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  • Desborough Road in August 2007

    Recently I went in to a shop in Desborough Road to buy something. As there was a queue waiting behind me I walked towards the front of the shop to put the change and receipt into my wallet. Unbeknown to me a young lady had been watching put my money

  • Desborough Road in August 2007

    Recently I went in to a shop in Desborough Road to buy something. As there was a queue waiting behind me I walked towards the front of the shop to put the change and receipt into my wallet. Unbeknown to me a young lady had been watching put my money

  • West rolls back the years

    FORMER Wycombe Wanderers scoring machine Mark West rolled back the years with a goal in Thame United's 3-0 win over Rayners Lane on Tuesday. The 41-year-old player boss picked himself after becoming dissillusioned with his team's mis-firing strikers.

  • Sanders plans to lift the spirits

    NICOLA Sanders insists she can put a smile on the face of the British team at the World Athletics Championships which start in Japan tonight. With few medal hopes making the trip to Osaka, pundits are predicting a miserly medal haul. But Amersham's

  • New bus route aid shoppers

    BUS routes across High Wycombe are being updated to prepare for the opening of the Eden shopping centre. From September 3, Arriva will revamp High Wycombe's bus network, changing a number of routes in an effort to improve reliability and punctuality

  • Child dies after falling into family swimming pool

    A THREE-YEAR-OLD toddler who died in a relative's swimming pool on Tuesday was from Chesham. George Eley stumbled into the pool around 2.45pm on Tuesday while visiting family in Chippenham, Wiltshire. He was flown by air ambulance to Great Western

  • I'm all at sea after meeting readers on the beach

    SO THERE I was standing alone and half naked in the sea in Looe in deepest Cornwall, with my pasty white skin covered in goosebumps. But as I shivered and snivelled in the freezing water last week, I had one consolation: I was 240 miles from High Wycombe

  • Friday was fright night on TV

    It's not very often you watch a documentary and find yourself actually feeling very scared. Well, I say not often, but I do remember watching the fly-on-the-wall documentary about the glamour model Jordan and her husband Peter Andre and feeling particularly

  • We have to confront the thugs

    How do we stop the thugs from taking over? It is a dilemma. The police advise us not to confront wrong- doers in dangerous situations, but on the other hand, if we always wait for the police to arrive, the thugs and criminals know as well as we do that

  • Cyril Witts dies

    A FOUNDING father of Bourne End Community Centre has died just two weeks short of his 82nd birthday. Cyril Witts, 81, was a founding member of the Bourne End Community Association in Wakeman Road in 1967. He recently moved to Chester and was expected

  • Robbed pensioner scared to go out

    A PENSIONER who used to take trips into London alone says she is now too frightened to even leave her house after being mugged in Gerrards Cross. The 80-year-old was grabbed and then robbed of her engagement ring that she had been given 64 years ago

  • Doofuses and hippopotami

    EVERY so often a word comes along that everyone seems to be using while I've never heard of it. 'Doofus' is the latest example and my son and daughter now regularly insult each other with it. Perhaps predictably, it originates from America and is thought

  • Doofuses and hippopotami

    EVERY so often a word comes along that everyone seems to be using while I've never heard of it. 'Doofus' is the latest example and my son and daughter now regularly insult each other with it. Perhaps predictably, it originates from America and is thought

  • Underage booze crackdown

    UNDERAGE drinkers are still managing to buy alcohol according to new figures released from a campaign. The police and Trading Standards officers started checking pubs, clubs and off-licences from March this year. In 21 cases there were six illegal sales

  • And once the Earth was flat!

    Re: BFP Letters, August 10 "Climate change is a real danger to us" IT IS quite clear that David Hampton is an eco-warrior and like all eco-warriors attacks anyone who challenges their fixation on made-man global warming as heretics. In the Middle Ages

  • Thanks to Valerie

    I KNOW Mayor Mrs Valerie Razzaq, was personally moved by the documentary about Barbara and Malcolm Pointon, whose lives were so authentically portrayed on TV recently "Love's Farewell". We would like to thank Valerie for choosing our South Bucks branch

  • Full squad heading to Newbury

    WASPS will send a full squad to Newbury on Saturday for the first of two friendlies. All the summer signings are expected to feature, as well as established stars such as Tom Voyce, Mark van Gisbergen, James Haskell and Danny Cipriani. New captain John

  • Woodland burial park plan

    A WOODLAND burial park made of environmentally friendly materials is set to be built in South Bucks next year. The 72-acre park will go up in Pitlands Wood, near Beaconsfield, after Chiltern District Council gave the thumbs-up last week. It is set to

  • Reserves hammered by Saints

    JAMIE Young was beaten five times as a young Wanderers reserve side went down 5-0 at Southampton in their opening Combination game of the season. The side also featured new signings Jack Obersteller, Derek Duncan and former Trinidad international midfielder