Three charged with burglary
Borough: Health boss reports ‘good levels of uptake’
SLOUGH: Three men have been charged with burglary at three incidents which took place in Slough on February 6.
Martin Stoakes, 42, of Bramston Road, Brent; John Cawley, 59, of no fixed abode; and Patrick Cawley, 62, of Bridge Road, Brent, were charged with three counts each of burglary following a police investigation.
All have been remanded in custody to appear at Reading Crown Court on Monday 8 March.
The Express, February 19, 2021 ‘Many thousands of people’ have been vaccinated from COVID in the Royal Borough, with ‘very tiny’ levels of wastage, a meeting heard this week.
At a council COVID outbreak and engagement board on Monday, members heard from NHS representative Caroline Farrar, a managing director for the Frimley Collaborative.
This organisation consists of three clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), including East Berkshire.
Ms Farrar gave councillors and the public an update on the vaccination programme across the borough, with sites available for people to receive the jab at three locations in the area: Maidenhead Town Hall, Windsor Racecourse, and Bracknell’s Waitrose, which covers
Ascot residents.
“We have made the offer of a vaccine to all people in cohorts one to four, through those three sites,” Ms Farrar said, adding she has seen ‘good levels of uptake’ for the life-saving injection.
“We do have many thousands of people that have already been vaccinated in the Royal Borough.”
Elsewhere, people in the borough have been vaccinated at the nearby mass Salt
Hill Centre in Slough, as well as Marlow Pharmacy.
Ms Farrar reiterated the importance of people, in the first four cohorts only, to make contact with the NHS if they have not received their first jab yet.
This week, the Government moved on to the next set of people eligible for the vaccine, which includes those aged 65-69 and the clinically vulnerable people over 16.
A milestone was reached on Monday after 15million people were given a first jab, the vast majority of which were within cohorts one to four.
Ms Farrar said that GPs are still waiting for more Government guidance related to cohort six, the clinically vulnerable, but added: “We are expecting that this week.”
Councillor Stuart Carroll (Con, Boyn Hill), the council’s lead member for health, asked whether there had been any wastage of the vaccine.
Ms Farrar said: “Our actual levels of wastage are really very tiny and we are not throwing vaccine away locally in the Frimley system.”
National media reports have also caused concern that some vaccines may not be suitable for the older population, but Ms Farrar brushed away these claims.
“All the available vaccines have to be approved – everybody should be reassured whatever vaccine they get, it will be highly effective and protect them from COVID.”
Later in the meeting,
Cllr Carroll said it was ‘too early’ to be able to see the vaccine impacting on the number of COVID infections, after Cllr Samantha Rayner (Con, Eton and Castle) had enquired about this.
The meeting did hear, however, that data was beginning to exhibit a ‘general decrease’ in the rate of infection.
“It may be, at this point, contributing to some extent, but it is just too early to say,” Cllr Carroll said.
‘We’ve offered a vaccine to cohorts one to four’
AFTER BECOMING the world’s first country to approve a vaccine for use, the UK Government has bought jabs on behalf of all the UK, distributing them around England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The government has invested over £300 million in securing and scaling up the UK’s manufacturing capabilities to be able to respond to this pandemic.
We already have several authorised vaccines combating COVID-19 ... more than any other country in the world.
The priority is to save as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible, while also reducing
A multi-million pound vaccine programme is being rolled out at a fast rate across the UK with over ten million people having already been immunised. We focus on how jabs are being distributed and the many people working together to ensure everyone receives the vital vaccine.
hospitalisations that create pressure on the NHS. The UK is vaccinating more than double the rate per person per day than any other country in Europe.
This success has been made possible by many people from the scientists developing the vaccine and forces personnel setting up vaccination centres to delivery drivers and remote
doctors vaccinating the elderly within their community, all working together across the whole nation. Vaccination is the best way to protect people from coronavirus and is the best route back to normality.
The vital vaccine works by teaching your immune system how to defend itself against viral attack. 7
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Road closures
Slough Borough Council has given notice that it plans to carry out works at the Slough Trading Estate on Sunday, March 7.
The local authority has made an order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to close Edinburgh Avenue from its junction with Stirling Road to 135A Edinburgh Avenue.
Roadworks will start at
8am and are expected to be completed by 6pm that day.
If bad weather prevents or any other unforeseen events prevent the workers from completing the job then the work will be finished the following Sunday.
An alternative route will be in place during the roadworks.
The council is also planning on carrying out roadworks in Malton Avenue on the same weekend.
An order has been proposed to stop vehicles using the road between the junction of Malton Avenue and Yarmouth Road to 468 Malton Avenue.
The order will be in place from 00.01 on Saturday,
March 6 with all works expected to be completed by Monday, March 15.
An alternative route will be available during this time.