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  • MP wants doctors to have flexibility

    PATIENTS in Princes Risborough are missing out on seeing their doctor because of excessive Government interference, it has been claimed. Aylesbury and Princes Risborough MP David Lidington said that national targets were unwittingly causing problems

  • Putrid sewage engulfs children’s playground

    CHILDREN at a playground in Hazlemere were exposed to raw sewage from a blocked drain for six days last month. The drain, off Cedar Avenue, is used by all the nearby premises and began to leak on Friday, July 15, covering The Dell in foul smelling water

  • Thinking of dad kept me going in world’s toughest yacht race

    ADVENTURER Peter Robinson has returned safely from his round-the-world voyage, completing a unique triathlon to raise money for the Alzheimer's Research Trust. He also joins 1,000 people who have circumnavigated the globe the wrong way against the prevailing

  • Floating puppets

    THE Puppet Theatre Barge, which stages shows along the River Thames, makes its journey to Marlow's Higginson Park on August 6 and will stay until August 27. Contact: 0207 249 6876

  • Park’s facelift set to be altered after pressure

    THE major facelift set for Higginson Park could be radically changed as negotiations with town councillors continue, Wycombe District Council has revealed. The council withdrew plans for the park from cabinet last month to allow time for talks with town

  • Parent calls for solution to school’s entry crisis

    SIR William Borlase's Grammar School cannot set up an extra Year Seven class for 2005/06 entry despite the wishes of parents, the deputy head has said. As previously reported, the school in West Street Marlow, has been forced to take in 15 additional

  • Ride raises an Eiffel lot of charity cash

    MEMBERS of a gym have returned from a charity bicycle ride from London to Paris, after raising nearly £40,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The 27 riders, from the Marlow Club, in Fieldhouse Lane, trained relentlessly before the three-day

  • Popular head leaves school to work in an orphanage

    PUPILS, parents and staff paid a special goodbye to headteacher Vanessa Hughes as she left her job to work in an orphanage. Mrs Hughes, of Marlow C of E Infants School, left the school on Thursday, July 21, after more than seven years in the post as