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  • Towsend goes on loan to Woking

    BEN Townsend has joined Woking on a month's loan. The Adams Park right back, who has just battled back to fitness after injury, made his debut for the Cardinals in their 2-1 victory over Kettering Town in the Vauxhall Conference on Saturday. Woking made

  • Ex-Wanderer fined for assault after brawl at Wycombe nightclub

    FORMER Wycombe Wanderers player Dennis Greene has been branded "reckless" by a judge after he injured a bouncer in a drunken rage. Greene, now manager at Ryman League Windsor and Eton FC, was thrown out of High Wycombe's popular Time nightclub, after

  • Wycombe High pupil to star in new TV comedy

    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

  • Football: Weather hits South Bucks Youth League

    ONLY three fixtures survived the weather in the third round of the South Bucks Youth League Cup on Sunday. Wendover Juniors went down 4-2 to Burnham Wildcats while Burnham Tigers triumphed 3-2 over Hedsor Social Club. In the Subsidiary Cup, the Golden

  • Hockey: Marlow ease through

    MARLOW cruised into the fourth round of the Hockey England National Vase Knock-Out with a 3-0 victory over Hampshire side, Petersfield, when they met at Bisham on Sunday. The Bucks side were pushed onto the back foot for the first 15 minutes, as Petersfield's

  • Factory severely damaged in blaze

    FLAMES left a wake of destruction estimated at many thousands of pounds, after ripping through a large section of a Wooburn factory. The blaze, which firefighters believe started in a ground floor extraction unit, devastated a tool making department at

  • Robin Hood helps children with lessons

    PUPILS sat entranced during a performance of Robin Hood at their school. Around 120 pupils at Frieth School, Shogmoor Lane, enjoyed the pantomime which took place at the school last Monday. M & M Productions' theatre company's took on the traditional

  • Couple rescued from blaze

    FIREFIGHTERS rescued a couple and their dog from a High Wycombe house following a fire at the property in the early hours of Saturday morning. Three fire crews from High Wycombe station raced to the scene after reports that people were trapped in a downstairs

  • Army on fire duty again

    GREEN Goddesses are again on stand-by after the latest round of pay talks between Buckinghamshire's firefighters and their employers ended in a stalemate. Archaic replacement fire engines manned by army personnel are poised for action with 24-hour strike

  • Staff evacuated as fire ripped through factory

    FLAMES left a wake of destruction estimated at many thousands of pounds, after ripping through a large section of a Wooburn factory. The blaze, which firefighters believe started in a ground floor extraction unit, devastated a tool making department at

  • Are you in this 1980s picture?

    PARENTING classes seem to start at ever younger ages these days. Those of us at Midweek are guessing this photograph was taken in the early 1980s and believe the ages of the children watching a woman and the baby are about five or six. The baby being

  • Midweek fixtures

    HERE are the tonight's fixtures involving local teams (Tues): Premier Division: Chesham v Grays Division One North: Hemel Hempstead v Thame Marlow v Uxbridge Associate Members Cup: Chalfont St Peter v Leighton Wokingham v Flackwell Heath All matches kick

  • Match reaction: Pitch brawl changed the game

    OLDHAM boss Iain Dowie says he regrets not substituting Julien Baudet after he was involved in a pitch brawl just before half time and was then sent off for a horror tackle when he came back on the pitch. Oldham were leading 1-0 after a near post header

  • Emma plays PM's daughter in new TV comedy

    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

  • Ex-Wanderer in club brawl

    FORMER Wycombe Wanderers player Dennis Greene has been branded "reckless" by a judge after he injured a bouncer in a drunken rage. Greene, now manager at Ryman League Windsor and Eton FC, was thrown out of High Wycombe's popular Time nightclub, after

  • Fire crew rescue man from wreckage

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to the scene of a road traffic accident after reports of trapped passengers following a two-car smash. Two crews, from Chesham and Amersham, attended the accident in Latimer Road, at the junction of Hollow Way Lane, Chesham, shortly

  • Call for action on town centre bus route

    A WORRIED pensioner is appealing for buses to stop using a High Wycombe town centre road as a "rat run" as he believes it is causing a danger to the public. James Chamberlen, 74, of Stonefield Road, High Wycombe, has complained to Buckinghamshire County

  • Pride nail gun man gets caution

    A MAN has escaped with a caution after entering a popular High Wycombe pub brandishing a loaded nail gun and threatening to use it. Onlookers described how six police cars and a riot van quickly arrived on Thursday after reports of a man sitting in The

  • Teenager blasts council as 'frustrating'

    THE chairman of Chesham's youth council, Karen Wright, has blasted town councillors for allowing party politics to influence the authority's decision making process. The 17-year-old criticised councillors, branding them indecisive and frustrating after

  • Families provide for those in need

    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

  • Bad-tempered draw: Wycombe 2 -2 Oldham Athletic

    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

  • Wasps wait for news over Pontypridd clash

    WASPS will find out this afternoon when they will play Welsh side Pontypridd in the semi-final of the Parker Pen Challenge Cup. The two-legged semi-final is due to be played over the weekends of April 12-13 and April 26-27, with a draw taking place to

  • Premiership scouts drawn to Adams Park by ex-Chesham player

    SCOUTS from Premiership clubs swelled the crowd at Adams Park on Saturday to watch £2million-rated Oldham player Fitz Hall in action. The former Chesham United player helped hold Wanderers to a 2-2 draw when he headed on for Tony Carss to salvage a late