FOOD company Granada Healthcare is taking the unusual step of inviting members of the public to dine in a new basement restaurant at Wycombe Hospital. The food company bosses say they want everyone to visit the new restaurant in the basement to sample
THE future of Marlow Regatta hangs in the balance as organisers debate whether to transfer the popular event to a lake in Eton. A special steering committee has been set up to report back on the financial viability of a move. Regatta secretary Tony Evans
Here's a run-down of the films showing in the area this week. Antz (PG) The animated ant colony goes to war, has a revolution and provides the backdrop for Ant Z's (Woody Allen) love life. With Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone and Christopher Walken.
A Bug's Life 95min Dir John Lasseter and Andrew StantoN. IT'S always the way, isn't it? You wait all your life for a computer animated story set in an ants' nest and then two come along at once. Like Antz, released at the end of last year, A Bug's Life
Still not shedding that Christmas excess? Try this, says Lindi Bilgorri. WITH so many different forms of exercise classes around these days, it is hard to believe that there could be a totally fresh idea in keep fit -- but there is, Chi Ball. Intrigued
Derek Suffling visits Celtic artist, Yeshe Spooner, to find out about this ancient craft. CELTIC artist Yeshe Spooner hopes her work will help put British people back in touch with their true cultural heritage. Yeshe, 35, of Timber Way, Chinnor, says:
MOBILE phone masts are spreading faster than weeds, said Cllr David Coe. The Great Marlow parish and Wycombe district councillor spoke after the Orange mobile phone firm submitted plans for a 100ft mast at High Heavens waste disposal site, near Marlow
MEDICAL giant Nycomed Amersham is set to transport radioactive waste out of the area almost a year after winning the right to move it into Little Chalfont. Residents were outraged after Nycomed won permission to move more radioactive waste from its factory
WYCOMBE High School were the surprise success story of this year's National Indoor Clubs Under-19s tournament at Crystal Palace last weekend. The team, who found themselves drawn in one of the hardest pools of the contest, ended up taking joint third.
VILLAGERS wanting to post a letter in Turville face a curious problem -- someone keeps moving the postbox. The box stood on the same site for 50 years before the Royal Mail decided to move it onto the village green. One Turville resident was so incensed
A SHOCK new report claims hospitals in South Bucks are suffering one of the worst staff shortages in the south of England, prompting fears that patients are being put at risk. The survey, by health workers union Unison, says South Buckinghamshire NHS
COUNCIL bosses want to build bus shelter-style huts for young people to hang-out in around South Buckinghamshire in a bid to cut vandalism. The youth shelters, which consist of a roof supported by pillars, are designed for teenagers to hang around in
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after arsonists started three blazes in Chesham which could have triggered a gas explosion at the town's Waitrose store. The fires were started in the doorways of McDonald's, electrical goods dealers Chittertons and
Sandra Carter begins her month-long tour of eateries populated by the culturally famous. IT'S not just the lure of the fair Chiltern hills that makes this area home to the great and the good. They like the inns and pubs too. So many artists, writers and
Bucks Dance has seen funding upped by £6,000. Derek Suffling reports. DANCERS in South Bucks will benefit from a huge leap in Arts Council funding. Southern Arts last week announced average rises of 14 per cent for arts organisations in the southern region
A BULLET wound from the Second World War could be one of the factors which caused pensioner Alfred Randle to fall to his death down a flight of stairs, an inquest heard. Mr Randle, 81, of Treacher's Close, Chesham, fell backwards at his home after drinking
YOUNG Adam Birdseye could hardly believe it when he hit a hole-in-one, not because it was his first, but because it was his second in less than six months. The shot every golfer strives for was hit at Hazlemere Golf Club's 11th green, the same hole the
MORE than 400 mourners, some from as far away as Ghana, attended a service of thanksgiving for minister's wife Margaret Brazier who died in a road smash. Mrs Brazier, 55, of Rutland Avenue, High Wycombe, died on January 17 after her car was in a head-on
FORMER Wycombe boss John Gregory is among the bookies favourites to replace Glenn Hoddle as England boss less than a year since he left Wycombe Wanderers for Aston Villa. He is quoted at 12-1 although, as is customary with candidates for the England job
POLICE have launched a major anti-burglary initiative in a bid to cut the number of house break-ins and thefts on a High Wycombe housing estate. Officers visited 1,000 homes on the crime-hit Castlefield estate as part of Operation Grotto to photograph
WYCOMBE Wanderers plan to announce their new boss today, with Wimbledon's Lawrie Sanchez expected to be the man. The Wycombe board have offered the job to someone, believed to be Sanchez, and are just waiting for him to say 'yes' before going public today
THE private Bon Secours Hospital has announced it will close next month with the loss of nearly 50 jobs. The charity-run hospital, in Candlemas Lane, Beaconsfield, says it is shutting down because of increasingly competitive conditions in the private
CHEF Simon Bradford lost a more than a stone in weight after he volunteered for free liposuction advertised by a men's magazine on the Internet. Plastic surgeons at the London Stamford Hospital's Institute of Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery sucked
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE headteachers say the recent pay award from the Government will do little to tackle the problem of recruiting and retaining teachers. The Government announced its pay bonanza on Tuesday with teachers and deputies seeing a pay increase of
PEOPLE with mental health problems will benefit from new strategies being developed by Buckinghamshire Health Authority. The strategies aim to develop services for adults and youngsters for the next five years. They have been developed in conjunction
TOWN council chairman David Allworth wants to see Princes Risborough put in the picture. Cllr Allworth, who has lived in the town for over 40 years, says it is now almost impossible to get postcards depicting the many picturesque scenes of Risborough.
ISLAMIC leaders have accused authorities of ignoring their efforts to find a suitable place to build a new mosque. The 1,500-strong Muslim community in Chesham have had to make do with a makeshift mosque, in two converted houses in Bellingdon Road, for
THESE days people are rarely shocked by cuts in the number of beds and closures of hospital wards in the National Health Service. But no one expects a private hospital to close because of increased competition. That is exactly what has happened to Bon
EAGLE-EYED traffic warden Tracey Wiser put the brakes on a suspected shoplifter after sprinting after him and helping police officers to apprehend him. The incident happened when Miss Wiser, 30, who is a qualified fitness trainer, was on patrol in Beaconsfield
COUNCIL bosses want to build bus-shelter type huts for young people to hang out in around South Bucks in a bid to cut vandalism. The youth shelters would be similar to bus shelters and aim to distract young people from vandalising other buildings. Apparently
Will the Government's inflation-busting pay rises stem the exodus of nurses from the NHS in South Bucks? Reporter DEREK SUFFLING went to Wycombe Hospital to find out. HEALTH service professionals, workers and union officials in South Bucks welcomed the
ANGRY parents fighting to save a special school for the deaf say they will not give up -- despite the fact only two MPs turned up at a special meeting in the House of Commons. Parents arranged for a discussion with 17 MPs last Thursday to get them to
DISABLED athlete Clare Strange hopes good will come out of Glenn Hoddle's dismissal for saying handicapped people were paying for the sins of a past life. Clare, 18, of Bottom Road, Radnage, is wheelchair-bound after breaking her spine in a horseriding
ANGRY taxi drivers protested on the steps of Wycombe District Council this week following plans to introduce more cabs in the town. A survey carried out for the council last year into the demand for taxis concluded two more were needed to satisfy demand
