A MARLOW man has completed his mission to cycle from Land's End to John O' Groats to raise money for charity. John Spooner, 35, Barnhill Close, Marlow raised over £4,000 which is being split between the British Heart Foundation and the Youth Sport
GARY Waddock will get his players in for training on Saturday to make up for the cancellation of their first pre-season match. They were due to play Woking, but the game was called off a fortnight ago because the Conference South club said their Kingfield
A WINDOW cleaner looking for more than £2,000 to help pay for his wife's funeral has received a helping hand after a donation from a customer. Colin Bowden said he felt “let down by the system” after being refused funding to help pay for the
WANDERERS defender Adam Hinshelwood has not been given a squad number by Blues this season. The centre back who captained the team after joining from Aldershot in January is out of contract this summer, but manager Gary Waddock says there is
FIVE Bucks girls will be running for their lives at the English Schools Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Friday and Saturday. Wycombe High pupils Leah Barrow and Chloe Mays have perhaps the toughest challenge as they step up to the senior age
MORE than 200 people set up camp at Dorneywood last weekend as the 4th Beaconsfield Scout Group celebrated its 100th birthday. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts joined parents and siblings for the traditional camp, which group leader Richard Jones hailed “a
A FORMER prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and a BAFTA award-winning author were among the guests as pupils and staff at Chesham High School learned about what makes them unique. Lessons at the White Hill school were cancelled as students took
GRAEME Hick will lead a star-studded team to London Road on July 23, when the PCA Masters will take on Wycombe Warriors in match to raise funds for Scannappeal. Hick, one of the most gifted batsmen of his generation, will be joined by former England
ONE in five women had to give birth in Aylesbury after arriving at Wycombe Hospital’s soon-to-be closed birth centre, figures uncovered by The Bucks Free Press show. Of the 243 births due to take place at the hospital from November to May
MARLOW Park circa 2010 narrowly avoided the ignominy of setting the worst run in the club’s history by winning for the first time in a season and a half on Saturday. A century from Ash Butt plus fine bowling from Steve Ayres and Kim Barlow proved the
PENSIONERS who bought bricks to help build Bourne End day centre in the 1980s have expressed their fears over plans to close it. Last month Buckinghamshire County Council unveiled a proposal to shut and possibly sell off the centre – along
TWO homes were burgled in the Totteridge area of High Wycombe yesterday. A home in Totteridge Avenue was broken into between 11.15am and 5pm through an insecure first floor bathroom window. Two laptop computers, a digital camera and
THE number of teachers and schools staff earning more than £50,000 rose by 20 per cent in the year the recession bit, newly released figures show. An extra 65 staff, thought to be mostly headteachers, earned more than £50,000 in 2009/10, taking
NINE young ballet dancers made the front page of a French newspaper after they performed at a festival in Langres – Beaconsfield's French twin. There was a small front page photo of the girls with a picture spread inside the regional Le Journal
HIGH Wycombe-based Claire Strange has been nursing an injury for some time but the women’s wheelchair basketball player is fit and ready for the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, starting today in Birmingham. The 30-year-old, who has played
TWO nurseries in Beaconsfield have pulled out of the Government's free childcare place scheme - leaving parents to pay full costs or look for new places. From September, Hiawatha Montessori School and Oakwood Nursery will no longer offer free
THE following roads are set for pothole repairs today: Coronation Road, Cressex Chapel Lane, Sands West Wycombe Road, High Wycombe Penn Road, Hazlemere Birfield Road, Loudwater Watery Lane, Wooburn Moor
The following planning applications were received by south Buckinghamshire councils yesterday. To view Wycombe applications click here, for Chiltern applications click here and for South Bucks applications click here. You must accept the terms and
A BOARDED up pub which was formerly the iconic centrepiece of Marlow High Street will be back in business before the end of this month. The Chequers – which was labelled an 'eyesore' since closing two years ago - will reopen with new tenants
