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  • Urban Legends

    THIS pair of BBC Radio One DJs don't really need an introduction. However, you do need to know they're in High Wycombe's Time nightclub on the Octagon Parade, during the next two weeks. Billed as Urban Legends. Part One kicks off on Wednesday, December

  • West Wycombe Caves

    JUDGING by the cavernous surroundings seen in this picture, these people were visiting the Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe. We do not have a date for this photography nor do we know who these people are. So if you can shed some light on these dark tunnels

  • Hot on the heels of fire

    WITH three massive fires in the region in the space of three weeks, the fire service has hardly been out of the headlines. First Wycombe Ski Centre on November 22, then High Wycombe rail station five days later, and now the immense fire at Buncefield

  • ‘I was sitting on the edge of the ceiling’

    THE massive plume of smoke from the Buncefield oil depot explosion blackened skies across the High Wycombe area after the blaze erupted on Sunday, December 11. The explosion which rocked Hemel Hempstead and shocked the surrounding towns and villages

  • Gorman: Let’s bounce back from Bury defeat immediately

    BLUES boss John Gorman has called on his shell-shocked team to bounce straight back from their last-gasp defeat at Bury by knocking Paul Merson's Walsall out of the LDV Vans Trophy tonight. The Blues travel to the Bescot Stadium still reeling from their

  • ‘Shame’ on light thieves

    A LITTLE boy with a terminal brain tumour woke up on Sunday morning to find Christmas decorations bought to cheer him up had been stolen. Brave Nathan Austin, six, has been battling cancer for four years. Mum Lucy Austin had decided to make this Christmas

  • Charities banned from outside store

    THE poor takings of this year's Lions Club Christmas collection have been blamed on the "Scrooge-like" attitude of Waitrose which would not let the charitable group continue with its tradition of collecting outside the store. Every Christmas, for more

  • Wine theft ‘a professional job’

    A RETIRED couple believe they were the targets of professional burglars after their £1,000 wine collection was taken just weeks before Christmas. Geoffrey and Winifred Clayton increased security in their home following two devastating burglaries in 2003

  • Marlow Memories

    THE staff at Sir William Borlase's School, West Street, in the Spring of 1948. Back row: G. A. Dewhurst, G.E. Rands, F.J. Davies, C.B. Davenport, F.W. Pierce, A.K. Thomas, R.M. Pitman. Front row: W.O. Robertson, J.C. Davies, W.S. Booth (Headteacher)

  • ‘Yobs won’t defeat us’

    A FAMILY in Marlow Bottom who decorate their home in lights for charity have defied vandals who threatened to end their Christmas tradition. Tony and Jancis Shepherd, of Hill Farm Road, have raised thousands of pounds in donations for the South Bucks

  • Young athletes recognised

    GRANDSTAND presenter Steve Rider has praised pupils at Great Marlow School at an award evening for promising young athletes. The BBC's successor to Des Lynam handed out the prizes at the Bobmore Lane school's sports ceremony in November and entertained

  • Christmas comes early for Marlow widower

    A WIDOWER has been reunited with a copy of a Max Bygraves album that he and his late wife enjoyed, thanks to an appeal in the Free Press. Tony Falconer, 75, of Finnamore Wood, Marlow, appealed to readers to help him find a copy of his favourite Max

  • St Peter’s pupils learn more about their local newspaper

    PUPILS from a Marlow school enjoyed a visit to the Free Press offices in Loudwater last week to see where their paper comes from and how it is made. A group from St Peter's Catholic Primary School, in Prospect Road, met the editorial team on Tuesday

  • Post office at risk from store closure

    THE search is on to find new post office premises after the Co-Op shop in Oak Tree Road announced plans to close in January. Four part-timers will lose their jobs when the Co-op closes on January 7. Co-Op bought the lease for the convenience store

  • Green light for crossing

    A LITTLE Marlow school should still get a zebra crossing, despite fears not enough people would use it. Claytons Combined School, just off Marlow Road, has been campaigning for a crossing to allow pupils to cross safely. The crossing was planned for

  • ‘Is this the solution to our stinky streets?’

    THAMES Water has announced £2.5million plans to improve Little Marlow sewage works and stop bad smells escalating in the village. The latest announcement came at Little Marlow Parish Council's meeting on Tuesday,December 13th, with work expected to start

  • Man overdosed after night out

    A MARLOW man injected himself with more than double the usually lethal amount of heroin, an inquest heard. Stephen Herbert John Morley, 43, had been out with friends and returned to a house in Roberts Road, High Wycombe, where he took the fatal hit,

  • Passengers boosted by £350,000 bus service

    A HALF-HOURLY bus to the east and north of Marlow is to be launched next year on a trial basis. Marlow town councillors said the £350,000 project would give people a regular service six days a week between 7.30am and 6.30pm, increasing the service from

  • We surrendered without a fight

    SKIPPER Roger Johnson tore into his teammates as Wanderers' 21-match unbeaten record came to a sticky end at Gigg Lane. He accused some of them of surrendering without a fight and said Bury's battlers were not good enough to end the longest surviving