Youth funding cuts get the nod

Cabinet members rubber-stamped contentious plans to cut funding for the youth Connexions service at a meeting last night.

Councillors endorsed the decision made by council finance chiefs at the Maidenhead town hall gathering.

But, they decided to hold further consultation before making a final verdict on how cash will be spent on secondary schools in the borough, and will do so in September.

Impassioned representatives from Newlands Girls' School and Furze Platt Senior School, both in Maidenhead, talked at the meeting of the 'need' for pupils' facilities to be enhanced.

The Royal Borough have had to cut some school projects, after the announcement of the scrapping of the Building School for Future scheme by the new Government.

Members also decided a radical proposal for booze awareness courses as an alternative to fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for people booked for being drunk and disorderly by police, needed 'more work' and asked for a further report to be compiled.