A TOTALLY focussed Wasps side won a place in the semi-finals of the Parker Pen Challenge Cup on Saturday. The 27-12 win at Stade Francais, Paris, followed a 35-22 home win the weekend before. In the first half, the referee was giving penalties away left
A BORE draw on Saturday saw Thame fail to recover from last week's cup exit when they were held 0-0 at home to bottom-club Hertford in an insipid Ryman Division One North game. The match had seemed ideal for Thame to bounce back from their 3-2 defeat
ANTI-GRAMMAR school campaigners took their fight to Westminster yesterday in an effort to get the government to take action. The campaign launch was chaired by Buckinghamshire Labour county councillor Clare Martens from High Wycombe. She said: "We feel
HERE are the results of games involving local Ryman League teams on Saturday. Premier Division: Braintree Town 1-2 Chesham United Divison One North: Marlow 4-3 Aveley Thame United 0-0 Hertford Town Division Two: Witham Town 0-0 Flackwell Heath January
WYCOMBE Wanderers extended their unbeaten run to four games with unlikely heroes Richard Harris and Steve Brown grabbing the goals in a bad tempered match. The visitors started the better of the two sides with good chances falling to Wayne Andrews and
BIG Brother is finally on its way to Princes Risborough after months of discussion between council leaders and complaints from residents. Cllr John Coombs, chairman of Princes Risborough Town Council, has revealed he is expecting money from Buckinghamshire
THE Anthony Nolan Trust is looking for readers who want to run in their team in the 2003 Flora London Marathon. The trust wants runners (those with an entry as well as those still needing a place) to contact them. The marathon takes place on April 13.
IN his Straight Talking column last week Kris Hall said he couldn't find decent bargain shoes in Wycombe. There are still bargains in Wycombe the Oxford to Cambridge coach, the Heathrow coach and rail to London and Birmingham. Why doesn't Kris take one
GENEROUS families of Prestwood Infant School pupils dug deep in the run up to Christmas to raise cash for two charities founded by previous pupils of the school. Some £270 was raised for the XP Support Group and the Thomas Ball Children's Cancer and Fund
CHILDREN in Buckinghamshire are being urged to Hold their Tongues for Macmillan Cancer Relief. Teachers, parents and youth group leaders can register for the national ten-minute silence on February 7 which is sponsored by Nationwide Building Society.
TWO soldiers from the High Wycombe regiment are being called up to go to Afghanistan. Lee Adams, 25, from Church End, Bledlow, and Mark Anderson, 31, from Slough, are busy training in preparation for the journey with the High Wycombe TA Royal Green Jackets
GREEN Goddesses are again on stand-by after the latest round of pay talks between Buckinghamshire's firefighters and their employers ended in stalemate. Archaic replacement fire engines manned by army personnel are poised for action with 24-hour strike
GOLF: Beaconsfield golfer Luke Donald fialed to make the cut in the latest US PGA golf tournament. Donald shot a 73 in the first round of the tournament in Hawaii to be off the pace. And a second round score of 71 was not enough to put him back in contention
ANTI-GRAMMAR school campaigners took their fight to Westminster yesterday in an effort to get the government to take action. The campaign launch was chaired by Buckinghamshire Labour county councillor Clare Martens from High Wycombe. She said: "We feel
WORRIED Rainbows fear their fun-filled Saturday meetings will finish unless a new leader is found fast. Hannah Pool, leader of the 1st Bourne End Rainbow Guides, will leave the helm of the popular Saturday group in five weeks and unless someone steps
IT is quite obvious that Cllr David Shakespeare is trying to soften the blow of a massive 12 per cent increase in council tax by seeking the views of householders. It is also certain that, no matter how many object, the rise will still be applied. Our
I AM writing, most unhappily, to ask for the cooperation of readers and your newspapper in questioning this Government's seemingly irresistible drive towards involvement in a new Middle Eastern war. As a strong supporter of most of New Labour's achievements
LATEST housing figures I found spread across my desk last week have confirmed my fears we're living in the most over-priced place in the country. When I first took on the task of highlighting the town's countless flaws, bringing them to the attention
IF there is a moral from what I'm about to say, I guess it would be: Don't ever ever get out of your car in Beaconsfield. Working at the weekend, I was forced to make a trip to Beaconsfield. Unfortunately I made the trip without any advance planning,
GENEROUS families of Prestwood Infant School pupils dug deep in the run up to Christmas to raise cash for two charities founded by previous pupils of the school. Some £270 was raised for the XP Support Group and the Thomas Ball Children's Cancer and Fund
CHILDREN in Buckinghamshire are being urged to Hold their Tongues for Macmillan Cancer Relief. Teachers, parents and youth group leaders can register for the national ten-minute silence on February 7 which is sponsored by Nationwide Building Society.
A 65-METRE run and try by winger Kenny Logan saw Wasps go within two games of their first ever Eupoean final. Wasps beat Stade Francais 27-12 in Stade's own backyard to go through 67-44 on aggregate and set up a semi-final against Pontypridd. It was a
MOTHER Liz Dudley plans to trek across the Sahara desert in the blistering heat in a bid to raise cash for a centre which she says transformed her disabled son's life. The gruelling Sahara Desert Challenge is Liz's way of saying thank you to the Positive
KEVIN Franklin hit the bar as Flackwell Heath drew 0-0 at Witham Town on Saturday. January 20, 2003 13:30
MARLOW left it late to record a win in a seven-goal thriller at home to Aveley. The Oak Tree Roaders took the lead on 12 minutes when Robert Gibson touched home. But the lead only lasted five minutes when Tommy Lee equalised with a header. John Isaac
GARY Abbott scored in the first minute of his Chesham debut as the Meadow Men recorded their second straight league victory with an important 2-1 win over Braintree. The result keeps Chesham clear of the relegation area, earning the Meadow Men breathing
A BORE draw on Saturday saw Thame fail to recover from last week's cup exit when they were held 0-0 at home to bottom-club Hertford in an insipid Division One North game. The match had seemed ideal for Thame to bounce back from their 3-2 defeat to Windsor
ATHLETICS: Handy Cross Runners retained the Highworth half marathon trophy on Sunday. The runners put in another superb display to triumph, with the winning team of Trevor Hunter, Alfred Benjamin, John Dooey, Peter Edington and Alex Richmond helping the
THE founder of a global friendship network has retired from working in its High Wycombe office and takes with her a wealth of memories from a world of friendship. Frances Alexander, Liberal Democrat High Wycombe Mayor from 1998 to 1999, has been the driving
A SCHOOLGIRL will be heading for TV fame when she appears in a comedy series next month. Emma Sackville, 13, of Plomer Green Lane, Downley is to appear in BBC comedy 'My Dad's the Prime Minister' which is written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. The Wycombe
