-west through Slough, was introduced in July last year – down from 40 miles per hour on some stretches.
Fate of 225 home-plan set to be finally decided after worries for trees

6 days ago | sloughobserver.co.uk | Nick Clark

2 1/1 The fate of plans to build 225 homes south of Maidenhead could finally be settled by councillors next week. Property developer Taylor Wimpey wants planning permission for 225 homes just to the north of the A404, south of Maidenhead – the second phase of a larger development along Kimber’s Lane. Councillors at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead were supposed to decide whether to grant the scheme planning approval last month.
Slough headteachers warned of shortage of spaces and money

6 days ago | sloughobserver.co.uk | Nick Clark

2 1/1 Slough schools face a shortage of places and funding for children with special educational needs as the number needing support increases, head teachers have been warned. Demand for education health and care plans (EHCPs) – which set out what a council needs to do to meet a child’s special educational needs – is increasing, while a backlog in overdue assessments is close to being cleared by Slough Borough Council.
Boy in Slough left without school place for almost two years

1 week ago | sloughobserver.co.uk | Nick Clark

Slough council has struggled to find a SEND school place for Leighton Ludlow (Image: Louise Ludlow) A boy with special educational needs has spent almost two years out of school because Slough Borough Council hasn’t been able to find him a place. Leighton Ludlow, 12, has autism and was supposed to start Year 7 in September 2023 – but, now he’s supposed to be in year 8, he’s still without a school.
Key witness admits lies as credibility attacked in searching cross examination

1 week ago | examiner.com.au | Nick Clark

Defence counsel in sexual abuse case Luke Officer (left) and David Edwardson KC leaving the Supreme Court in Launceston. Picture Nick ClarkA woman who gave evidence that she saw her daughter in bed with a then 47-year-old man admitted during a vigorous cross-examination that she had lied about many matters in her life.
Tears as mum relates how she caught her daughter in bed with 47-year-old man

1 week ago | examiner.com.au | Nick Clark

The mother of a teenager allegedly sexually abused by a then 47-year-old man wept as she recalled the morning she surprised them in bed together.