MPs are demanding answers from the Government and Buckinghamshire Hospitals' Trust management about why a deadly bug has been on the rampage at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for more than 18 months. In a letter to the Health Secretary, Wycombe MP Paul Goodman
HIGH Wycombe squaddie Darren Outten has set the pace after being promoted just 17 weeks into his army career. The former Great Marlow School pupil signed up last August and has just completed his basic training at the Army Training Regiment in Hertfordshire
ASTON Villa have promised to send their full first team to Wanderers for Steve Brown's on-off testimonial match but have switched the date. The Villans have brought the game forward by 24 hours to Monday, July 18 so that they can fly out on their pre-season
ARTEFACTS pre-dating Christ have been found during an archaeological dig. The Marlow Archaeology Society came across a 2,500-year-old piece of flint during a year-long dig at the SAS UK's headquarters on Henley Road. Society secretary David Greenwood
A SPECIAL needs teacher from Marlow could win the chance to influence national education policies if she is crowned top of her profession at a regional Teaching Awards Trust ceremony in July. Sheona Jones is a special needs co-ordinator at Great Marlow
GROUND Force eat your heart out. Danesfield School has developed the "ultimate wildlife garden" without a Charlie Dimmock or Alan Titchmarsh in sight. Headteacher Derry Lewis said pupils gasped with delight as they paraded through the garden, designed
OBJECTORS to plans for land near the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Marlow will have to wait for a decision. Housing Solutions, and Maidenhead and District Housing Association, submitted a planning application for 50 "affordable" houses and apartments on land
A FORMER Marlow publican has said that binge drinking is not to blame for antisocial behaviour. Martin Bates, formerly landlord of the Duke of Cambridge in Queens Road, spoke out after businesses in the town had been subjected to antisocial behaviour
A DENTAL hygienist has told how a lamppost outside the surgery possibly saved her life after a car crashed through the surgery wall. Heather Worley, 28, from Maidenhead, was polishing the teeth of a client at the Bridge Dental Surgery in Station Road
THE future of one of the oldest monuments in Marlow is once again assured, according to an interest group after it secured funds for its wellbeing. The Tempus Fugit group, meaning "time flies" in Latin, has said it is delighted after it was handed the
PARENTS of 14-year-old truant Martin Bryant say they are "being held to ransom" by their violent and destructive son. Geoffrey and Julie Bryant of Elliot Drive, Marlow, answered charges of failing to ensure their son's school attendance, when they appeared
TODDLERS took part in a charity walk to raise money for Barnardo's and awareness of people living in poverty. The staff and children from Woodlands Day Nursery, in Chesnut Lane, Amersham, donned fancy dress for their half-mile "toddle" around Elangeni
IT was a feeling of deja vu that led a Chesham historian to start a campaign to help bring pride back to the town. John Healey, of Partridge Close, got the inspiration for his idea from the mother of his long-term lodger. Mrs Lilley-Taylor, from Oxford
RULE-BREAKING drivers in Amersham and Chesham are living on borrowed time as Chiltern District Council prepares to receive new powers to slap fines on motorists who flout parking restrictions. The council is now in the process of recruiting a team of
FIVE life-saving hounds have begun vital training to learn how to detect skin cancer through their keen sense of smell. Saunderton-based charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People has been working with health professionals from the Buckinghamshire Hospitals
A WEAPONS amnesty has been called in response to the alarming violent crimes in Wycombe over the past three weeks the latest of which saw a man shot outside a pub. The decision was made at a meeting of town leaders last Tuesday, after the alleged murder
