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Beat the burglars
10:01am Friday 28th November 2008
AS Inspector for the Wycombe Rural neighbourhoods I would like to bring an issue to the attention of your readers.
Comments (0)A tremendous loss
10:02am Friday 28th November 2008
MEMBERS of Beaconsfield Concerts were sorrowed to hear that their Honorary President, Richard Hickox CBE, suffered a suspected heart attack while conducting a rehearsal in Cardiff and passed away on Sunday, November 23 2008. This is a tremendous loss for the world of music and particularly for British music.
It's a sign of waste
10:04am Friday 28th November 2008
WITH reference to the photograph in your November 14 ‘Talking Point’ letter, can there currently be a more useless council sign than ‘Street Lighting Not In Use’?
Why didn't he move?
10:06am Friday 28th November 2008
HAD I felt as strongly as does Paul Matthews (‘11+ is an evil system’ – Letters 14th November), I would long ago have moved to an area where the education facilities were more to my liking.
It's surprising there are so few accidents
9:55am Friday 28th November 2008
RE: Speed cameras and the smoking.
Stop circus acts
9:57am Friday 28th November 2008
ANIMAL Defenders International (ADI) calls upon Wycombe District Council to save animals from suffering, and reject a proposal to permit circuses with performing animals.
Parking rules could make drinkers drive
10:00am Friday 28th November 2008
WHILST sympathetic to the new parking wardens who have been brought in to Marlow to help the poor drivers of four-wheel drive vehicles who seem not to understand the meaning of double yellow lines, we were shocked on a Sunday morning to see wardens slapping tickets on cars which had evidently been left in car parks on Saturday night.
'I'm off to the tower'
9:53am Friday 28th November 2008
I AM writing to say a fond farewell to High Wycombe after many years of being involved with a multitude of community organisations.
Darkness and gifts – a lure for burglars
10:39am Tuesday 25th November 2008
As Inspector for the Wycombe Rural neighbourhoods I would like to bring an issue to the attention of your readers.
It's an age-old fact
10:22am Friday 21st November 2008
I READ with interest the letter by Anthony Weeden (November 7). Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit is obviously simple, but finding the age of the Earth was very difficult and also contentious.
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