"I THINK it would be a very good thing if there was a six-month ban on private cars," Councillor Plumridge told members of Wycombe Rural Council on Monday. Councillor Plumridge, a bus user, was protesting at the council's agreement to a fares increase by Thames Valley and Aldershot Bus Company. "I get the impression that they don't care, and they grant the rises willy nilly. Once again, this council has not objected to a rise in fares and that is possibly because none of them use the buses," he said.

July 1948 A KEEN interest in radio since early childhood has brought recognition to 17-year-old Anthony Sale, of Lane End. In the television feature Teen-Age on Tuesday, Anthony demonstrated a robot man which he constructed and which goes through a series of almost human motions activated by remote control. Anthony is a student at Dulwich College, where he is a member of the Radio Club. His robot was exhibited during a recent Founders' Day at college, and television scouts soon got to hear of it.

July 1923 AT the Wycombe Borough Police Court on Friday, a kitchen porter, of no fixed abode, was brought up in custody on remand charged with breaking and entering a locked greengrocer shop. He stole coppers to the amount of three and six, one sixpenny piece, and foreign coins, total value being five and six. The greengrocer told the court that he had locked up that night and, in the morning, he found the shop door open and cupboards and drawers open. Various windows, doors, boxes and furniture had also been broken.

July 1898 ON Sunday, as Mr Frank Holtom was out collecting for the Wycombe Hospital Parade, at Kingshill, a toy dog flew at his leg. The animal's teeth tore through his trousers and pants and produced blood in the thick part of the leg. In the evening, Mr Holtom went to the doctor, in Oxford Road, and, although no danger was anticipated from the fact the dog had cleansed its teeth in biting through the clothing, Dr Bannerman treated the wound for the satisfaction of the sufferer, who we learn, is progressing favourably.

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