ANTISOCIAL behaviour and underage drinking face a new obstacle in the Naphill area shopkeepers. Traders have teamed up with Thames Valley and RAF police to launch a new scheme aimed at eliminating the problem from their stores. The Safe Shop Scheme
UNUSUAL Christmas trees were on display last week as a festive competition brought hundreds of people to All Saints Church. The church, in The Causeway, Marlow, played host to a Christmas tree competition where people placed their trees on display and
A GAY couple from Chesham tied the knot on Wednesday and then admitted they had been waiting 30 years for their big day to arrive. Peter Saunders and Robert Nunn, both in their 50s, took advantage of new laws introduced this week that allowed same-sex
RUGBY: Marlow go into the Christmas break on the back of a defeat after they went down 25-12 at Cleve. The visitors began hesitantly, losing their first three lineouts, but Cleve were little better and neither side was able to put together much flowing
SQUASH: A weakened Buckinghamshire Squash Racket Ball Club first team beat reigning County Division One leaders, Beaconsfield 3-2. Matt Marshall, Tom Power and Adam Edge all won in the top three ties while Mark Brown, drafted in from the second team,
JUDO: Eleven-year-old Jessica Moore notched the sixth gold medal of her fledgling career when she won the Under 12 title at the Wycombe Judo Centre on November 27. The Pipers Corner School student, who trains at the 61 Judo Club in Amersham, has only
HOCKEY: Three Marlow boys have spent the week in Gibraltar training with England's U18 squad. Nick Catlin, Tom Woolven and Ed Kelleher all jetted out to the rock this week as part of England's 22-man training squad. They made the cut after a training
BOXING: Sam Wall made it two wins out of two as he beat Tottenham's Jones. The 14-year-old Marlow Police Community Club fighter came sprinting out of the traps in the first round of the 66kg bout at Waltham Town Hall. Wall picked his punches well and
WANDERERS' players have come out fighting following their 2-1 defeat at Bury last Saturday which ended their magnificent 21-game unbeaten run. They have vowed to bounce straight back from the defeat which ended the only unbeaten record in the country
WANDERERS face a punishing schedule of four matches in eight days over Christmas but for striker Charlie Griffin the games can't come fast enough. The in-form marksman has scored six times in six starts since recovering from a horrific head injury and
WANDERERS suffered last-gasp agony for the second match running as they went out of the LDV Vans Trophy after a real thriller. Blues looked to have done enough to take their higher league opponents to extra time when two-goal Charlie Griffin levelled
CHRISTMAS has been a woeful time for Wycombe in recent seasons. Last season saw the Blues take just one point from the four games around Yuletide. We earned three points in three games at Christmas 2003, three points in three in 2002 and no points in
SHOPKEEPERS in High Wycombe are lamenting the fact that two massive redevelopment projects were started in the run-up to Christmas. Managers say they are suffering because festive shoppers are not coming into the town centre due to a shortage in car
THE Bucks Free Press is urging readers to finish off their Christmas shopping in High Wycombe. As residents of this town, we should be doing everything we can to ensure that our traders enjoy a booming Christmas and a prosperous new year. So rather
A CATALOGUE of events has made the festive season less than fun for grandmother Maxine Smith. The 49-year-old's purse was snatched while she was enjoying the Christmas lights switch-on in High Wycombe. And then thieves broke into her home and stole
DISGRACED High Wycombe police officer James McKenna has been sent to prison for 18 months for sexually assaulting a male student. McKenna, 29, of Oakwood, Flackwell Heath, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday, December 16. The PC, formerly
