HIGH Wycombe Lions Club has been busy stuffing dozens of bags with Christmas cheer in time for the usual festive deliveries. More than 300 food parcels will go to elderly or disabled people who have difficulty getting to the shops. Others will go to
High Wycombe overcame their poor record against bogey side Wokingham to record a 5-1 thrashing of the bottom-of-the-table side on Saturday. Chris Goodchild set up Dave Ansdell for the first goal before the provider turned goalscorer for the second when
DREAMS of a Wembley final were ended for another season when Chalfont bowed out The FA Vase with a 2-1 loss at Hythe Town on Saturday. The defeat cost Danny Edwards' team a place in the last 32 and £1,200 prize cash. He said: "We've beaten better sides
MARLOW won local bragging rights with a 4-3 win over rivals Beaconsfield on Saturday. Kevin Stone's team recovered from 2-0 down to earn the points that shoots them back into contention for promotion. They will be hard-pressed to retain their top-six
HIGH Wycombe withstood Aylesbury's roughhouse tactics before powering to a 41-12 South West Division 2 East victory on Saturday. Aylesbury looked to bully their opponents with their heavy forwards and got some early reward with a penalty, but High Wycombe
SWIMMING: Katherine Shaw came home with a superb seven gold medals at the Oxford Meet last week. The Amersham swimmer earned golds in all four strokes in the 9/10 age group, also winning in the individual medley and bagging a silver as well. Dan Shinnie
TENNIS: Young players will get subsidised coaching next year at Great Missenden Lawn Tennis Club. BMI The Chiltern, The Paddocks and The Shelburne Hospitals have set up a scheme to subsidise coaching programmes for the most deserving young players.
FOOTBALL: Holmer Green Ladies are on the lookout for more players. A 7-2 win over Olney early in the season set them up for a successful campaign in Division Two North of the Thames Valley Counties Women's Football League, but results have since tapered
FRANK Talia kept a clean sheet for Wanderers on Saturday and then declared that he's here to stay this time. After playing for the first time in a month against Boston last midweek, the Australian keeper cemented his comeback with a starring role in
WANDERERS season tickets for the rest of the league year have gone on sale. The tickets, which start with the Leyton Orient game on December 29, go from £125-£170 for adults. Seniors tickets range from £80-£125, with U16s £35-125. Student tickets for
HAT-TRICKS have not been common for Tommy Mooney during his illustrious career. Saturday served up one of his best opportunities, when he had more than 30 minutes against nine-man Rochdale to bag a treble after replacing Nathan Tyson as the club's top
TOMMY Mooney has warned his team-mates not to become preoccupied with the club's unbeaten record. He said: "It's a good run, but the run is not going to be the thing that gets us promotion. Winning games will get us promotion." And he urged Wycombe
TEN wins, 11 draws and still no defeats. Wanderers unbeaten run is rapidly growing into legendary Mousetrap' proportions. However, unlike the long running Agatha Christie murder mystery, Wanderers' heroes, villains and plot lines change with every performance
KIND-hearted Star readers with a passion for winter woollies have been knitting for needy children amazingly totting up a collective 15 million stitches in one year. Through appeals in the South Bucks Star and our sister paper, the Bucks Free Press
VISITORS to Wycombe District Council can now have their queries addressed in the plush surroundings of the new £500,000 customer centre. The council opened its new facility, on Queen Victoria Road, on Monday including an enlarged and modernised reception
FREE PRESS reporter Paul Leat, who lives in Hemel Hempstead, was one of the first on the scene when the Buncefield fuel depot exploded. WHEN the loft hatch was blown off its hinges I knew something big had happened. The explosion at 6am shook my house
AN ELDERLY woman suffered serious head injuries when she was knocked down in a hit-and-run. The 80-year-old was taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital after being hit as she walked along Totteridge Drive, High Wycombe. Police want to trace two dark-coloured
A POWER cut in the town centre on Saturday drove customers out of the shops on one of the busiest shopping days before Christmas. And one store even had a human barricade to keep customers out. A power cut caused by a high voltage fault in the
A MAN from High Wycombe has told of his terrifying ordeal after the building he was working in collapsed around him following the explosions in Hertfordshire. Raheel Ashraf, 26, of Plumer Road, was in the offices next door to Hemel Hempstead's Buncefield
THIRTY lions are on the loose in Beaconsfield New Town this festive season. The cuddly critters are all hiding in different shops as part of the annual Find The Lion competition. Town Mayor Cllr Archie Legg launched the charity competition on The Parade
A MINIATURE donkey devastated by the death of her daughter has found comfort in a new friend at a rest home for horses. Pandora, who is in her 50s, lost her daughter St Chloe after 30 years of companionship earlier this year and staff at The Home of
