A TOWN celebrated 85 years of success at Bekonscot Model Village, today. Having been opened in 1929, the Beaconsfield tourist attraction has had more than 14 million visitors. Organisers were looking forward to welcoming residents and business
HAPPY Wanderers boss Gareth Ainsworth said his new-look side gave one of the most complete performances he’s seen from a side he’s managed – but said Blues have set the standard they have to match for the rest of the season. Clinical in front of
IN HONOUR of Bekonscot Model Village celebrating 85 years of being open this weekend, the Bucks Free Press takes a look at the top five South Bucks attractions. Bekonscot After being officially opened in 1929, Bekonscot was originally home
Newport County 0, Wycombe Wanderers 2. PETER Murphy scored on his Wanderers debut as Blues began the season with a comfortable win in Wales against Newport County. The former Accrington midfielder kept up the extraordinary streak of debutants
ALMOST 100 years ago to the day, The South Bucks Free Press (as it was known) published an editorial warning the outbreak of war could spread ‘disaster far and wide’. In the editorial piece on Friday, August 7, 1914, the SBFP said: “Wednesday last
AS incense burns and the lights dim on a smoky set, London’s Old Vic is transformed into Salem, 1692, for Yaël Farber’s spellbinding adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Sombre figures move eerily across a chair-littered stage. Among them is
THE clock is ticking down to the moment when students across Bucks discover their A Level results next Thursday - and with it the possible stress of finding a university place through the Clearing process. Elizabeth Pate, the Buckinghamshire New
A MAN had to be rescued from his home in Marlow this morning after a fire broke out in his living room, and he has now been taken to hospital. Firefighters said the man was suffering from the effects of breathing in smoke and three fire crews were
WEARING a football strip dedicated to Kyrece Francis will be like a twelfth man on the field as his teammates face the new season without him, according to the teenager's coach at the kit unveiling. Moved by the 13-year-old's tragic death last
A FRUSTRATED bed and breakfast owner in Marlow Bottom has become so fed up with potholes outside his business he decided to stop paying his council tax. Paul Simmons, who runs a B&B with his wife Sue on Hill Farm Road, says he has been trying
CONCERN is growing in neighbourhoods across the district ahead of a crunch council meeting over the possibility of building hundreds of houses on rural ‘reserve sites’. A public forum next Thursday is the first of two that will outline the "implications
