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• Jazz bust-up leaves me blue

  HAVING been at the recent Marlow Jazz-Groove festival, I was interested to read your article in the Marlow Free Press. It was an excellent day, and artists and organisers should be congratulated. read more

• Campaigners win chance to buy hospital

  CAMPAIGNERS fighting to maintain the now defunct Watlington Hospital as a medical facility are delighted after being approved as priority buyers for the site. read more

• Marathon cash is gratitude to son's school

  PARENT Sarah Krajnovic raised cash for a Wycombe school after it helped improve her son's communication problems. read more

• 'Schools get less funding than target'

  SCHOOLS in Buckinghamshire receive funding below set Government targets for education, claim local headteachers. read more

• Relatives' anguish over desecration of graves

  GRIEVING relatives have spoken of their disgust after vandals desecrated eleven graves in Marlow Cemetery. read more

• Police chief calls for changes to justice system

  POLICE boss Charles Pollard has called for changes in law to keep the criminal justice system a credible institution for bringing offenders to justice. read more

• Father's heartfelt plea to find car that killed his son

  DEVASTATED dad Jake Bowden made a heartfelt plea on national television to find the driver of the car that killed his son Paul. read more

• Pupils order 'will hit school's standards'

  THE headteacher at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School has said that standards will suffer after 12 pupils successfully appealed to be allowed to attend his school. read more

• Urgent plea as lifeline for the elderly is threatened

  WHEN a nine-year-old girl sat down to write to a centre for the elderly she offered what few others were willing to give - help. read more

• Student took drugs after mixing with new crowd

  STUDENT Samer Alali got hooked on drugs after mixing with a different crowd when he moved to a new school, a court heard. read more

• Youth's life turned around by fat camp

  TEENAGER Darren Debono said that beating the bulge at a pioneering camp has helped turn his life around. read more

• £4m overhaul planned for UCI cinema

  FILM-buffs could see their cinema undergo a transformation in a £4 million refurbishment. read more

• Friends alert police to possible suicide bid

  POLICE have praised a group of young people who alerted them to a man who appeared to be about to kill himself. read more

• Look who's Talking: A myth is as good as a mile of the truth

  As I drove into Wycombe this week, I followed a car that sported not nodding dogs in the back window, (remember them?) but a CD dangling from the rear view mirror. read more

• Campaigners welcome road improvements

  CAMPAIGNERS who have fought for ten years for safety measures on a busy road have welcomed the start of a £300,000 scheme. read more

• CCTV may be used to stop park vandalism

  TOWN councillors have renewed calls for CCTV to be installed near a skateboard park to curb a wave of vandalism. read more

• Railway Protests are way off line

  Re: Central Railway plan read more

• All Gipsies want is equal rights

  Re: travellers and Gipsies read more

• Column jogs memories of school - from 30 years back

  A PICTURE of Marsh Infants School in High Wycombe in 1970, published in our sister paper, Midweek, jogged the memories of former pupils and their mothers. read more

• Friends back together 60 years later

  TWO Land Army friends met again for the first time in 60 years thanks to the Bucks Free Press. read more

On this day: Buckinghamshire Archive