BURGLARIES including two where cars were stolen prompted the beat officer PC de Haan to urge residents to put their car keys out of sight at night. It is so easy to break in and take the keys if they are left in full view.

There have also been several thefts from cars and also from locked garden buildings.

YOUTH CLUB is back in action after the summer break and now there are enough volunteers, but there could be more members.

There are 15 youngsters who meet at Cookham Dean Cricket Club on Monday evenings and on Monday, October 10 they will learn about circus skills.

LIZ KWANTES is the present chairman of the Cookham Twinning and at the end of October there were will be 14 people from Cookham spending five days with their twin town St Benoit in France.

LAST SUNDAY at Holy Trinity Church there was a generous harvest of tinned foods and dry goods to be sent to the Slough Refugee Emergency Fund.

It was also Harvest Festival at Cookham Dean Parish Church with the goods to be sent to the Salvation Army in Maidenhead for use at their weekly lunches for homeless people.

At Cookham Dean the parish church has its harvest supper at the Village Hall tomorrow.

ALLOTMENT HOLDERS in Cookham Dean and Sutton Road have lost some of their produce to hungry rabbits and the occasional young deer. One allotment holder had offered to shoot the rabbits but the Cookham Parish Council did not support this request. The latest irritation is the theft of spades and rakes from Sutton Road.

TARRYSTONE PLAYERS are staging "The Mystery at Mallen Hall" in a Sherlock Holmes mystery at Pinder Hall from yesterday evening to tomorrow evening.

There is lots of audience participation as Holmes is visited by various people who could each be involved in the murder of Sir Howard Latham and visitors are asked to play detective and decide who has been guilty of murder.

Holmes has to solve the murder without leaving his snowbound London home. Tickets are £7.50 from the stationery depot at Cookham Rise.