The Crier Archives 2000-2023 click here Hear ye Hear ye! The Crier is always looking for things to shout about! Feel free to submit y our Thoughts, Poems, Requests or anything you like to the Cookham 16 July 2024 - SWAN UPPING TIME AGAIN (updated 18 July 2024) The Swan Uppers were in Cookham today, marking the swans on the annual Swan Upping. 5 July 2024 - THERESA MAY NOMINATED FOR A PEERAGE Former prime minister Theresa May will sit in the House of Lords having been nominated for a peerage. Sh e will enter the House of Lords after she was given a peerage in the dissolution honours list. Dissolution life peerages are awarded by the King after the dissolution of Parliament before a General Election, with nominations often made by major parties for MPs who are standing down. Theresa May announced in March that she would not be standing again in Maidenhead after 27 years as the Conservative MP for the constituency. 28 June 2024 - ACCIDENT ON M40 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION