Ascot Racecourse is delighted to announce a raft of arrangements and benefits for Owners ahead of next week's Royal Meeting.

An online Racing Hub has been set up which will house the Turftrax live feed to real time weather data and going stick readings plus, during racedays, access to a live 360 degree Parade Ring camera feed which will pick up every horse as it walks around the Parade Ring.

Ascot's official photographer will take pictures of every horse in the Parade Ring for owners to access post-event. Trainers and jockeys are very welcome to film / Facetime pre and post race debriefs with owners on their smartphones.

Also available on the Racing Hub will be the full sectionals from every race, courtesy of Ascot's Official Timekeeper, Longines. Both ITV and Sky Sports Racing will show sectional times on screen.

On Sunday, Sky Sports Racing will be filming a behind the scenes piece with Clerk of the Course, Chris Stickels, in the Weighing Room and Parade Ring area. A link to this will be sent to owners, and indeed horsemen generally, via the ROA and respective industry bodies in advance of racing. 

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The Countess of Wessex supports ‘Nourish our Nurses’ with visit to St Peter’s Hospital |  

Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex, spent the morning volunteering for NHS voluntary group ‘Nourish our Nurses’ and meeting nurses and midwives at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey on Tuesday 12^th May to mark International Nurses Day. The day coincides with the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale on 12^th May 1820.

‘Nourish our Nurses’ was founded by Jo-Ann Airikkala and comprises a small team of sixteen volunteers who have undertaken a supreme fundraising effort to raise over £45k; £29k via their GoFundMe page and a further £17k from Virgin Radio’s NHS Auction.

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Sunninghill and Ascot Parish Council is working in tandem with local churches and organisations to provide a Covid 19 Support Hub.

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals’ joins fight against Coronavirus in ground-breaking new study

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals’ has joined the fight against Coronavirus by recruiting COVID-19 patients to participate in a ground-breaking new study of the disease performed by the partnership between the GenOMICC Study Consortium (led by the University of Edinburgh) and Genomics England.

The study will help us better understand the virus’ varied effects on people and support the search for treatments.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s GenOMICC project will work together with Genomics England and over 170 NHS hospitals. The study aims to sequence the genomes of 20,000 people who are severely ill with COVID-19.

This major new human whole genome sequencing study has been awarded £28 million of funding from Genomics England, UK Research and Innovation, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).  

The data collected by Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals’ and others will be compared to that from a further 15,000 COVID-19 patients who experienced only mild symptoms.

Virtual focus groups help to develop homelessness strategy |  Two virtual focus groups have been delivered to help the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead refresh its Homelessness Strategy.

The virtual sessions were held on Monday 18 May – one brought together over 50 individuals and organisations including local charities, Thames Valley Police, the Clinical Commissioning Group and others who help to provide services to the homeless and those in need of housing assistance, and the other was open to councillors.

The digital focus groups were introduced by Councillor Ross McWilliams, cabinet member for housing, communications and youth engagement and were supported by Tracy Hendren, head of housing and her service leads from the department.

Councillor Ross McWilliams, says: “It was great that even during the current coronavirus crisis, we were able to get a lot of people onto a digital platform so they could hear what the council has achieved since the original strategy was approved back in 2018.

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Thames Valley Police is releasing this CCTV image of a man officers would like to speak to following an assault with injury in Ascot.

At around 8.54pm on Wednesday 15 April, the victim, a man in his fifties, was working at the till of Wavey Line Food Stores on Rise Road when the offender hit him in the head with a bottle, causing injury.
The victim did not require hospital treatment.

CCTV shows 2 men forcing the front door.  They then fill a laundry bag with alcohol and cigarettes.  The police attended immediately as the alarm sounded.  The men hearing the sirens, immediately abandon the bags.  One made off towards Lynwood Crescent, over a fence and onto the railway line.  If anyone has any CCTV / video doorbell footage that might be of interest to the police, can they please make contact with us quoting ref. No:  43200143888

Investigating officer, PC Bethany Foster, based at Maidenhead police station, said: “I am appealing to anyone who has information that could assist with this investigation to get in touch.