THE majority of women in this country start off breastfeeding their baby but because we live in a culture that associates babies with bottle feeding, they don't always continue as long as they would like to. Images of bottle feeding are used visually
Ricky Richards is a game-keeper who has been coming to The Plough in West Wycombe since it reopened ten months ago. He and his friends reckon it knocks the socks off the other pubs in the area. What first attracted you and why do you keep coming
JAMIE Oliver really started something when he highlighted the unhealthy food being served up to so many children at school and sometimes at home too. Now the team at the Kings Arms Hotel in Stokenchurch have taken the message on board and overhauled their
HELL'S Kitchen lives on at Stoke Park Club this month and next, when Head Chef Chris Wheeler puts on a special menu using dishes from the recent TV reality show. But there's nothing hellish about returning from his temporary job as sous-chef to Jean-Christophe
Cic Upcott gives The Chiltern Society's response to new developments. In celebrating its 40 years' existence, there has been a delving into the past to see what has been happening over those years. The society was founded because of what was happening
Freda Miller, from Marlow Complementary Health Care, explains how herbal medicine can help digestive conditions. Food is essential to life and good digestion is the key to a healthy body and mind. Our digestive system exists to break food down efficiently
WHEN Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild commissioned a French architect to design his country home in Buckinghamshire, he didn't ask him to follow the trend of the time. Rather, he asked the architect to build his future retreat in the style of one of his
IF you have ever wondered what life was like during Second World War, a new exhibition at Wycombe Museum may be able to enlighten you. Through the War: Home Front Life commemorates 60 years since the end of the Second World War and features stories from
Since Gladiator, a barrage of bloodstained historical epics have filled the cinema screens. But you can have too much of a good thing as recent, lacklustre offerings like King Arthur and Alexander have proved. Yet with Gladiator director Ridley Scott
WASPS saved their best performance of the season for the Premiership Final as they beat Leicester Tigers with a devastating display of rugby. The Zurich Champions outplayed Tigers in every department. Wasps were tactically superior, deadly in execution
WANDERERS: Mansfield Town have joined Darlington and Wanderers in the race for Conference striker Charlie Griffin. Griffin, who scored 17 goals for Forest Green this season, is available on a free transfer after Forest Green allowed his contract to run
HOCKEY: The Cressex Synthetic Pitch Ladies Summer Hockey League got underway last week with Amersham & Chalfont A cruising to a 5-0 win over Phoenix Ranelagh. Helen Lloyds opened her summer season with a hat-trick and goals from Lynda Bullock and Rachael
Cricket: TITLE hopefuls High Wycombe came crashing back down to earth with a shock home defeat against Finchampstead on Saturday. The defeat, by three wickets, came just seven days after the Warriors had opened their campaign with a victory at champions
PARENTS in Prestwood are appealing moves to place their daughters at the mixed grammar school, Chesham High School, in September because they want them to go to the all-girls Dr Challoner's High School instead. And their local county councillor, Mike
FLACKWELL Heath Community Centre has taken its first step towards major redevelopment after it was awarded an unexpected £4,000 grant from Chepping Wycombe Parish Council. The centre, in the Straight Bit, has a redevelopment plan of around £72,000
ONE remark made by the Prime Minister after the general election made me choke on my bedtime drink. Mr Blair said he would be listening to the people more in the future. He has been Prime Minister for eight years. Why hasn't he been listening to the
THE first bricks of the new Sunday school at Wycombe Marsh Baptist Church were being laid on May 12, 1956. Sir John Hall is pictured, overseeing the laying of sponsored bricks at the official stone laying ceremony celebrating the breaking of a new dawn
A GIFTED teacher has made it through to the regional final of The Teaching Awards competition. Salome Sanmartin, 27, a languages teacher at Sir William Ramsay School in Hazlemere, is one of the four finalists in the south of England outstanding new teacher
BROTHERS-in-law Spencer Lambert and David Brindle are living a dream after opening a chic new bar in the town centre. The dedicated duo have transformed the "run-down" Anchor pub into The Glasshouse a light and airy bar boasting specialist bottled beers
BEER lovers can chose from more than 50 different ales from across Europe and the UK as The Falcon pub, High Wycombe, hosts a two-week festival. Guest ales at the High Street drinking hole include Dutch and Czech Republic tipples plus a series of award
THE parents of an eight-year-old girl who returned home from school covered in bruises say their daughter was abused by bullies. But senior staff at Loudwater Combined refuted the allegations, claiming little Louise Birkett picked up the injuries playing
STUDENTS have been promised subsidised town centre parking until the end of the academic year in a policy U-turn by Wycombe District Council. The authority had planned to call a halt to the discounted scheme which allows university students to park in
CRITICISM continues to mount against road safety bosses behind the "provocative" mobile speed camera marshalling motorists on Marlow Hill. Letters and emails have flooded into the Free Press, with furious road users fearing they are being targeted as
A SILVER-TONGUED team from the Royal Grammar School has scooped a top prize in a national debating competition. The newly crowned National Public Speaking champions were successful in the final of the Youth Speaks contest, which took place at Bishop
A HIGH Wycombe church's prayers were answered when South African pastor Raymond Zulu joined the congregation last week. Worshippers at the High Wycombe Evangelical Baptist Church, based in The Pastures, Downley, had been looking for a permanent pastor
A YOUNG boy has helped his father raise more than £7,000 for charity following the death his mother two years ago. Alexander Jones, ten, was just eight years old when his mother, Sarah, lost her seven-year battle with cancer in October 2003. Since her
RE-ELECTED county council leader David Shakespeare has warned new charges for less-essential services may have to be introduced to keep council tax rises below inflation. In an exclusive interview after his Tory group was returned to power, Cllr Shakespeare
