Slough & South Bucks Express

3 days ago | sloughexpress.co.uk | Adrian Williams

A Taplow man is taking on the challenge of a lifetime in a 6,200-mile sail across the Americas – despite having never gone on a sailing trip before. Kushal Chandarana is technology consultant who has been working at IBM for about 12 years. He wanted something to shake him up and get out of his comfort zone – and soon. Married with a baby on the way, Kush decided to take on a leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race before he settles into family life.

4 days ago | sloughexpress.co.uk | Anaka Nair

A campaign to tackle graffiti in Langley is offering a £1,000 reward in exchange for information. Slough Borough Council has teamed up with the charity Crimestoppers to encourage people to report persistent graffiti offenders and the locations of graffiti anonymously. The four-week campaign launched on Monday is a concerted effort to remove recent prolific graffiti tags in the area as part of the Safer Langley initiative to tackle crime and disorder.

5 days ago | sloughexpress.co.uk | Anaka Nair

A professional trapeze artist is ‘overwhelmed’ by the support she has received to fund surgery for her serious shoulder injury. Bekki Bridges currently performs with Cirque Arlette Gruss and hopes to be back in the air by Christmas with two working shoulders following a ‘whole host’ of recently diagnosed problems. The Farnham Royal resident requires surgery for two labral tears, a torn tendon, a stress fracture and a left shoulder that dislocates multiple times per day.

1 week ago | sloughexpress.co.uk | Sam Leech

Two men from Langley have been acquitted in the case of an attack in the town which left two people needing hospital treatment. Tavinder Singh, 63, and Gurdave Rehsi, 35, were found not guilty of charges including grievous bodily harm, possession of an offensive weapon in public and wounding with intent at Reading Crown Court. Police had charged the pair, both from Seacourt Road, in connection with a 'serious assault' which took place in their road at about 3.50pm on January 31, 2024.

1 week ago | sloughexpress.co.uk | Sam Leech

A ‘hugely liked and respected’ doctor working at a Maidenhead private hospital died in an accidental fall from one of its windows, an inquest has heard. Ali Maki, 33, who also worked at Wexham Park Hospital, was found dead by a fire-escape exit outside the Berkshire Grove Hospital in Waltham Road on the morning of October 2, 2024. At an inquest in Berkshire Coroner’s Court today (June 17), coroner Heidi Connor recorded Dr Maki’s cause of death as blunt force trauma by accident.