Slough is a compact borough with a lot packed into it: the town centre and the station on the Great Western line, the trading estate to the west, and Chalvey, Cippenham, Langley, Britwell, Manor Park and Upton around them. Heathrow is minutes away and shapes a great deal of local employment.

Slough Daily reports what the borough’s own record shows. Slough Borough Council has been a unitary authority since 1998, so planning, bins, roads, licensing, council tax and schools all sit with the same body, and its finances have been a standing local story since it issued a section 114 notice in 2021. All of that is documented in papers that are published and rarely read. We read them and write down what they say, with a link to the original on every fact.

The essentials

• Local Info: bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
• News: the record, including planning applications across the borough.
• What’s On: what is happening in Slough this week.

If we cannot point you at the document, we do not print the claim.