New 'gateway features' are being installed in Colnbrook - welcoming visitors to the village and highlighting its historic past in four separate images.

The signs are set up at either end of the traffic-calmed section of road through the village - in High Street and opposite the Punch Bowl.

They look like a country gate and have signs warning drivers that they are entering a CCTV-monitored Conservation Area.

Cllr Dexter Smith - who represents the village on the Borough Council and is also a member of the Parish Council - worked with Keep Britain Tidy and Heathrow Better Neighbour Project on the design of the gateways.

He said: "The idea behind these gateway features is that they are designed to deter traffic that shouldn't be driving through this stretch of road which is under an Access Only restriction, but also to deter criminal and anti-social behaviour, improving public safety while educating people about Colnbrook's important place in history."

Three new CCTV cameras are also due to be put up at each end of the High Street in September, bounded by the gateways.

*Colnbrook Parish councillors raised the eighth Green Flag awarded to Colnbrook Recreation Ground on Wednesday.

They are also celebrated the opening of a parish office for the first time since the parish's creation in 1995 - at Westfield Hall on Severn Crescent.