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CRIME
MAIDENHEAD CENTRAL:
maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
14/7  Sunday  10 a.m.  Summerleaze Road.  Football Club entered and metal lock up broken into - sit on tractor mower stolen.
15/7 - 16/7  Monday 11 p.m. / Tuesday 6 a.m.  Prince Andrew Close.  Black BMW X5 index YT ** UOJ stolen from a drive.  The owner still has the keys.
 
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
 
MAIDENHEAD WEST
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
14/7  Sunday 2.10 a.m.  High Street, Cookham.  Shed set on fire adjacent to public toilets.
13/7 Saturday 2.50 p.m. / 3.45 p.m.  Golf Club, Grange Lane, Cookham X 2.  1.  CAR ENTERED BY UNKNOWN MEANS - Valuable golf clubs stolen.  2.  Car driver’s door lock forced - bag and contents stolen.  The bag was recovered nearby discarded.
14/7  Sunday 2 p.m. / 5.30 p.m.  Jubilee Road, Littlewick Green.  Car passenger window smashed - glovebox searched - nothing stolen.
14/7  Sunday 6 p.m. / 6.30 p.m.  Bath Road, Littlewick Green.  Van was left open while the owner was working.  He heard a car making off.  Later he went to the van and found a DeWalt impact gun and a yellow battery stolen.
 
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
15/7  Monday 7 p.m. / 7.40 p.m.  Lee Lane.  CAR ENTERED BY UNKNOWN MEANS - Vape stick, 3 iPhone chargers and a USB charger, stolen from the centre console.
 
MAIDENHEAD SOUTH
maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
16/7  Tuesday  3.30 a.m. / 9 a.m..  Greenfields  Shed break.  Door forced.  We are awaiting a list of what was stolen.
12/7 - 14/7  Friday 9 a.m. / Sunday 5 p.m.  Boyn Valley Road.  Car badly keyed.
13/7 - 14/7  Saturday 10.30 p.m. / Sunday 10 a.m.  Springfield Park.  Van break and tools stolen.
13/7 - 15/7  Saturday midnight / Monday 9.20 p.m.  Wentworth Crescent.  CAR ENTERED BY UNKNOWN MEANS - Glovebox searched and Sat Nav stolen from under the passenger seat.
15/7  Monday 6.25 p.m.  The Street, Shurlock Row.  Van stolen.  Keys left in the ignition.
 
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
15/7  Monday 8 p.m. / 8.40 p.m.  Braywick Road, Service Road.  Car passenger window smashed - Apple MacBook stolen.

Does anyone recognise this dog? Found by the river by Cookham bridge. Collar, but no tag.

The closing date for the Wild About Gardens Awards is Wednesday 31st July.

If you have already entered your garden - well done.  If not please support our wildlife by adding simple features to your garden - only four are needed for an Award.  You can enter through our website: www.wildcookham.org.uk or collect an  entry form from The Stationery Depot, 23 Station Road, Cookham Rise.

[Could you volunteer a little time and expertise?]

From WildCookham

Could you volunteer a little time and expertise?

WildCookham now has a website but we need some help with it.  There is still a limited amount of initial setup work required to input the basic information we want it to contain.  But the main need for help will be in managing it in the future.  We don't see this as a major task and we hope that there is someone who's interested in our aims and work who can spare a little time each month.

The website uses the Wix platform which is a fairly intuitive easy to use system.

If you are interested and would like to have a chat about it please contact us at wildcookham@gmail.com or phone Mike Copland on 07739 337105.

Yes, I remarked on this to Mrs Birdman only this morning. About 4:30 I think the first one I heard? One of the links which discusses this is at https://afo.heathrowconsultation.com/consultation-topics/night-flights-early-morning-arrivals/

Planes seem to be flying over Cookham before 5am in the morning. What will it be like with a third runway?

In July we start to reap the benefit of all that effort earlier in the year. There are a few things still to do but we can lie back and enjoy our garden and bring out the loungers and the Pimms.

Dead head bedding plants and roses, this will to encourage further flowering. Also remove any fallen rose petals to prevent fungal disease forming

Hanging baskets and containers can dry out quickly, particular in the current weather. They may even need topping up as much as twice a day. Also feed regularly to promote flowering.

Faded flower-spikes on lupins, campanula, delphinium, etc. can be cut down to just above a new shoot or leaf. Apply liquid feed to each plant to encourage fresh growth.

Keep onions well-watered so as not to affect the size of the crop. Your onion hoe needs to be busy this month keeping down the weeds.

Remove side shoots on cordon tomatoes and feed regularly with a high potash liquid tomato fertiliser.

Houseplants enjoy spending the summer outside, so find a sheltered spot for them and give them a holiday.

Prune established plum and apricot trees.

Keep picking sweet peas for enjoying as cut flowers, you can do this daily and they will carry on flowering. Feed the plants every 12 days

Prune shrubs that flowered in early summer.

Your garden birds will enjoy a dish of fresh water to both drink from and bathe in – and you’ll get the pleasure of watching them. You can even take some photos for the Garden Awards.

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FIRST:  A thank you to Don & Judy Stimson, for their invitation to go and talk to their Macular Society group in Maidenhead.  They were a brilliant audience and had some really good questions, as we went through Crime prevention re Burglary, Car crime , Scams & Frauds.  If anyone suffers from macular degeneration and would like to join Don’s group, please make contact with him at:
 
donandjudy@donstimson.plus.com
 
 
CRIME
MAIDENHEAD CENTRAL:
maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
17/6 – 5/7  Boarded up house, Bath Road.  Offenders may have entered via an upstairs window or forced rear kitchen door..  Search carried out.  Not known if anything stolen.
6/7  Saturday 4.50 p.m. / 6 p.m.  King Street.  Bike locked to railings stolen.  A black & blue, Carrera Axel – WITH FRAME NUMBER.
7/7  Sunday 3 p.m. / 7 p.m.  High Street.  Locked up bike stolen from a bike rack.  A silver, Carrera Crossfire, man’s, hybrid bike
 
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
 
MAIDENHEAD WEST
maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
4/7 – 5/7  Thursday 6 p.m. / Friday 9 a.m.  Cricket Club, Waltham Road, Walthams.  Attempted burglary.  Offenders have cur the chain to gain access and have tried to force storage areas with gardening equipment doors.  The alarm sounded and they immediately made off.  No entry gained and nothing stolen.
 
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
6/7  Saturday 7.40 p.m.  Nightingale lane.  Garage break.  Wine stolen from fridge in garage.
6/7  Saturday noon / 10.50 p.m.  Wavell Road.  Small hole found in a house window.
7/7  Sunday midnight / 8 a.m.  The Chase.  Two cars ENTERED BY UNKNOWN MEANS and searched – minor items taken.
7/7  Sunday 0.50 a.m. / 1 a.m.  Cannon Court Road.  CCTV shows a man walking onto the property and opening the boot to a 4 X 4.  Rucksack & contents stolen.
 
MAIDENHEAD SOUTH
maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
6/7 – 7/7  Saturday 7 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m.  Ludlow Road.  Shed break – bike stolen.  A
 
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
6/7  Saturday 10 a.m. / 10 .45 a.m.  Nature Reserve, Hibbert Road.  Tree possible set alight deliberately.
6/7 – 8/7  Saturday 1 a.m. / Monday  8 a.m.  Coningsby Lane, Fifield.  Four water troughs stolen from a filed.
 

FIRST: We are trying to map, where all the NHW signs are across the Borough, so that we can see gaps.  The Alert system has a piece of software that can do this !  Colin Meads our NHW MSA - Multi Scheme Administrator - for Windsor & Ascot, is doing this and would like your help.  Can you email him please and let him know, where all your NHW signs are.  Just send him the name of the road and an approximate postcode, or mark the signs on a map and scan it to him
 
Pc180f@gmail.com
 
The Alert system, also has a ‘scheme mapping’ facility, so that we can map the extent of all schemes in RBWM and we are encouraging all our members, to go onto https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/ to do this.  Apparently it is a very simple process.  Again, this will show us where the gaps are, so that we can work on covering the whole Borough.
 
John Diack our MSA for the whole Borough, is more than willing to assist anyone with this process.   Can you either try to do this yourself, or email John or Colin for assistance !
 
johndiack@hotmail.com
 
This happened in Eton & Wraysbury, but contains useful advice:
 
ETON & ETON WICK:
2/7  Tuesday 9.05 p.m.  Eton.  The owner was at home, when she heard a noise downstairs.  A neighbour then called at the house to say he had just seen 2 men Two offenders are seen on CCTV climbing over a garden fence and walking into the house via a back door which was open.  They appear to have picked up a handbag from the kitchen and exited via the front door.  One of the bank cards was then used.  This is what our Summer Burglary Campaign is all about –ventilation during the hot weather.  If you are doing any gardening, I am sorry, but you must lock any side / back doors every time you go in and out.  It is a pain, but we get opportunist offenders out there who know we do this.  They walk down side accesses and try door handles – particularly if they hear the sound of mowers / hedge trimmers in a rear garden.  They simply then walk in and look for anything left around – usually women’s handbags / keys / cash on countertops in kitchens.  If you walk back in, they are already prepared.  You will say – ‘What are you doing in my kitchen’ !  Their prepared response – ‘I am looking for Jack / John / Mike’ – whatever.  You will be confused – ‘Who’ !  They respond – ‘Doesn’t Jack / John / Mike’ – whatever – live here’ ?  You again respond – ‘Who’ !!!  They are by then on their way to the door – with your handbag / keys / cash – ‘Sorry, wrong house’ !
 
You stand there for a few minutes, totally confused, by what has just happened.  Then you gradually come to and start to look around and notice items missing.  That is when the truth kicks in and you feel such a fool – it was obvious, you have just caught a burglar !
 
Much, much worse, if your children are in the house !!  The real consequences of what could have happened, dawn.  It is never worth the inconvenience of a few seconds to lock and unlock that door several times.  It is the same for windows, during this hot spell.  You can only have windows open, if you are in that room !  If you are at the back in your kitchen, you cannot leave front windows open.  Buy a fan !
We have had cases of people in bungalows leaving ground floor windows of children’s bedrooms open at night. !  DON’T DO IT !
 
1/7  Monday 3 a.m.  Wraysbury.  CCTV has captured a man walking on the drive and trying the passenger side door.  They then walked around the car to the driver’s door.  They crouch down, then open the door.  Car searched – Sat Nav and a bottle of Joop aftershave, and loose change.  He then made off trying to climb over a neighbour’s wall, then decided against it, climbs down and walks off.  The advice for everyone – please 1.  lock your car.  2.  Leave nothing on display or inside visible at night with a torch.  3.  Get a doorbell video camera to protect the property– the footage is brilliant and goes directly to you mobile phone.
 
This happened in Datchet – it may give you a little giggle !
 
3/7  Wednesday 11.25 a.m.  Datchet.  House being renovated – An unusual case.  The owner visited the property and could see someone had broken in, so called the police.  The police attended immediately and searched the house ……… finding the burglar fast asleep on a bed upstairs !!!  A man was arrested upon suspicion of burglary dwelling.
 
CRIME
MAIDENHEAD CENTRAL:
maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
 
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
3/7  Wednesday 6.30 p.m. / 9.30 p.m.  Sheephouse Road.  At least 7 cars in the road keyed.
3/7  Wednesday 10 a.m. / noon.  House, Ray Park Road.  3 CCTV cameras have been stolen from the building.  The offenders left 2 behind.
 
MAIDENHEAD WEST
maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
4/7  Thursday 5.45 p.m. / 8.15 p.m.  Camp Car Park, Quarrywood Road.  Car front windows smashed – two bags and contents stolen.  Including, an RAF wristwatch, clothing, red rucksack and Apple iPod Nano
 
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
MAIDENHEAD SOUTH
maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
2/7 – 3/7  Tuesday 10.30 a.m. / Wednesday 12.30 p.m.  Wessex Way.  Car badly keyed.
 
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
4/7  Thursday 1.45 a.m.  Restaurant, Braywick Park Entrance.  Attempted burglary.  The alarm sounded and a white pickup was parked in the car park which left immediately.  No entry gained and nothing stolen.
3/7 – 4/7  Wednesday 11 p.m. / Thursday  Windsor Road.  Car badly damaged with a stone – scratches and dents.
4/7  Thursday 1.45 a.m.  Hotel car Park, manor Lane.  Offenders caught on CCTV looking into cars with a torch.  No thefts reported but a car window was smashed.