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Check the Maidenhead Advertiser web site for regular updates of news from the Maidenhead area.
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This page links to pages of town news - latest news first. Maidenhead United FA Cup Report - 21 November 2006 Maidenhead Heritage Centre appeal - trying to purchase a permanent home Car crashes into Thames near Boulter's Lock - see photos - 15 February 2005 Jubilee River prevents major flooding in Maidenhead, 5 January 2003 Foot and mouth disease precautions - Ockwells park closes, 9 March 2001 Snow falls in Maidenhead, 28 December 2000 December 2000 flooding, and more photos - 16 December 2000 Flood warning, and extra photos - 7 November 2000 Cinema opens, 15 September 2000 Fuel shortage, 12 September 2000 Travellers on parkland, 25 August 2000 Shoppenhangers Manor fire, 19 June 2000	Flooding in Maidenhead

Office plan rejected, 12 June 2000
Bye bye chicanes, 8 June 2000
Grenfell progress, March 2000
Grenfell site progress - foundation work starts, June 1999
Cinema complex - work begins, March 1999
Cinema comlex approved, King Street to be pedestrianised, November 1998
Pallet store arson attack, May 1998

You may also be interested in looking at the Maidenhead Advertiser web site. The paper version is published every Thursday. Established in 1869, it includes "From Our Files" - a look back at the stories from previous year's editions. One story from May 1878 caught our eye:

Two ne'er-do-wells, charged by borough magistrates with "tickling pretty nursemaids under the chin" came in for a lambasting from Looker-On [a form of editorial]. "Girls shrink from rude touches and course salutes as plants do from frost," he wrote. "I am afraid there is only one way of making our roads safe and pleasant to the petite femmes, and that is by placing a constable somewhere at hand with a stout bamboo in his grip. Roughs, like weeds, flourish most in neglected by-ways and obscure corners."

How times change!

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