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• Beat officer hosts drop-in chats

  LANE End beat officer PC Lucy Price is holding a series of drop in sessions in the new year. read more

• Recycling trial launched

  MORE THAN 7,000 tonnes of rubbish need not end up in landfill sites if a recycling trial in South Bucks District Council proves successful. read more

• Town rallies round for disaster victims

  STREAMS of people stunned Oxfam shop workers with their generosity as they flocked in to give donations in support of victims of the Asian earthquake. read more

• Residents in lucky escape

  RESIDENTS living next door to a party shop had a lucky escape when a cash till caught fire in the building which also contained gas canisters. read more

• Another ‘good’ year for county council

  BUCKINGHAMSHIRE County Council has been rated as a good council in an end of term report by the Audit Commission. read more

• 'The sea rose up and smashed into the land'

  Nirj Deva, MEP, is a Sri Lankan born Member of the European Parliament, elected to represent the South-East region of England, which covers South Bucks. He is a member of the European Parliament's Development Committee. He was visiting his family in Colombo, Sri Lanka. read more

• From disaster to burglary

  AN ex-nurse who helped the Red Cross in Sri Lanka arrived home yesterday to find her house had been burgled. read more

• Family home destroyed

  A SRI LANKAN shop assistant has spoken of his parents' terrifying tsunami ordeal. read more

• Anonymous call told parents son was safe

  TERROR has turned to relief for a couple from Amersham whose son was scuba diving near the epicentre of Sunday's tsunami. read more

• Pub stubs out no smoke areas

  SMOKERS are celebrating a small victory after a popular High Wycombe pub scrapped its no-smoking area. read more

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