Bucks Free Press: Audio news and podcasts from High Wycombe, Beaconsfield & Buckinghamshire

THE economy, and National Insurance in particular, again took centre stage in the election debate at the Marlow Hustings. Listen to the full debate here.

Click the player below to listen.

A COUNCIL stopped investing in an Icelandic bank three months after putting in £2.5m it is now fighting to get back, it was revealed this afternoon.

AN opposition councillor has blasted a council’s defence of why it invested £5m in an Icelandic bank.

THE former High Wycombe library could be turned into a modernist art gallery under a university student’s design that has been backed by council and conservation chiefs.

HE is a police officer who uses his imagination to dream up unorthodox ways to tackle crime. Now Steve Colgan, a member of Scotland Yard’s specialist team, the Problem Solving Unit, has launched a new career as an author.

SPORTING legends Lawrence Dallaglio and Trevor Brooking have received honorary doctorates from Buckinghamshire New University. The pair were handed their awards in recognition of their work with the High Wycombe university on the final day of graduation ceremonies.

FANTASY author and former Bucks Free Press reporter Terry Pratchett has woven his magic again - by scooping an honorary doctorate from Buckinghamshire New University. The Discworld novelist took to the stage at the Wycombe Swan with scores of other BNU students to accept the honour in recognition of his literary success.

LIBERAL Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable said the party can seize councils from traditional Tory rule when he visited Wycombe last night.The MP, who led the party while it elected a leader last year, said Labour had presided over growing inequality – and suggested local Conservatives were at odds with the “liberal minded” national party.

NUMBER one rockers Scouting For Girls swapped the heady lights of Glastonbury for a High Wycombe pub for a one off storming performance. The platinum-selling three piece headlined a mini-festival at O'Neils last night and got the crowd going with their upbeat, sing along set of top ten hits.