I inherited our shed from my mum who inherited it from her grandfather. Having carefully housed three generations of Blamey garden ‘gubbins’, last week I looked out at our tired, saggy roofed shed squatting at the bottom of our garden and decided that
PRINCES Risborough town council offices will be moved at the beginning of July. The current offices in Horns Lane, above the Tourist Information Centre, will be moved to the newly named Princes Centre in Clifford Road. The Princes Risborough
PENN and Tylers Green residents came together to carry their own Olympic torch 60 miles from London. Scores of runners completed a 60 mile relay from the Olympic Park to Tylers Green Village Hall as part of the village's Diamond Jubilee celebrations
ORGANISERS and street party-goers celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee over the long weekend are being urged to ensure their events are not memorable for the wrong reasons. Jason Thelwell, Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service's director
STUDENT Matthew Watkins was relaxing at home with friends last week and everything seemed alright in the world - until this beast crashed the party. The giant brown bug swooped into the creative advertising student’s home in Peterborough Avenue
FROM 11TH JUNE YOUR LOCAL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU WILL BE CHANGING THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBER TO 0844 245 1289. We will still provide the same professional service so don't worry. We help people every day to solve their problems on a wide range of issues
BURGLARS broke into Pinewood film studios and stole recording equipment worth about £200,000. Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened in the early hours of yesterday morning. Officers said the offenders gained entry to
CONCERNS have been raised about a planning application to convert the former Princes Risborough delivery office into flats. At last night's Princes Risborough Town Council meeting Cllr Will Streule said the development could change the commercial aspect
HUNDREDS of doctors in Buckinghamshire are set to go on strike for the first time in nearly 40 years, in protest at the Government's controversial pension reforms. The British Medical Association (BMA) has “very reluctantly” voted for industrial
THE Mayor of Princes Risborough Eunice Clifford went out on a high as she retired from her post. Last night at the town council meeting she said she would not stand again after her year in office. Just the day before she had overseen proceedings
KAYE Townsend is a qualified, BACP registered, person-centred counsellor with a private practice in Flackwell Heath, Bucks. She is currently writing a self-help book, write articles for various publications & work as a volunteer counsellor for
I WAS most impressed by James Cadle’s letter in the Free Press on April 27 (“Doctrine of love has been perverted into intolerance”). Is it not incredible that in the 21st Century there are still people who look upon homosexuality as a sin? Once-a-upon-a-time
TO mark this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (21 – 27 May), I would like to share the story about my struggle with depression – and the life-saving support I got from Buckinghamshire’s NHS talking therapies service Healthy Minds. I was diagnosed
A RABBIT has been left traumatised after being thrown from a moving car in Loudwater over the weekend. The RSPCA has launched an investigation into the incident and is now caring for the animal. The animal welfare charity fear the rabbit
WANDERERS are only waiting Matt Bloomfield now after Charles Dunne became the fifth of six players offered new deals to sign on the dotted line. The 19-year-old left back put pen to paper on a one-year deal on Tuesday, joining Gareth Ainsworth, Anthony
I AM not quite sure what possessed me to go and see Derren Brown perform his Svengali show as all I could expect was the unexpected and my understanding was that this is a man who can truly produce the extraordinary. This being said I have always
MARLOW mum Sam Amend has all but given up on her dream of running at London 2012. The 32-year-old ran a personal best of 35 minutes in the Manchester 10k last week and stormed to victory in the Marlow 5 earlier this month. But the mother-of-two
A MOGUL of the IT world returned to the place where his journey to success began – his old school. Michael Acton Smith went back to Danesfield primary school in Henley Road to unveil a major new suite filled with the latest computer technology
