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  • What's 'A' man to do?

    EVERY time I'm moaned at for nicking my other half's razor I'm reminded that there's a whole world out there "just for men". Apart from "the best a man can get" triple-blades, there's Yorkie chocolate, face balms and even extra-strong, "eat at your own

  • Scrum half gets team-mates' votes

    EOIN Reddan capped a sparkling first season with Wasps when he was named Players' Player of the Year at the club's end of season awards night last week. The scrum half arrived from Munster last summer as understudy to Matt Dawson, but a string of accomplished

  • Scrum-half gets team-mates' votes

    EOIN Reddan capped a sparkling first season with Wasps when he was named Players' Player of the Year at the club's end of season awards night last week. The scrum half arrived from Munster last summer as understudy to Matt Dawson, but a string of accomplished

  • Stop driving people mad

    I WAS amused by the furore over the traffic census which held up the traffic in High Wycombe this week. It's ironic that when our councils actually try to do something to help, they generally end up shooting themselves in the foot with the public. The

  • It's hard to be patient these days

    THERE was a letter in a broadsheet this week signed by leading figures in local government. They were requesting that more decisions should be made locally rather than nationally. "Well they would wouldn't they," as Mandy Rice Davies once notoriously

  • Beaten - but we can hold our heads up high

    I MUST have stood in the ground for 20 minutes at the end of last Thursday's game attempting to collect my thoughts. Frustration, anger, dismay, sheer devastation. as the defiant chants kept coming, I felt above all proud to be a supporter of Wycombe

  • Rangers join the chase for Senda

    QPR and Luton are leading the chase to sign Wanderers right back Danny Senda. The pair are hoping to capitalise on the 25-year-old player's disappointment at missing out on promotion with Wycombe by offering him a passport to the Championship. Senda

  • Rangers join the chase for Blues defender

    QPR and Luton are leading the chase to sign Wanderers right back Danny Senda. The pair are hoping to capitalise on the 25-year-old player's disappointment at missing out on promotion with Wycombe by offering him a passport to the Championship. Senda

  • Keeper Williams nets new deal

    GOALKEEPER Steve Williams will sign a new one-year contract with the club today. He was offered a 12-month deal earlier this week and will put pen to paper when he meets managing director Steve Hayes today. It is a massive relief to the 23-year-old

  • Keeper nets new deal after fearing the sack

    GOALKEEPER Steve Williams will sign a new one-year contract with the club today. He was offered a 12-month deal earlier this week and will put pen to paper when he meets managing director Steve Hayes today. It is a massive relief to the 23-year-old

  • Abbey home adored by Vivien Leigh up for sale

    Notley Abbey, the Buckinghamshire home of theatrical knight Sir Laurence Olivier during his 20-year tempestuous marriage to Gone with the Wind star Vivien Leigh, is for sale for something over three and a half million. The seven-bedroom grade I listed

  • Gorman won't return to Wanderers

    WYCOMBE Wanderers have parted company with manager John Gorman. Members of the club board have announced today that Gorman would not be returning to the club after he was given compassionate leave in April following the death of his wife Myra in February

  • 'Without us some children would have ended in care'

    A CHARITY helping hundreds of struggling parents raising children could be forced to close by the end of the year unless urgent funding is found. Staff at Home-Start Wycombe, based in Priory Road, have admitted the charity is in a financial crisis as

  • Death of a 'notable' headteacher

    GLADYS Belson, the former chairman of Wycombe District Council and headteacher at Danesfield School, has died aged 93. The much-loved teacher and former president of the National Association of Headteachers (NAH) died on Sunday,. Miss Belson, pictured

  • Jaled for life for Scout camp sex assault

    VILLAGERS living close to the showmen have urged the council to reconsider its decision to force the travelling families out of Holmer Green. Keith Spratt, 62, has sent letters to Chiltern District Council and the planning inspectors. Mr Spratt, of Orchard

  • 'We'll be homeless in a week'

    SHOWMEN living in Holmer Green fear they will be thrown onto the street as a council deadline demanding they move out expires next week. The families living at the Greenacres site in Earl Howe Road had asked for extra time to try to find a new home,

  • Old folks' lunch club faces axe

    THE future of a once-flourishing lunch club, which gives Marlow's oldest residents a vital chance to get out of their homes and socialise, is in crisis because of a lack of staff. Known as the Friday Club, it is run by the Marlow Community Association

  • Mayor loses battle against cancer

    BRAVE Amersham mayor Monica Breadmore has lost a long battle against cancer just one week after completing her year in office. The Conservative councillor for Wheedon Hill, who died on Sunday, was well known for her selfless community work even attending

  • A husband's moving story

    IN a moving statement after the inquest, husband Bill Gammon paid tribute to Patricia and described the terrible moment he stumbled across the scene of the accident that had killed his wife. He said: "My wife Patricia was asleep in her bed when the