The Inconvenient Truth about High Energy Light Bulbs How many light bulbs does it take to change a person? Forget ‘low energy’*** bulbs – we are talking ’high performance’ here. ***Even the name (low energy bulb) could have been
POLICE chiefs today agreed to a two per cent council tax increase on their share of the final bill, about an extra £3 for a band D home. The cash will help boost officer numbers by 27, five for Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police Authority says.
A SECOND person who was at the party which saw the death of Amersham student Ben Walters has died. Lindsey Wilson, 28, from Maidenhead, has died in hospital weeks after being found unconscious at the property in Berkhampsted. Mr Walters
A NEW gym will replace The Fitness Studio in Loudwater, which closed down last month. The Oaks Health and Fitness Club will be a completely new business so memberships from The Fitness Studio, on Treadaway Hill, will not be transferred.
THIEVES stole a three-tonne digger in a move police said is ‘not uncommon’. The digger was stolen from an unnamed site in Woodside Road, Amersham between 3pm on Tuesday and 7am the next day. Police said: “Offenders have cut through wire
BEN Jacobs lines up on Sunday against the club that discarded him but insists there will be no personal agenda when Saracens arrive at Wycombe for a crunch Guinness Premiership clash. The in-form centre was a bit-part player at Vicarage Road but coming
THE council boss behind the controversial Buckinghamshire Times magazine has attacked local newspapers, saying they ‘hoodwink’ readers. Buckinghamshire County Council deputy leader Councillor Bill Chapple spoke after the authority approved
TRAFFIC was congested on London Road, High Wycombe, when a bus broke down on a roundabout. The Carousel bus broke down on the roundabout by Gordon Road / Bowerdean Road at about 2.20pm. Steven Seaman, a supervisor at Carousel, said there
VILLAGERS in Jordans are being urged to “come together” and tackle climate change - because “the end of the world is not nigh”. Jordans Quaker Meeting House will host a day of activities on March 6, aimed at encouraging people to “reduce their energy
A 12-YEAR-OLD schoolboy has become a phenomenon in the angling world after catching internet users hook, line and sinker with a series of online fishing videos. Daniel Blackwell is a guru to thousands of anglers after posting a set of YouTube videos.
A POLICE patrol car had all its windows smashed by offenders in Chesham on Wednesday night. Officers were attending Tom Scott House on Pearce Road at about 9.30pm to take a statement for an unrelated incident. They went outside to find their car
DEFENDER Alan Bennett has warned Wanderers’ next group of opponents “I am going to take my frustrations out on you.” The 28-year-old two-times Republic of Ireland international centre back joined Blues on a month’s loan this week with a mission to get
MARLOW FC midfielder Alex Cairns will miss the end of this season and the start of next after suffering a multiple knee injury. The central midfielder requires a full rebuild of his knee after sustaining cruciate and medial damage during a match against
WASPS star Danny Cipriani is to leave after seven years at the club to move to Australian side Melbourne Rebels, it has been announced. Cipriani, 22, famed for dating model Kelly Brook, will leave Adams Park at the end of this season but a
MY knowledge of motor racing is so poor that I know more about Benny Hill than I do about Damon Hill. I’ve never liked driving fast, even before the potholes of Bucks made it impossible for anyone to go more than three miles an hour around here without
BEST picture of last week was the one of TV star Fearne Cotton falling off a bicycle after beginning her training for an epic charity ride with a man from Marlow Bottom. Apparently, Fearne tumbled off somewhere in London. But after appearing to fall
WYCOMBE Swan is set for a major makeover with up to £1.2m of council cash to compete with a new theatre in Aylesbury. Owners Wycombe District Council agreed to pay a £1.195m for the ‘urgent’ summer works, though leader Lesley Clarke said it
TONY Hanks says anyone buying into the idea that Saracens can only beat teams by kicking penalties is severely underestimating them. In fact, Wasps, who pride themselves on playing an open game, have only scored five more tries in this season’s Premiership
MOST bizarre press release of the week is entitled: “Ramblers Run Riot – new survey reveals the secret habits of Britain’s hikers.” It reads as follows: “According to the latest research by OutdoorLook.co.uk, one of the UK’s leading stockists of discount
WORD reaches me of a traumatic ordeal suffered by one of my loyal readers – imprisoned for almost an hour in a public toilet in High Wycombe. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, wrote last week to pass on her thanks to the two Good Samaritans who
BACKCHAT readers have written in to support my decade-long fight to ban the bus lane on High Wycombe’s London Road. Michael Edwards, of Bowden Lane, High Wycombe, responded enthusiastically after I moaned about the A40 in last week’s column. He said
Wycombe apparently has the fourth highest level of empty shops of any town in the South of England. The three bigger retail losers are Guildford, Southampton and Bracknell – in that order, the latter having a 19.3% empty shop rate. This is very clearly
YOUR readers will undoubtedly recognise Girlguiding UK as a girl-led, dynamic organisation, relevant to today – or will they? Guiding’s been around for a long time now – in fact 100 years – and many people will naturally remember it as it was in their
A SKIER who died this week while on holiday in Austria with her young family suffered a torn artery, a post mortem has revealed. Marlow mother-of-three Tracy Boland, 46, of Pound Lane, Marlow died after colliding with a 26-year-old Dutch woman
IN response to the go ahead for the development of a Children’s Centre in Hazlemere, I wanted to write in to say how delighted I was to hear of this decision. As an employee of a Children’s Centre in Oxford I am aware of the lack of knowledge about how
YOU have probably heard by now that Booker Airfield is probably the preferred site for a new (20,000?) stadium to house Wycombe Wanderers and London Wasps. Well, let me tell you that I and most of the people I have spoken to in the area DO NOT want
RE: Climate change debate. I HAD hoped that the scientific and intellectual (not necessarily synonymous) debate on the above subject in the BFP had finally been laid to rest following the recent revelations in the media regarding the integrity of related
OPEN letter to Buckinghamshire County Council CAN someone please explain your policy on repairing potholes? We all know the roads are full of them and you are doing your best. But is your best to return time and time again to repair
AFTER attending a local meeting at which Bucks County Council’s Transport division was well represented with three people at the top table, I left at 8.30 to go home and drove through a pothole in Lane End Road and damaged my car wheel so that it has
I READ with interest your article about the virtual tour of Marlow. This tour, which is linked to the Marlow Chamber of Trade website, looks great. Could I just let your readers know about an existing Pictorial Tour site www.marlowshops.info. This is
I AM delighted on behalf of Wycombe Court Artists to say how impressed we were with the courtesy and efficiency received at the Eden Library. From February 4 – 7 we enjoyed the success of taking part in the ‘Face to Face’ exhibition on the Mezzanine
I HAVE to agree with Mrs N Moore in that dog owners are becoming ever more irresponsible in not picking up their pet’s dog mess and in the handling of their dogs (letters, last week). In Hughenden Park we have all sorts of examples of, frankly, rank
THROUGH your newspaper my wife Muriel would like to thank the people who helped her following her fall outside the Boots store in the High Street, High Wycombe on the 15th of this month. In particular the lady member of staff who dressed her cuts and
WELL, at last I have found something I can share with the teaching fraternity – I simply love this half term week. It is restful and quite blissful for me, but for very different reasons than those enjoyed by the Sirs and Ma’ams. They love it because
RE: The trial of the one-way system in Princes Risborough. Following Cllr Bendyshe-Brown’s letter in the Bucks Free Press two weeks ago (‘One way system is damaging our trade’), Cllr Alan Turner, Mayor and Chairman of Princes Risborough Town Council,
IVOR'S latest blog asks: How can we save Wycombe town centre? Click the link below to read.
IAN Rose is giving up on his London 2012 dream – it’s probably the first thing that’s ever beaten him in his 37 years. The Wycombe Paralympian has been overcoming the odds ever since he took up judo as a boy to combat the bullies who picked
A ONE-OF-A-KIND guitar replica signed by award-winning band The Kooks has gone on display at Buckinghamshire New University. The 10-ft-high multi-coloured guitar, entitled 'A Disarming No. 7', was one of 25 giant Les Paul guitars exhibited on the South
IAN ROSE has been forced to quit judo and turn his back on the London 2012 Olympics because of a back injury. The five times Paralympian and former World and European champion made his decision after failing to get over a back injury. He said: “It’s
BLUES had a bid to sign Watford’s out of favour keeper Richard Lee turned down by the Championship club. Wanderers made their move before wrapping up the loan transfer of number one target Manchester United reserve Tom Heaton until the end
GARY Waddock has made himself the busiest boss in Wycombe’s Football League history in a bid to keep the Blues in League One. He has signed 11 players in six weeks as he battles to stave off an immediate return to League Two. He has recruited an entire
PLANS to build six new homes in Princes Risborough have been outlined to Wycombe District Council. The applicant wants to demolish the existing building at Longfield on Aylesbury Road and build one dwelling with five bedrooms, four dwellings with
SARACENS have never won in Wycombe – but then Wasps had never lost a European Challenge Cup game until this season. Director of rugby Tony Hanks said: “I’ve stayed away from those sort of statistics. There have been lots of firsts this year so let’s
CHILDREN from Prestwood Junior School were given the chance to wear caps for the day to raise money for research into childhood cancer. Pupils gave £1 to wear a cap to school and remembered past pupil, Thomas Ball, who died in 2003 aged
HORRIFIED dog owners have spoken of the moment a runner attacked their beloved German Shepherd with a walking stick. Bruce Cameron and Sheila McKenna said Yogi, 13, howled in agony after the attack in The Ridgeway, near Princes Risborough.
