It is obvious Wycombe town centre has problems with empty shops and everyone would like to see the town thrive again. The question is how do you get the town back on its feet? According to a news article on this site yesterday the latest
WANDERERS boss Gary Waddock has told his players to forget any contract talks until they have kept the club in League One. That means more than three quarters of his squad are playing for their futures and Waddock is hoping that living on a knife edge
A FAMILY have been evicted from their High Wycombe council house after being said to have tormented neighbours with two years of anti-social behaviour. The Duff family were removed from their Hawthorne Road home this morning after they ignored
BUCKS junior girls were at Wycombe Heights on Wednesday, honing their skills on the par three course. Beaconsfield’s Annabel Dimmock was crowned par 3 champion with a one under par score, while Megan Lance was the silver division winner ahead of Emily
CHESHAM United ace Leon Archer will miss the rest of this season and perhaps the start of next after it was confirmed that he had suffered a severe cruciate ligament injury playing against Bury on February 6. Manager Andy Leese said: “It’s a huge blow
A TRAIN company has apologised to commuters after signal failures led to massive delays last night. There were two failures on the stretch of line between High Wycombe and Gerrards Cross, causing congestion on the Marylebone to Birmingham line.
WASPS’ postponed Guinness Premiership match at Sale has been rearranged for Friday, March 19, ko 7.45.
DOM Waldouck has trained this week but is rated doubtful to be fit in time for Sunday’s Guinness Premiership match with Saracens. The centre injured his shoulder on Saxons duty. Tom Varndell is another player carrying a knock, although Wasps expect
THE authority which gets the lion’s share of April’s council tax bill today set a two per cent increase – as its handling of roads and potholes continued to dominated debate. Buckinghamshire County Council will get £1,077.74 from an average
THE body of a man has been found in King's Wood in High Wycombe. He was discovered last night. Police have yet to formally identify the man. Earlier reports that the body had been formally identified were incorrect. This information was wrongly
SAINSBURY's has won permission to open a late-night supermarket in Bourne End. Plans for a new store and 14 flats at the end of The Parade were approved by Wycombe District Council in 2008, but the opening hours were restricted to a 7pm close
A PARISH council has been told to “stop bickering” after its chairman resigned and the clerk “stormed" out of a meeting for the second time this year. A Bourne End and Wooburn Parish councillor, who asked not to be named, said chairman Julia
THE Ministry of Defence have been accused of 'insulting' troops after it emerged that more than £4,000 a month is being spent on an army chief to rent a private home in Gerrards Cross. Eleven brigadiers or higher ranking officers around the
ANGRY retailers hit out at town councillors saying the one way system in Princes Risborough has 'crucified trade' in the centre. At a meeting last night traders from the town centre met Princes Risborough Town councillors to vent their disappointment
A PETITION with 337 signatures has today called for a zebra crossing in Beaconsfield to be made safer for pedestrians. Councillor Peter Hardy, of the Bulstrode ward, presented the petition to Buckinghamshire County Council. The campaign
WYCOMBE District Council’s head of public relations has been made redundant. Communications manager Jeff Willmore’s job has been axed and will be replaced by a ‘policy and communications manager’ role. The council refused to say whether
STRANGE lights were spotted over a Premiership football ground by a Chesham police officer, newly-released Ministry of Defence files say. The officer was on duty as Chelsea took on Manchester United in an FA Cup quarter final tie on March 10 1999.
NEIGHBOURS today expressed their shock about the death of a Marlow mother-of-three who died in a skiing accident in Austria. The Pound Lane resident, 46, has been named in the national media and BBC as Tracy Boland, although there has not been
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POLICE have released E-fits of two men they would like to speak to in connection with an assault in Chalfont St Peter. The incident took place on January 6 in Gold Hill Common and involved a driver being head-butted and kicked in front of his
AN 80-YEAR-OLD man has been reported missing from his High Wycombe home. Gordon Hobson was last known to be at his home in Cambridge Crescent on Tuesday night. Police are concerned for his welfare and have appealed for the public's help in trying
A CHIPPY has been crowned a prince of the potatoes, casting thousands of competitors into the fryer, after scooping third in a contest to find the best fries around. Marlow Bottom Fish Bar made it into the top three of South East Perfect Portion Award
