Andrew Colley and Jasmine Rapson

A controversial councillor apologised to his colleagues after attracting criticism in recent weeks before he was “weighed in” as mayor of High Wycombe this morning.

An elderly woman who was murdered in a brutal attack at her country home this morning has been named as an 81-year-old widow, feared to have been burned after disturbing a burglar.

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Claim comes after Marlow-based Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School revealed it wants to build a “satellite school” in Maidenhead, mirroring plans for a ground-breaking “annexe” school in Kent, approved by the government last week.