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  • Bucks baby bite is among YouTube's most watched

    A CLIP of a Bucks baby biting his brother’s finger has been named the most watched on video website YouTube on its fifth birthday. The 56 second clip of Charlie Davies-Carr biting older brother Harry’s finger has been watched 160,162,524 times

  • Gas works set to disrupt Amersham traffic

    TRAFFIC is set to be disrupted in Amersham over the coming weeks as £2million worth of gas pipes are replaced. Work is to be carried out on 41 roads in the town as “essential” replacement projects start later this month. National Grid

  • Hospital denies 'doctor off skiing' allegation

    A HOSPITAL spokesman has denied a councillors’ public allegation that a clinic was not running because the doctor was on holiday. Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust spoke out after Councillor David Watson made the allegation in a public meeting.

  • Reading defender arrives on loan

    WANDERERS have signed Reading full back Julian Kelly on a month's loan. The 19-year-old, who will challenge Lewis Hunt for the right back berth, joined up with his new team-mates today. He has made 11 league appearances for Reading and is a player Waddock

  • Purchase back in winners' circle

    MARLOW rower Zac Purchase is back and honing in on London 2012 again. He won his first race in 12 months at the GB Rowing Team winter assessments at Eton-Dorney on Sunday to draw a line under a virus that sidelined him for almost a year. Purchase won

  • Wycombe pounce of Marlow's woes

    HIGH Wycombe RFC are the team of the moment after running in another five tries on Saturday to take full advantage of Marlow’s 2010 wobbles in South West 1 East. For much of the season it was Marlow challenging champions-elect Cheltenham at the top of

  • JCB stolen from Beaconsfield home

    A JCB forced open a set of gates after being stolen from a house in Beaconsfield. The hydraulic arm of the red JCB mini excavator was used to break apart a shut set of gates at the property in Burkes Road. It was then driven onto a waiting

  • Blues snap up Reading defender

    WANDERERS have signed right back Julian Kelly from Reading on a one-month emergency loan. The 19-year-old has represented Ireland U19s and played 11 times for Reading last season. Blues boss Gary Waddock said: "He has Championship experience and is

  • Pupils “overwhelmed” by Auschwitz visit

    SCHOOL pupils from Buckinghamshire were left “overwhelmed” after visiting Nazi concentration camps in Poland. Youngsters from High Wycombe, Chesham, Princes Risborough and Marlow visited the sites of Auschwitz-Birkenau - where the mass extermination

  • Re-think on bid to axe counselling

    HEALTH bosses are to re-visit controversial plans to axe counselling services. They were poised to axe ‘generic’ counselling from GP surgeries from April 1 in a move that would save £223,000. The plans caused an outcry from some GPs

  • Six arrested after immigration raid

    SIX arrests have been made following a raid by immigration officials at a Flackwell Heath restaurant on Friday afternoon. The arrests were made by the UK Border Agency after the Radhuni restaurant in Straight Bit was raided. Adam Edwards

  • Council leader: track decision 'will be independent'

    A COUNCIL leader has defended its planning process and denied claims that councillors have been ‘whipped’ to follow the party line over a Hazlemere athletics track plan. Wycombe District Council Leader Lesley Clarke called suggestions Conservative

  • Risborough homes plan submitted

    PLANS for nearly 200 new homes in Princes Risborough have officially been submitted. Proposals to redevelop the former Whiteleaf Furniture site in Picts Lane and the Hypnos site in Station Road have been made to Wycombe District Council.

  • School's bid for new technology block

    A HIGH Wycombe school has made a bid to build a new food technology block. John Hampden Grammar School made the application to Wycombe District Council at the end of the last week. The school, in Marlow Hill has submitted plans for the 'addition

  • Campaigners fight on to restore bus service

    STRANDED residents left without a bus service to their village have vowed to continue fighting to have it re-instated. The 305 service into Seer Green was dropped by operator Jason Tours last week – just a month after the franchise had taken