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Slough | |
Unitary authority, Borough | |
Slough Trading Estate |
Shown within Berkshire |
Coordinates: 51°31′N 0°35′W / 51.51°N 0.59°WCoordinates: 51°31′N 0°35′W / 51.51°N 0.59°W | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | South East England |
Ceremonial county | Berkshire |
Status | Unitary authority |
Incorporated | 1 April 1974 |
Admin HQ | Bath Road, Slough |
Government | |
• Type | Unitary authority |
• Body | Slough Borough Council |
• Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Labour) |
• MPs | Fiona MacTaggart |
Area | |
• Total | 12.56 sq mi (32.54 km2) |
Area rank | 306th (of 326) |
Population (2011 est.) | |
• Total | 140,700 |
• Rank | 137th (of 326) |
• Density | 11,000/sq mi (4,300/km2) |
• Ethnicity | 45.7% White 39.7% Asian or British Asian 8.6% Black or Black British 3.4% Mixed Race 2.6% Other[1] |
Time zone | GMT (UTC0) |
• Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
ONS code | 00MD (ONS) E06000039 (GSS) |
OS grid reference | SU978797 |
Website | www.slough.gov.uk |
Slough i/ˈslaʊ/ is a town in Berkshire, England, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of central London. It is bisected by the A4 and the Great Western Main Line. In 2011, the population of Slough was 140,200 and the most ethnically diverse outside London in the United Kingdom[2] with the highest proportion of religious adherents in England.[3] Historically, Slough was mainly in Buckinghamshire with a small part of the borough in Middlesex. Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate, the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe.[4]
The first recorded uses of the name occur as Slo in 1196, Sloo in 1336, and Le Slowe, Slowe or Slow in 1437. It first seems to have applied to a hamlet between Upton to the east and Chalvey to the west, roughly around the "Crown Crossroads" where the road to Windsor (now the A332) met the Great West Road.[5] The Domesday Survey of 1086 refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. During the 13th century, King Henry III had a palace at Cippenham. Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325, while St Mary the Virgin Church[6] in Langley was probably built in the late 11th or early 12th century, though it has been rebuilt and enlarged several times.
From the mid-17th century, stagecoaches began to pass through Slough and Salt Hill, which became locations for the second stage to change horses on the journey out from London. By 1838 and the opening of the Great Western Railway, Upton-cum-Chalvey's parish population had reached 1,502. In 1849, a branch line was completed from Slough station to Windsor and Eton Central railway station, opposite Windsor Castle, for the Queen's convenience.
Slough has 96 listed buildings.[7] There are
- Four Grade I: St Laurence's Church (Upton), St Mary the Virgin Church (Langley),[6] Baylis House and Godolphin Court
- Seven Grade II: St Mary's Church (Upton-cum-Chalvey), Upton Court, the Kederminster and Seymour Almshouses in Langley, St Peter's Church (Chalvey), The Ostrich Inn (Colnbrook), and King John's Palace (Colnbrook)
- Grade II listed structures include four milestones: Beech, Oak and Linden Houses at Upton Hospital, and Slough station
1918 saw a large area of agricultural land to the west of Slough developed as an army motor repair depot, used to store and repair huge numbers of motor vehicles coming back from the battlefields of the First World War in Flanders. In April 1920, the Government sold the site and its contents to the Slough Trading Co. Ltd. Repair of ex-army vehicles continued until 1925, when the Slough Trading Company Act was passed allowing the company (renamed Slough Estates Ltd) to establish an Industrial Estate.[8] Spectacular growth and employment ensued, with Slough attracting workers from many parts of the UK and abroad.
During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 (the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough. Local air raid deaths and deaths at the hospital account for the 23 civilian lives recorded lost in the borough area.[9]
After the War, several further large housing developments arose to take large numbers of people migrating from war-damaged London.
Current developments[edit]
In the 21st century, Slough has seen major redevelopment of the town centre. Old buildings are being replaced with new offices and shopping complexes. Tesco has replaced an existing superstore with a larger Tesco Extra. The Heart of Slough Project is a plan for the large-scale redevelopment of the town centre as a focus and cultural quarter for the creative media, information and communications industries. It will create a mixed-use complex, multi-functional buildings, visual landmarks and a public space in the Thames Valley. Recommendations for the £400 million project have been approved,[10] and planning approval was given by Slough Borough Council's planning committee on 9 July 2009.[11] Work began in 2010 for completion in 2018.[12]
In December 2009, two key components of the project were signed: the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) signed its agreement to provide £11m of funding for infrastructure, and Thames Valley University (TVU) courses which are due to remain in the town have found a new home at The Centre in Farnham Road, Slough.[13] In parallel to the town centre redevelopment plan, SEGRO (owner of the Slough Trading Estate) plans to spend £600 million over the next 20 years on the trading estate. This is intended to create environmentally sustainable buildings, open green spaces, two hotels, a conference centre, cafés, restaurants, and better transport facilities to improve links to Slough town centre and the surrounding residential areas. It is claimed that the plan will create more than 4,100 new jobs and contribute around £100m a year to Slough's economy.[14] If both plans go ahead in their current forms, nearly £1 billion will be spent on redeveloping Slough over the next 20 years.
Herschel Park (known as Upton Park until 1949) is currently being relandscaped in a multi-million pound effort to bring it back to its former Victorian era glory.[15] The park was featured in an episode of the documentary programme Who Do You Think You Are? focusing on the TV presenter Davina McCall.[16]
In 2010, £2 million was set aside to improve disabled access to Slough railway station in preparation for an expected increase in use during the 2012 London Olympics.[17] Preparations were under way for the regeneration of the Britwell suburb of Slough, involving tearing down a dilapidated block of flats and the closing of the public house The Jolly Londoner in Wentworth Avenue and replacing them with new homes, as well as relocating the shopping parade in the street to nearby Kennedy Park.[18] As part of the Heart of Slough project, construction work on a new bus station began in March 2010 following weeks of demolition work to half of the existing bus station and the removal of Compair House near the railway station; it was expected to be completed by January 2011[19][20] and was opened in May 2011, 5 months behind schedule.
Redevelopment on this scale has been strongly criticised by conservation groups. The Twentieth Century Society has stated that "[A] tragically high quantity of good buildings have been demolished in Slough in recent years, including grand Art-Deco-styled factories by the likes of Wallis Gilbert and high-quality post-war offices. More are to come down as the town tries to erase its past and reinvent itself from scratch. Despite famously heckling Slough, John Betjeman's praise for the Town Hall's architecture as 'a striving for unity out of chaos' in 1948 has never been so relevant as today. C20 believes that the redevelopment of the Town Hall would be an act of vandalism to the civic centre and is supporting the Campaign to Save Slough's Heritage in their request for a review of the decision."[21]
Slough is at grid reference SU978797, west of Greater London. Nearby towns are Windsor to the south, Maidenhead to the west, Uxbridge to the northeast and Beaconsfield to the north.
Most of the area that now makes up Slough was anciently part of Buckinghamshire. The town developed by the expansion and amalgamation of villages along the Great West Road. Over the years Slough has expanded greatly, incorporating a number of different villages. Original villages that are now suburbs of Slough include Chalvey, Cippenham, Colnbrook, Langley, Poyle, Upton, and Wexham.
Other areas of the town include Brands Hill, Britwell, Huntercombe, Manor Park, Salt Hill, Upton Lea, and Windsor Meadows. The urban area (but not the borough council area) merges into the neighbouring parishes of Burnham, Datchet, Farnham Royal, and Stoke Poges.
The nearest Met Office weather observing station to Slough is London Heathrow Airport, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Slough town centre. This part of the Thames Valley is notable for generally having the warmest daytime summer temperatures on average in the British Isles. Typically, according to 1981–2010 normals, the average high temperature in July is 23.5°C (74.3°F.)
Rainfall is low compared to most of the British Isles with under 600 mm (23.62 in) annually, and 105 days[22] reporting over 1 mm of rain.
Climate data for Heathrow Airport, elevation 25 m, 1981–2010 | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °C (°F) | 8.1 (46.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
11.3 (52.3) |
14.2 (57.6) |
17.9 (64.2) |
21.0 (69.8) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.2 (73.8) |
19.9 (67.8) |
15.5 (59.9) |
11.1 (52) |
8.3 (46.9) |
15.2 (59.36) |
Average low °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) |
2.1 (35.8) |
3.9 (39) |
5.5 (41.9) |
8.7 (47.7) |
11.7 (53.1) |
13.9 (57) |
13.7 (56.7) |
11.4 (52.5) |
8.4 (47.1) |
4.9 (40.8) |
2.7 (36.9) |
7.43 (45.38) |
Precipitation mm (inches) | 55.2 (2.173) |
40.9 (1.61) |
41.6 (1.638) |
43.7 (1.72) |
49.4 (1.945) |
45.1 (1.776) |
44.5 (1.752) |
49.5 (1.949) |
49.1 (1.933) |
68.5 (2.697) |
59.0 (2.323) |
55.2 (2.173) |
601.7 (23.689) |
Avg. rainy days | 11.1 | 8.5 | 9.3 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 10.8 | 10.3 | 10.2 | 109.6 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 61.5 | 77.9 | 114.6 | 168.7 | 198.5 | 204.3 | 212.0 | 204.7 | 149.3 | 116.5 | 72.6 | 52.0 | 1,632.6 |
Source: Met Office[23] |
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Slough became a haven for the unemployed Welsh, who walked up the Great West Road looking for employment.
According to the 2011 census, 45.7% of the population was White (34.5% White British, 1.1% White Irish, 0.2% Gypsy or Irish Traveller, 9.9% Other White), 3.4% of mixed race (1.2% White and Black Caribbean, 0.4% White and Black African, 1.0% White and Asian, 0.8% Other Mixed), 39.7% Asian (17.7% Pakistani, 15.6% Indian, 0.4% Bangladeshi, 0.6% Chinese, 5.4% Other Asian), 8.6% Black (5.4% African, 2.2% Caribbean, 1.0% Other Black), 0.7% Arab and 1.9% of other ethnic heritage.[1] In the post-war years, immigrants from the Commonwealth, notably Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, India and Pakistan were attracted to the town.
In the early 1950s, there were a number of Polish refugee camps scattered around the Slough area. As returning to Poland (then in the Soviet Bloc) was not considered an option by many of the wartime refugees, many Polish families decided to settle in Slough, an expanding town seeking committed workers and offering a chance to own homes for those prepared to work hard. In time, a Polish-speaking Roman Catholic Parish was established with its own church building. A new wave of Polish migration to Slough has followed since Poland became part of the European Union.
Slough Council made history by electing the country's first black female mayor, Lydia Simmons, in 1984.
Figures from the 2011 census showed that 41.2% of Slough's population identified as Christian, 23.3% as Muslim, 10.6% as Sikh, 6.2% as Hindu, 0.5% as Buddhist, 0.1% as Jewish, 0.3% as having other religions, 12.1% as having no religion and 5.7% did not answer the question. Slough has the highest percentage of Sikh residents in the country according to the census figures. Slough also has the highest percentage of Muslim and Hindu residents in the South East region.[24]
Slough's transport links make it a suitable location for those working in London, but looking for more affordable accommodation; as such it attracts a large number of young professionals and families.[25]
In 1863, Slough became a local government area for the first time, when a Slough Local Board of Health was elected to represent what is now the central part of the modern Borough. This part of Upton-cum-Chalvey Parish became Slough Urban Sanitary District in 1875 which was succeeded by Slough Urban District in 1894. In 1930, there was a major extension westward of the Urban District, and the area was divided into wards for the first time (the new areas of Burnham, Farnham and Stoke as well as the divisions of the old district Central, Chalvey, Langley and Upton). In 1938, the town received its first Royal Charter and became a Municipal Borough.
Slough was incorporated into Berkshire in the 1974 local government reorganisation. The old Municipal Borough was abolished and replaced by a Non-metropolitan district authority, which was made a Borough by the town's second Royal Charter. Britwell and Wexham Court became part of Slough at this time, with their own parish councils. On 1 April 1995, the Borough of Slough expanded slightly into Buckinghamshire and Surrey, to take in Colnbrook and Poyle, which received a joint parish council. Slough became a unitary authority on 1 April 1998, with the abolition of Berkshire County Council and the 1973–1998 Borough. The present unitary authority was created a Borough by the town's third Royal charter.
Town twinning[edit]
Slough is twinned with:
Before the 19th century, the main businesses of Slough were brickfields and agriculture. The bricks for the building of Eton College were made in Slough. Later, as the Great West Road traffic increased, inns and pubs sprang up along the road to service the passing trade. Until the town developed as an industrial area, nurseries were prominent in the local economy; the Cox's Orange Pippin apple was first raised in Colnbrook (not then within Slough) around 1825, and the dianthus "Mrs Sinkins Pink" was first raised at some point between 1868[27] and 1883[28] by John Sinkins, the master of the Eton Union Workhouse,[29] which lay in Slough.
In the mid-19th century, the only major employer apart from the brickfields was James Elliman, who started as a draper in Chandos Street. In 1847, he changed business and manufactured his Elliman's Embrocation and Royal Embrocation horse liniment at factories in Wellington Street and Chandos Street. Elliman became a major benefactor to the town, and is remembered today in the names of local roads and schools.
In September 1851, William Thomas Buckland, an auctioneer and surveyor from nearby Wraysbury, began livestock sales in a field near the Great Western Road Railway Station belonging to the North Star Inn. Originally held on the first Tuesday of every month, the Cattle Market's popularity soon saw this increased to every Tuesday. A move to Wexham Street was necessitated by the postwar redevelopment of the town. The Slough Cattle Market was run by Messrs Buckland and Sons until its final closure in 1988.[30]
In 1906, James Horlick, one of the eponymous founders of the malted milk company, opened a purpose-built red-brick factory near Slough Railway Station to manufacture his malted milk product.
Starting in the 1920s, Slough Estates Ltd, the operator of the original Slough Trading Estate, created and operated many more estates in the UK and abroad. The Slough Trading Estate meant that the town was largely insulated from many of the effects of recession. For many years, Slough's economy was mainly manufacturing-based.
In the last 20 or so years, there has been a major shift from a manufacturing to an information-based economy, with the closure of many factories (some of which had been in Slough for many decades). The factories are rapidly being replaced by office buildings. Hundreds of major companies have sited in Slough Trading Estate over the years, with its proximity to London Heathrow Airport and good motorway connections being attractive. In the 1960s, Gerry Anderson's film company was based in Slough, and his Supermarionation series, including Thunderbirds, were filmed there.
The UK headquarters of Mars, Incorporated is based in Slough, the main factory having been created in 1932 by Forrest Mars Sr. after a quarrel with his father, Frank C. Mars. He proceeded to develop and produce the Mars Bar in Slough over 70 years ago. One of the Mars factories has been demolished and a lot of production has moved to the Czech Republic. The European head offices of major IT companies such as BlackBerry, McAfee, Computer Associates, PictureTel and Compusys (among others) are all in the town. O2 is headquartered in the town across four buildings. The town is also home to the National Foundation for Educational Research, which is housed in The Mere.
Recent new offices include those of Nintendo, Black and Decker, Amazon.co.uk and Abbey business centres.[31] Dulux paints are still manufactured in Slough by AkzoNobel, which bought Imperial Chemical Industries in 2008. The registered office of Furniture Village lies in the town.[32] Sara Lee's headquarters for the United Kingdom are also in Slough.[citation needed]
The motor trade has long been represented in Slough. Until 1966, Citroën assembled cars in a Liverpool Road factory (later used by Mars Confectionery), and it retains its UK headquarters in the town. Ford built D Series and Cargo lorries at its factory in Langley (a former Hawker Aircraft site) from 1936 to the 1950s[33]) until the site was redeveloped for housing in the 1990s. Ferrari, Mercedes, Fiat and Maserati now have offices in the town.
Road transport[edit]
Slough is near London, Heathrow Airport, Uxbridge, Maidenhead and Staines, and the town is a travel hub. Many people from Slough work in nearby towns and cities such as Windsor, Reading, London and Bracknell, and there are large passenger movements in the morning and evening rush hours. Road transport in Slough includes:
- Within Slough: Buses (First Berkshire, Arriva, Redline & Carousel (only Sundays)), Taxis, minicabs and private cars on roads are also used.[35]
- To Heathrow Airport: First Berkshire & The Thames Valley bus routes 75, 76, 77 and 78 serve Slough town centre, Langley and Heathrow Airport. First also run bus routes 71 (via Windsor, Egham & Staines-upon-Thames) and 60/61 (via Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury) to Heathrow Terminal 5.[36] Taxis and minicabs are also available at a higher cost.[37]
- To London: Buses and Greenline coaches are available, but rail is more generally used as express trains connect Slough to London Paddington in 20 minutes.[38]
- To Birmingham: Bharat Coaches provide services from Southall to Birmingham/Wolverhampton/Coventry/Leeds via Slough.[39]
- Junction 5 (Langley & Slough East)
- Junction 6 (Central Slough)
- Junction 7 (Slough West)
- M25 (via M4)[40]
- M40 (via A412 or A355)[40]
- A4 (to Maidenhead or Hounslow)[40]
- A40 (via A412)[40]
- A355 (to Beaconsfield)[40]
- A412 (to Uxbridge, Denham, Rickmansworth & Watford)[40]
Rail transport[edit]
Slough is served by First Great Western stations at Burnham,[41] Slough[42] and Langley.[43] Slough station is a junction between the Great Western Main Line and the Slough to Windsor & Eton Line to allow passengers to connect for Windsor & Eton Central.
Reading: First Great Western operate express services to Reading every half an hour (approx every 06 & 36 mins past) which take 20 minutes.
London Paddington: First Great Western operate express services to London every half an hour (approx every 10 & 40 mins past) which take 17 minutes.
Slough is planned to be part of the Crossrail Project, a new trans-London rail link now under construction.[44] The Windsor Link Railway is another proposed railway line that would link Slough to Heathrow Terminal 5 via Wraysbury, Datchet, Windsor and Chalvey. The Western Rail Access to Heathrow, WRAtH, is a £500m rail project announced by the DfT. The proposed rail link would directly serve Slough with four trains every hour - reducing travel times from 45 to six minutes. It is expected to be operational by 2021. In February 2014, Network Rail announced the route for the project. The WRAtH project is expected to generate more than £2billion in economic benefits to the UK as well as 40,000 new jobs. [45][46] http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2014/02/05/97438-route-unveiled-for-western-rail-access-to-heathrow-wrath-project/#more
A bike sharing system was launched in October 2013, mainly focused on meeting the need of enabling workers at businesses operating from the town's trading estate to easily get to and from their places of employment from local railway stations.[47]
Slough has a senior non-League football team, Slough Town F.C., who currently play in the Southern League Division One Central, which is the 8th tier of football in England.
Slough Jets a UK hockey team in the English Premier Ice Hockey League.
Slough Hockey Club – The Ladies 1XI are currently in the top tier of English Hockey. The Men's 1XI are in MBBO Regional 1 whereas the Men's 2XI are in MBBO Division 3.
Slough Rugby Club are currently in the 5th Tier of the Rugby system.
The town has produced many Olympic class athletes as part of the 'Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletics Club' (see List of people from Slough, Berkshire).
There are numerous primary and secondary schools serving Slough. In addition, East Berkshire College has a campus in the area. Slough schools are in the top 10 best performers in the country at GCSE level. In 2011, 68.1% of students left school with a minimum of 5 A*-C grades (with English and maths). The national average is 58.9%.[48]
Thames Valley University (Slough Campus) is currently closed due to the Heart of Slough project. The new campus was scheduled to be opened in 2013 as part of the University of West London which is the new name for Thames Valley University; however, as of January 2014, the redevelopment of the site still has yet to get underway.
In 2014, the latest data shows that Slough's GCSE results have moved up to seventh place in the country and are bucking the national average for students achieving A* to C grades, including English and maths. [49]
Cultural references[edit]
- 1597: In Act IV, Scene 5[50] of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Bardolph is mugged: "so soon as I came beyond Eton, (cozenors) threw me off, from behind one of them, in a slough of mire". This could be a reference to Slough. In the same scene Cole-brooke (Colnbrook) is referenced along with Reading and Maidenhead.
- 1932: (but set in the 26th century) In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the chimneys of Slough Crematorium, around which Bernard Marx flies, are used to demonstrate the physio-chemical equality of all people.[51] (Slough's actual crematorium, in the cemetery in Stoke Road, was opened in 1963,[52] coincidentally the year of Huxley's death. Princess Margaret was cremated there in 2002.)
- 1937: The poet John Betjeman wrote his poem Slough as a protest against the new town and 850 factories that had arisen in what had been formerly a rural area, which he considered an onslaught on the rural lifestyle:
- Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
- It isn't fit for humans now
- There isn't grass to graze a cow.
- Swarm over, death!
- The poem was written two years before the outbreak of World War II, when Britain (including Slough itself) experienced bombing from enemy air raids. However, on the centenary of the poet's birth, the daughter of the poet apologised for the poem. Candida Lycett-Green said her father "regretted having ever written it". During her visit, Mrs Lycett-Green presented Mayor of Slough David MacIsaac with a book of her father's poems. In it was written: "We love Slough".[53]
- 1979: Slough is mentioned by name in the hit single "The Eton Rifles" by The Jam from the album Setting Sons: "There's a row going on down near Slough"
- 1991: Film Buddy's Song with externals filmed mainly on the Britwell Estate and the Farnham Road (A355) released.
- 1996: The Tiger Lillies' album The Brothel to the Cemetery includes a track called "Slough", probably inspired by Betjeman's poem. The lyrics to the chorus are:
- Drop a bomb on Slough, Drop a bomb on Slough
- Drop a bomb on Slough, Drop a bomb on Slough
- 1998: The song "Costa del Slough" by the rock band Marillion posits the town as a post-global warming coastal resort, possibly in a reference to the comedian Spike Milligan having presented Slough on TV as a holiday resort.
- 2001, 2002, 2003: The BBC comedy series The Office is set in the sales office of a paper company in Slough, presenting it as a depressing post-industrial wasteland. The character David Brent comments on Betjeman's poem in the series, which also appears on the inside sleeve of the video and DVD of Series 1. In the US version, the office is located on "Slough Avenue" in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- 2004: Slough is mentioned on the ABC series Lost in the episode "Homecoming" of Season 1. In a flashback of Charlie's life, a woman he knows says her father is away purchasing a paper company in Slough. It is possible that this is a reference to The Office.
- 2009: In episode 8, Series 1 of The Legend of Dick and Dom, a CBBC show, the characters find themselves in modern-day Slough.
Negative perceptions[edit]
- According to research by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in 2006, Slough is England's least tranquil area.[54]
- Slough has been the subject of much derision. Some references are mentioned above. However, the BBC aired a four-part series called Making Slough Happy, where a team of experts attempted to bring happiness to the whole town.[55]
- Slough-raised comedian Jimmy Carr said: "I grew up in Slough in the 1970s; if you want to know what Slough was like in the 1970s, go there now".
- The Slough Sewage Treatment Works between M4 Junction 6 and 7 sometimes releases malodorous fumes detectable to drivers on the nearby M4 motorway, a phenomenon known colloquially as the "Slough Stench". The plant was built between 1936 and 1938.[56]
- In July 2007 Slough was the subject of a documentary by the BBC's Panorama series, entitled "Immigration – how we lost count".[57][58] It highlighted recent growth in the immigrant population.
- The Sky TV programme Road Wars regularly featured Slough and highlighted its narcotics problem.[59]
- Slough has a relatively high crime rate, with figures for all crime statistic categories above the English average and figures for several categories more than double the English average.[60] According to British Crime Survey statistics, as of September 2013, Slough had the second worst rate of crime among other areas in Thames Valley (87 recorded crimes per 1000 population vs Oxford's 104).[61] However, recent reports in 2013 show that crime in the area has reduced marketedly with a 29% decrease in the last ten years.[62]
Upton Court Park plays host to many carnivals and fun fairs during the summer. The Slough Mela held annually takes place here.
Home to the Slough Jets, Slough Ice Arena is a local attraction.
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Matt Leinart is hoping to get one more shot to show what he can do as an NFL starting quarterback.
With Carson Palmer sidelined for Oakland's season finale in San Diego with cracked ribs and a bruised lung, Leinart and third-stringer Terrelle Pryor have been sharing time at practice.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen says he won't pick a starter until after Friday's practice but it seems likely both quarterbacks will get a chance. Leinart has started only two games since 2007 and failed to live up the expectations of winning the Heisman Trophy at Southern California and being a first-round draft pick by Arizona in 2006.
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Leinart started 16 games his first two seasons in Arizona before being sidelined by a broken left collarbone in 2007. He was beaten out the next season by Kurt Warner and started one game his final two seasons with the Cardinals.
Leinart then signed with Houston in 2010 and got another chance to start late last season when Matt Schaub went down with a foot injury. But Leinart got hurt in the first half of his first start, missing a chance to take the Texans to the playoffs.
He signed this past offseason with Oakland and had thrown only one pass before replacing Palmer in the first quarter of last week's 17-6 loss at Carolina. Leinart completed 16 of 32 passes for 115 yards, no touchdowns and one interception for a 45.7 passer rating.
''I felt a little rusty,'' Leinart said. ''I think my footwork, for me, wasn't as good as I wanted it to be, and what I work on. But I think again, that was just kind of getting in there, hadn't played in a while. But it is what it is, moved on and watched the film and been practicing well this week and just trying to correct those mistakes.''
Offensive coordinator Greg Knapp acknowledged the difficult situation Leinart went into but was disappointed in his play. Knapp was particularly upset by an interception late in the first half that led to a Panthers touchdown and a ball Leinart threw away on fourth down late in the game.
''He didn't play as well as I would have liked,'' Knapp said. ''I wished his footwork would have been better on a consistent basis. It's hard for any backup quarterback to come in on short notice without any reps, but that comes with the job. You got to know that going in. He struggled a little bit with the footwork and his consistency. He had it sometimes but not all the time.''
The Raiders have an interesting decision this week. Coach Dennis Allen said Pryor wasn't ready to be the backup last week but could start this week after getting more practice time than usual.
Allen and general manager Reggie McKenzie have talked about wanting to get a better look at Pryor down the stretch, but whether that's as a part-time player or a starter remains to be seen.
''I think I deserve to play, I deserve to start, not sure what's going to happen, but that's all you can do -- just keep preparing, keep working hard, be here, be accountable and whatever happens, whatever decision is made, that's what's made,'' Leinart said. ''If they want to start Terrelle and evaluate him and see what he can do, then I'll support that and I'll help him this week and help him during the game. But if they make me the starter and stuff, I'm just going to go out there and try to capitalize on that opportunity.''
Palmer won't travel to the game because of the bruised lung but Leinart said he is doing better even though he is moving around slowly.
''He's one of the toughest guys I've ever been around,'' Leinart said. ''When he was laying on the ground I knew something was wrong because he's normally up, not matter what. He's the type of guy who will never tell you if something's wrong, and obviously, he took a big shot, but he'll be fine.''
NOTES: The Raiders placed DT Richard Seymour on IR with a hamstring injury. Seymour missed the final eight games of the season with the injury and is eligible for free agency in the offseason. ... G Mike Brisiel has passed the concussion protocol but is still sidelined by an ankle injury which could give rookie Tony Bergstrom a chance to start. ... DBs Tyvon Branch (neck, ankle) and Phillip Adams (groin) and RB Mike Goodson (illness) did not practice.
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COLUMBIA — On Tuesday, the southbound lanes of U.S. 63 will be restricted to one lane while the Columbia Terminal Railroad performs routine repairs on the tracks, according to a city news release. Maintenance at the crossing, located in north Columbia between Paris Road and Brown Station Road, will be done during the middle of the day and is expected to last about four hours. The repairs are a part of ongoing track maintenance, said Connie Kacprowicz, the public information specialist for the city.
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Construction of the Circuit of the Americas outside of Austin, TX has resumed, after the track finally secured its contract with Formula One for a 2012 round. Work at the Circuit of the Americas had been suspended indefinitely after a contract between F1 and CotA was not signed by its appropriate deadline. However with Formula One Boss Bernie Ecclestone now getting his blood money, construction can once again resume in Texas.
Announcing that Formula One would race on a street course in New Jersey, along the shore of the Hudson, Eccelstone sent an all-too-clear message to the Texan venue that it was not the only option for F1 in the USA. While entirely an issue of posturing within Formula One's circles, the spill-over affect of the Circuit of the Americas shutting down construction had obvious ramifications for MotoGP's intention of running a Texan GP in 2013. From the looks of things, the Texan MotoGP round should not be affected by stoppage in work, and should proceed as planned.


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West Milford home heavily damaged in fire
A fire roared through a large home in West Milford shortly after midnight Sunday, with help called in from several neighboring towns to assist township firefighters.
No one was injured in the blaze, which an area resident reported around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The two-story house on Awosting Road was unoccupied at the time of the fire, which is under investigation, West Milford Fire Marshal Ron Svrchek said.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, there was heavy fire coming out of the garage, and it had spread throughout most of the house. The fire was considered under control at about 1:20 a.m., and was out by roughly 2 a.m.
The house sustained heavy damage, Svrchek said.
In addition to West Milford, mutual-aid fire departments from municipalities including Butler, Bloomingdale, Pompton Lakes and Tuxedo, N.Y., responded to the scene, Svrchek said.
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Themes > Science > Life Sciences > Physical Anthropology > Human Genetic Evolution > Early Modern Homo sapiens |
Compared to the Neandertals and other archaic Homo sapiens, modern humans generally have more delicate skeletons. Their skulls that are more rounded. Their brow ridges are less protruding. They also have relatively high foreheads and pointed chins.
The first fossils of early Homo sapiens sapiens to be identified were found in 1868 in a 28,000 year old rock shelter site near the village of Les Eyzies in southwestern France. They were subsequently named the Cro-Magnon people. They were very similar in appearance to modern Europeans. Males were 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet tall. Their skeletons generally were lighter than the Neandertals. The Cro-Magnon had broad, small faces with pointed chins and high foreheads. Their cranial capacities were up to 1590 cm3, which is relatively large even for people today. Origins of Modern Humans Current data suggest that Homo sapiens sapiens very likely evolved from archaic Homo sapiens relatively rapidly in Africa and/or the Southwest Asia. They have been dated to 115,000-96,000 years ago at Qafzeh Cave in Israel. In South Africa, they have been found at Klasses River Mouth and Border Cave sites dating to 120,000-100,000 years ago. Since these time ranges overlap, it is not clear which area was the earliest to have modern people. However, it was not until 50,000-40,000 years ago that they began to appear in Europe and East Asia. This was during a short temperate period in the midst of the last ice age. It would seem from these dates that the location of initial modern human evolution and the direction of their dispersion from that area is obvious. That is not the case. Since the early 1980's, there have been two leading contradictory models that attempt to explain Homo sapiens sapiens evolution--the replacement model and the regional continuity model. The replacement model of Christopher Stringer and Peter Andrews proposes that modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens 200,000-100,000 years ago in Africa and then some of them migrated into the rest of the Old World replacing all of the Neandertals and other late archaic Homo sapiens. If this interpretation of the fossil record is correct, all modern people share relatively modern African ancestry. All other lines of humans that had descended from Homo erectus presumably became extinct. From this view, the regional anatomical differences that we see among humans today are recent developments--evolving only in the last 50,000-40,000 years. This hypothesis is also referred to as the out of Africa and the Noah's ark model. The regional continuity (or multiregional) model of Milford Wolpoff at the University of Michigan proposes that modern humans evolved more or less simultaneously in all major regions of the Old World from local archaic Homo sapiens populations. For example, modern Chinese are seen as having evolved from Chinese archaic Homo sapiens and ultimately from Chinese Homo erectus. This would mean that the Chinese and some other peoples in the Old World have great antiquity in place. Advocates of this model believe that the ultimate common ancestor of all humans was Homo erectus in Africa more than a million years ago. Since then, however, it is proposed that there was sufficient gene flow between Europe, Africa, and Asia to prevent reproductive isolation and the subsequent evolution of distinct regional species. It is argued that intermittent contact between people of these distant areas would have kept the human line a single species at any one time. However, regional varieties, or sub-species, of humans are expected to have existed. Replacement Model Arguments There are two lines of evidence supporting the replacement model--the fossil record and DNA. So far, the earliest finds of modern Homo sapiens skeletons come from Africa and bordering areas of southwest Asia. Elsewhere in the Old World they appear 60,000-50,000 years later. Unless modern human remains dating to around 100,000 years ago are found in Europe and/or East Asia, it would seem that the replacement model better explains the data. Geneticists at the University of California have argued that the geographic region in which modern people have lived the longest should have the greatest amount of genetic diversity. They base this on the premise that the rate of mutation is more or less constant everywhere. Through comparisons of mitochondrial DNA from living people throughout the world, it was concluded that Africa has the greatest genetic diversity and therefore must be the homeland of all Homo sapiens sapiens. Assuming a specific rate of mutation, it was suggested that the common ancestor of modern humans was a woman living 200,000-100,000 years ago. She has been dubbed "mitochondrial Eve." Critics of this genetic argument say that the rate of mutation is not necessarily constant and that there were flaws in the computer program that was used to construct the human family trees. The results varied with the order in which the data were entered. Further genetic studies carried out since the mid 1990's have both supported and undermined an African origin for modern humans. John Relethford, of the State University of New York College at Oneonta, has pointed out that Africa could have had the greatest diversity in mtDNA simply because there were more people living there during the last several hundred thousand years. Researchers from the University of Chicago and Yale University have discovered that variations in the DNA of the Y chromosome and chromosome 12 have the greatest diversity among Africans. This is consistent with the replacement model. However, geneticists from Oxford University have found that the human betaglobin gene is widely distributed in Asia but not in Africa. Since this gene is thought to have originated more than 200,000 years ago, it undercuts the claim that an African population of Homo sapiens sapiens replaced East Asian archaic Homo sapiens. Regional Continuity Model Arguments Fossil evidence is used to support the regional continuity model. Its advocates claim that there has been a continuity of some anatomical traits from archaic Homo sapiens to modern humans in Europe and Asia. In other words, the Asian and European physical characteristics have antiquity in these regions going back over 100,000 years. They point to the fact that many Europeans have relatively heavy brow ridges reminiscent of Neandertals. Similarly, it is claimed that Chinese facial characteristics can be seen in Asian archaic Homo sapiens dating to 200,000 years ago. Like Homo erectus, East Asians today commonly have shovel-shaped incisors while Africans and Europeans rarely do. This supports the contention of direct genetic links between Asian Homo erectus and modern Asians. Alan Thorne of the Australian National University believes that Australian aborigines share key skeletal and dental traits with people who inhabited Indonesia at least 100,000 years ago. The implication is that there was no replacement by modern humans from Africa 60,000-50,000 years ago. However, the evidence does not rule out gene flow from African populations to Europe and Asia at that time and before. David Frayer of the University of Kansas believes that a number of European fossils from the last 50,000 years have characteristics that are the result of archaic and modern Homo sapiens interbreeding. Middle Ground Arguments It is apparent that both the complete replacement and the regional continuity models have difficulty accounting for all of the fossil and genetic data. What is now emerging are new models that incorporate both of the old ones. One suggestion has been a partial replacement model. Günter Bräuer of the University of Hamburg in Germany proposes that the first modern humans did evolve in Africa, but when they migrated into other regions they did not simply replace existing human populations. Rather, they interbred to a limited degree with late archaic Homo sapiens resulting in hybrid populations. In Europe, for instance, the first modern humans appear in the archaeological record rather suddenly around 40,000 years ago. The abruptness of the appearance of these Cro-Magnon people could be explained by their migrating into the region from another area, possibly Southwest Asia or North Africa. They apparently shared Europe with Neandertals for another 10,000 years or more. During this long time period, it is argued that interbreeding occurred and that the partially hybridized predominantly Cro-Magnon population ultimately became the modern Europeans. Expansion Out of the Old World The world population of modern Homo sapiens began to grow rapidly after 50,000-40,000 years ago. It was around this time they expanded their territory by migrating into new regions. Their movement into northern areas coincided with the end of a long cold period that had begun about 75,000 years ago. By 60,000 years ago, modern humans apparently moved into Australia for the first time. Around 35,000-30,000 years ago, they moved into Northeastern Siberia. Possibly as early as 30,000 years ago and certainly by 11,500 years ago, they migrated into North America via the Bering Plain (or Beringia). That intercontinental land connection appeared between Siberia and Alaska as a result of sea levels dropping more than 300 feet during the last ice age. Until that time, all human evolution had occurred in the Old World. The rate of human population growth has continued to accelerate until now. The current world population is over six billion and intercontinental migration and gene flow are at higher levels than ever before. A tragic consequence of human migrations into new regions of the world has been the extinction of many animal species indigenous to those areas. By 11,000 years ago, human hunters in the New World apparently had wiped out 135 species of mammals, including 3/4 of the larger ones. Most of these extinctions apparently occurred within a few hundred years. It is likely that the changing climate at the end of the last ice age was also a contributing factor. However, the same cannot be said for the animal extinctions that occurred following the arrival of aboriginal people in Australia and Polynesians in New Zealand. In both cases, humans were instrumental in wiping out easily hunted species. Vulnerable marsupials were the main victims in Australia. In New Zealand, it was mostly large flightless birds that were driven to extinction by hunters. It is sobering to realize that the rate of animal and plant extinction has once again accelerated dramatically. During the last century and a half, the explosion in our global human population and our rapid technological development has allowed us to move into and over exploit most areas of the planet. That exploitation has usually involved cutting down forests, changing the courses of rivers, pushing wild animals and plants out of farm and urban areas, polluting wetlands with pesticides and other man-made chemicals, and industrial-scale hunting of large land animals, whales, and fish. During the early 19th century, there were at least 40,000,000 bison roaming the Great Plains of North America. By the end of that century, there were only a few hundred remaining. They had been hunted to near extinction with guns. The same fate came to the African elephant and rhinoceros during the 20th century. Likewise, commercial fisherman have depleted one species of fish after another during the last half century. Governments have had to step in to try to stem the tide of these human population effects on other species. However, they have been only marginally successful. Late
Breaking News: Part
of the mitochondrial DNA was extracted recently from the bones of a
60,000 year old modern Homo sapiens skeleton found in 1974 on the shores
of Lake Mungo in Southeastern Australia. This is the oldest DNA
that has been extracted from a human so far. Comparison of this
DNA with that of nine other ancient Australian skeletons, 2 Neandertals,
and 3,453 contemporary people from around the world indicates that
"Mungo Man" had a unique genetic marker. This indicates
that a now lost genetic line of modern Homo sapiens existed in Australia
prior to the arrival of later Australian Aborigines. This evidence
provides significant support for rejecting the "out of Africa"
complete replacement model of modern Homo sapiens evolution. More Late Breaking News: In a March 7, 2002 article in Nature , Alan Templeton, a geneticist at Washington University, reported that a new computer based analysis of 10 different human DNA sequences indicate that there has been interbreeding between people living in Asia, Europe, and Africa for at least 600,000 years. These data suggest that the complete replacement model of Homo sapiens origin is incorrect. According to Templeton, "humans expanded again and again out of Africa, but these expansions resulted in interbreeding, not replacement, and thereby strengthened the genetic ties between human populations throughout the world." This view is gaining support among paleoanthropologists, but critics say that Templeton's sample is still too small to be conclusive. |


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Entropy 2012, 14(7), 1296-1305; doi:10.3390/e14071296
A Model of Nonsingular Universe
The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, CAS, Beijing 100190, China
Received: 19 April 2012; in revised form: 4 June 2012 / Accepted: 13 June 2012 / Published: 23 July 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modified Gravity: From Black Holes Entropy to Current Cosmology)
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Abstract: In the background of Friedmann–Robertson–Walker Universe, there exists Hawking radiation which comes from the cosmic apparent horizon due to quantum effect. Although the Hawking radiation on the late time evolution of the universe could be safely neglected, it plays an important role in the very early stage of the universe. In view of this point, we identify the temperature in the scalar field potential with the Hawking temperature of cosmic apparent horizon. Then we find a nonsingular universe sourced by the temperature-dependent scalar field. We find that the universe could be created from a de Sitter phase which has the Planck energy density. Thus the Big-Bang singularity is avoided.
Keywords: Hawking temperature; scalar field; nonsingular universe
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Watch the babies grow and learn under your care! As a young babysitter who moves to a new town, it's up to you to develop relationships with your small charges as you work for a job at the nursery. Watch the babies learn to grab things, walk, and interact with other babies. Customize the children's looks with different outfits. Participate in a number of fun mini-games, involving eight different babies and 20 different missions. You can even join up with a friend via Wi-Fi to coordinate a play date with your baby and your friend's baby. Prove you have the nurturing skills to be the best!
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This game was boring,unimaginative and rather hard.I dont reccomend it at all.:(Instead check out the Sims DS games.Just dont waste your money.Oh but the first few minutes of play were good.more
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