Neighbourhood Watch AGM

1:17pm Wednesday 27th May 2009

The Annual General meeting of the Wycombe District Neighbourhood Watch Association, is to be held at St. Birinus & St John's Church, on the corner of Cressex Road and Sycamore Road, Booker, on Wednesday 3rd June, starting at 7:30pm.

Car boot sales are back on the Common

5:22pm Thursday 21st May 2009

Rain just held off for the first car boot sale of the year on May bank holiday and we hope for a lovely day for the next sale on Monday. After two very disappointing years when car boot sales on the Common were either rained off or prevented from happening by the anti-terrorist police activity in the area we hope that the sun will shine on us this year so that support for these popular sales will quickly climb back to its previous levels.

Booker Common & Woods Protection Society

9:02am Wednesday 13th May 2009

Booker Common & Woods Protection Society holds its AGM at Booker Memorial Hall on Tuesday, May 19th, at 8pm.

Booker Memorial Hall

8:49am Wednesday 13th May 2009

Booker Memorial Hall's AGM will be at 8pm on Monday, May 18th. The Hall is a community amenity and the Management Committee needs ideas for events and facilities that local people can enjoy and use. It also needs new members to help with the continued running of the Hall. Whether you can spare time to help or have ideas to contribute do go along to the Hall on Monday evening. Your attendance will be rewarded with cheese and wine at the end of the meeting.

Save Our Post Office

12:34pm Thursday 16th April 2009

Are you concerned that our local post office may close when One Stop is replaced by Tesco Express? Save Our Post Office petitions are now available for you to sign in local shops, including Impressions hair salon and Amelia Flowers

Another brilliant Spring Show

11:41am Friday 10th April 2009

Once again the Memorial Hall was filled with colour at Booker & District Horticultural Society's Spring Show last Saturday. The weather may seem to us to have been a bit mixed but it certainly suited all the spring flowers and shrubs. The flower arrangers excelled themselves too. In this, the Society's 60th anniversary year, the floral art classes reflected anniversaries ranging from wood (5 years) up to sparkling diamond displays. In addition, there were craft items, photographs and delicious baked cakes, biscuits and pies on display.

Spring show

9:17am Wednesday 1st April 2009

Booker & District Horticultural Society holds its Spring Show at the Memorial Hall on Saturday. As well as spring flowers, there will be floral art, crafts, photography and delicious cakes and biscuits on show. Go along to the Hall on Saturday afternoon from 2pm to see the glorious displays. Entrance is free.

Easter services

5:52pm Tuesday 31st March 2009

With Easter fast approaching, you may like to make a note of the times of the special Easter church services. At St Birinus & St John's on Palm Sunday, April 5th, there will be Communion and Distribution of Palms at both the 9.00am and 10.45am services. An Iona Celebration of Communion with Foot Washing will be held at 8pm on Maundy Thursday, followed by the Watch until 11pm. Proclamation of the Cross will take place at 10am on Good Friday with Last Hour Meditation at 2pm. Easter Day will see Communion and Worship Together Communion at the usual times of 9am and 10.45am. The final special service of the Easter season will be Easter Songs of Praise at 2pm on Friday, April 17th.

Remember to keep your shed locked

3:21pm Thursday 26th March 2009

People in this area are among those who have recently been the victims of burglaries in which the break-in was effected using garden tools. Do remember that thieves can take advantage of unlocked sheds for this purpose as well as for stealing valuable tools. You may also be interested to know that battery powered shed alarms are available from Neighbourhood Watch.

Can we save our post office?

10:55am Thursday 26th March 2009

You are probably aware that the development taking place behind the fencing around what was the Turnpike pub is to be a Tesco Express store. What you may not have realised, however, is that the opening of the Tesco Express will mean the closure of the existing One Stop store and with it the closure of our local post office. This will mean that our nearest post office will be at Castlefield, which is not convenient for anyone who relies on walking or using the bus to get to the post office. The alternatives will be the main High Wycombe PO, with its attendant queues, or a bus ride to Lane End.

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