A HIGH Wycombe householder disturbed a burglar who stole jewellery. The occupant of the Curzon Avenue home found the male climbing in through a first floor window on Sunday at about 7pm. Police said: “On being disturbed the offender
I started my working life in London. It was not a choice of my own making, simply a result of the way that ‘life’ arranges things. Prior to any experience of work, my life was spent in a quiet market town in the heart of the Country. Whilst my
MANCHESTER United reserve keeper Tom Heaton has joined Wycombe Wanderers on loan until the end of the season. The 23-year-old is expected to go straight into the side for tomorrow's trip to Brentford in place of Scott Shearer who was beaten four times
A SUSPECTED arson attack destroyed a derelict building in Chesham this morning. Fire crews battled the blaze on Berkhampstead Road from 2.20am and were still at the scene this afternoon to make sure the fire was completely out. They said the two
THREE men have been jailed for a total of 18 years and nine months after an armed robbery at a video store in Hazlemere. Paul Barzey, aged 23, Troy Tutin, aged 21, and 20-year-old Alexander Davies, all from Slough, were sentenced at Reading
DEFENDER Adam Hinshelwood has been ruled out for the next four matches – and Wanderers are now hunting a loan replacement. A scan on Monday revealed bone bruising to the injury-jinxed centre half’s knee. The former England U21 centre
KIERAN Mann says it’s a straight fight between High Wycombe RFC and Marlow RFC for the South West 1 East play-off spot this year. The Wycombe centre helped his side to an eight-try demolition of Oakmeadians on Saturday and with Marlow also winning convincingly
A REFUSE company has been fined £130,000 after a Wycombe man died when a bin fell on his head. David Ives, 56, was working for Veolia ES (UK) Ltd - formerly known as Onyx UK Ltd – when he was killed collecting rubbish outside The Mole &
FEWER Buckinghamshire patients have access to an NHS dentist than when much heralded reforms were introduced almost four years ago, bosses said today. In December 41 per cent of people had access – down from 43 per cent when a new contract
ROB Webber is confident he will force his way into the full England squad – he just hopes it’s in time for the World Cup. The 23-year-old Wasp is now a regular feature in the Saxons side and was back at Wasps this week after helping England’s second
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A GERRARDS Cross pub that closed in 2007 is set to be bulldozed to make way for a care home. Developers Runwood Homes has won planning permssion to demolish the former French Horn pub on Oxford Road and build a 53-bed residential care home.
THE work of an organisation which helps to commemorate the war dead will be shown at High Wycombe library next week. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission will be attending a ‘Family and Local History Afternoon’ on Wednesday, February 17.
WYCOMBE star Isa Guha’s remarkable year just gets better and better. After helping the England women’s cricket team to become double world champions last year, she was named British Asian Sports Personality of the Year in front of 3,000 guests at a plush
A SENIOR Conservative hit out at an independent assessment which gave his council an “adequate” rating - saying a neighbouring council did not deserve a better score. The Audit Commission gave South Bucks District Council a lower score than
WASPS back Lee Smith is a man in a rush. The countdown to the season’s climax has begun and he doesn’t want to miss it. Wasps might be out of the LV Cup, but the 22-year-old is thinking about the Guinness Premiership play-offs and the
WASN’T it nice to see senior councillors helping to chop off Bill Pollard’s beard for charity? Bill, manager of the Chilterns Shopping Centre in High Wycombe, raised a stack of cash for the air ambulance by having his legendary whiskers shaved just over
I BOUGHT Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar for £7, and then swooped for Hull’s Kevin Kilbane for £1.69. But my £6 bid for Liverpool’s Fernando Torres was unsuccessful at the time of going to press. You must think I’m going barmy and I am
Councillors say we pressmen always knock things and have no ideas of our own, so here are my recommendations for the A40 London Road, in the event I am ever elected to power: ul class="unlist">1. Scrap the bus lane immediately – it’s just not needed;
I COUNT myself as a very moral upright person who would never cheat on my wife and would never condone the idea of others being unfaithful. I also heartily endorse the idea that public role models should not act in a scandalous way. However, the whole
THE more I drive on High Wycombe’s London Road, the more I think someone dreamed up the design as an April Fool’s joke. This road is actually the main route in to a very large town. Yet it remains an utter embarrassment as well as a total hindrance to
ONE of the less attractive tendencies of current public and corporate life is the disinclination of those who squat at the top of the greasy pole to face up to the consequence of the buck stopping in their immediate vicinity. Take the bankers who clung
THIS newspaper has been one of the fiercest critics of the county council over the spate of potholes on our roads which are driving motorists crazy. So it gives us some pleasure this week to congratulate councillors for their U-turn on their repair budget
ANTHONY Weeden has the measure of this vital topic. Once we dismiss the ludicrous idea that the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide in any concentrations mankind can generate has much more than a marginal effect in controlling the world’s climate, and
A YEAR ago (February 13, 2009) Anthony Weeden claimed in your columns that there has been a decade of cooling. You ran a letter of mine requesting him to justify this claim. He did not respond and has now stated that ‘there is a distinct cooling trend
RE: Letters from Anthony Weeden, a correspondent who insists man-made global warming is scientifically unproven. ANTHONY Weeden’s letter in your February 5th issue is typical of his selective “science”. Does he respond to my challenge to provide
WHAT has happened to the dog owners of late I wonder? It seems that the snow falls we have had recently affected some owners’ minds, and has led them to believe that due to deep snow they were not responsible for clearing up their pets’ mess, or thought
WE are the members of a discussion group, all living in south Bucks, who meet seven or eight times a year for an evening of serious discussion of a question, problem or book. Recently we considered the idea, new to us, that among developed countries
RE: Council may invest millions in new stadium for Wasps/Wycombe Wanderers – BFP, January 29. IS this the same council that has invested millions in now failed Icelandic banks and who perplexingly plan to move the park and ride facility to the sports
YOUR recent article ‘Wycombe District Council may invest millions in new stadium’ raises the question what do Wasps bring to High Wycombe that makes Wycombe District Council so desperate to keep them here? The only answer that I have been given so far
I HAVE been a resident of High Wycombe for more than 40 years. For the vast majority of that time, the same political party has been in power. Their inability to deliver services to the over-burdened taxpayer is staggering. This is the same council that
RE: Look Who’s Talking column, January 29, headlined ‘I landed in hole load of trouble’. COLIN Baker, and other road users who have suffered vehicle damage from potholes should know that claims can be made against the local authority provided the
TODAY, I drove over to my firm's offices in Thame for a couple of meetings. During the first part of the journey, I was swerving around the potholes in the roads like a drunken man but, shortly after I crossed into Oxfordshire, it struck me that the
I REFER to what currently some might describe as the disgraceful state of many roads in Buckinghamshire, especially in and around the High Wycombe area. The massive increase in the reporting of incidents of damage to vehicles and personal injury
A LOUDWATER gym looks set to reopen after a member made a last ditch bid to stop its weights and fitness machines being auctioned. Chris Summers, 47, who lives in Loudwater, bought the full contents of the The Fitness Studio on Treadaway Hill
While Eric Alexander is asking for evidence sources from man made climate change sceptics, letters 22/1, could one ask again for explanations from the protagonists? As far as I am aware the scientists from the “man made” lobby do not dispute
GARY Waddock ordered his players to stay out on the pitch after last Saturday’s 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Yeovil – because he needed time to calm down. The furious boss instructed his team to remain there in front of the fans while he and his assistant
FORMULA One champion Damon Hill was in Marlow last night to present the Bucks Enterprise Awards. A glitzy ceremony at the Crown Plaza Hotel celebrated business in Buckinghamshire - described last night as "the entrepreneurial heart of Britain
FOOTBALL fans will be pulling on their hiking boots to help raise money to fund the re-build of a British Legion club destroyed by fire. The Chesham branch of the Royal British Legion was gutted in an arson attack in May last year. A fundraising
THE Bourne End mother-in-law of tragic Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy has spoken of her devastation at her death. Read the full story only in this week's Bucks Free Press.
WANDERERS boss Gary Waddock could toss rookie keeper Steve Arnold a first start tomorrow against the club that rejected him. The Blues boss says every role in his team is under consideration as he tries to shake up his team following last week’s 4-
AARON Couch has gone back to square one in a bid to breathe new life into his dreams of becoming a professional footballer. The 21-year-old rejoined Marlow on Tuesday after a morale-sapping experience at AFC Totton and hopes the step back will lead to
ON Wednesday Wasps director of rugby Tony Hanks said the following things: 1: “We’ve really targeted the next four games.” 2: “The next four games are really important to us.” 3: “It’s a good opportunity for us over the next four
A FUNDRAISER is saddling up ready to cycle from one end of Africa to the other in aid of charity. Lindsey Cole set off on her mammoth 8,000 mile journey from Cairo to Cape Town this week – along with three people who responded to her plea for
