WYCOMBE Wanderers have raided League One side Brentford to complete the double signing of frontman Ben Strevens and full-back Danny Foster. The Blues beat off competition from Carlisle United to snap up 30-year-old hitman Strevens, who has
THE Spartans are coming home to High Wycombe after making it to the finals of the MMG Buckinghamshire Battle of the Bands. The four-piece band, who hail from Wycombe, made it through to the final which was held at the Sno!Bar in Milton Keynes
A 23-YEAR-OLD has been jailed for six and a half years for trying to cheat a pensioner out of £100,000 before being chased by police and 'mowing' into a pedestrian with his van. Noel Ward drove at speeds of up to 50 mph through the crowded
THE 39th and possibly last of one of Marlow's traditional summer events – the Rose Carnival – will take place on Saturday. Exasperated volunteers say there is not enough help and support to keep running the event. (see related articles below). It is
DRIVERS in Bucks who are flying the flag for England during this year’s World Cup may be facing an own goal according to legal experts. As the nation prepares England’s second stage clash with Germany on Sunday, more and more motorists are
TOM Ingram scorched to his second double podium of the Ginetta Junior Championship at the weekend to reach the mid-season break just nine points off the overall lead. The Wycombe speedster finished third and second at Croft and it might have
A MAJOR inquest is to be held into the death of a man who died after being restrained by police. A jury will hear the inquest into the death of Habib Ullah from December 6. It is expected to last eight days. The Independent Police Complaints Commission
GERRARDS Cross CC go to league leaders Thame tomorrow in a game that will test both team's title credentials. Cross captain Steve Rimmer is not so sure though, after seeing his team win well at another title challenger and then struggle to draw with
NINE primary and secondary schools in south Buckinghamshire want to leave council control to become academies. But only six were ranked “outstanding” during the last Ofsted inspection and eligible to convert into an academy from September.
BELL-RINGERS have warned High Wycombe's oldest church may be silenced forever unless money can be found to prevent the church's iconic bell tower from collapsing. The bells have rung out from All Saints Church in Castle Street for more than
RECRUITMENT of police officers will be frozen if Government budget cuts are as big as feared, Thames Valley Police’s chief constable said today. Sara Thornton said expected news that police budgets will be slashed by 25 per cent would need
MATT Phillips will join up with the provisional England U19 squad on Tuesday with one thing in mind – to make the cut for the European Championships taking place in France next month. The Wanderers midfielder is one of 23 players going on a
ROB Webber returns from England’s summer tour to Australia confident he has what it takes to establish himself in Martin Johnson’s side. The hooker who signed a new deal at Wasps before jetting Down Under didn’t feature in the Test team which won one
A HORRIFIED animal lover has slammed a council's controversial plan to cull pigeons after witnessing the “horrible sight” of a hawk feeding on a live pigeon in Frogmoor. Ellen Wise, 69, has branded Wycombe District Council's scheme to cull
AT 88-YEARS-old Joan Barnes has no plans for slowing as she continues to teach youngsters the skills of drama. Mrs Barnes, from Hazlemere, has been teaching drama since 1968 and was the founder member of the Hazlemere Players. If you
THIS column has given High Wycombe mayor Jane White a licence to thrill after pairing her in a car with James Bond legend Sean Connery. I recruited the services of the former 007 after Jane admitted, in an interview with our sister paper The South Bucks
HAVE no fear if you saw a strange man, armed with a child’s fishing rod, frantically looking for a shoe in the River Wye in High Wycombe on Monday evening. Don’t worry, he is perfectly sane, and was only there because of the World Cup. His name is
I have a friend in Yorkshire who has worked for BP in Saltend for the last 30 years. Amongst his other duties, he is charged with the safety of the workforce in his department and tells me that for as long as he has worked for the company, safety has
RE: Wycombe District Council’s plan to trap and cull pigeons in High Wycombe town centre. HAS anybody considered feeding the pigeons in Wycombe with bread containing crushed contraceptive pills? Lawrence Linehan, Wooburn Green.
ON Monday June 7th about 8.20am my 53-year-old daughter was cycling toward Beaconsfield when a car turned into Wattleton Road and knocked her off her bike. The car did not stop, but my daughter said it was a red car and that the driver had long hair
THIS is a letter from a reader who enclosed a cutting of an article from a local paper in Devon, entitled ‘Lido splashes into summer’. The piece included a picture of swimmers in a large open air pool. High Wycombe’s outdoor pool at Holywell Mead
TELFORD Way in Downley is an area over-populated by cars with insufficient parking bay facilities for its residents. Virtually everyday though, I witness a man, who actually works in the town centre, parking his car, then walking down the nearby alleyway
I WISH residents and West Wycombe Parish Council every success in their campaign for road safety improvements after the recent tragic loss of life and injuries in the village. I have similar concerns in my area for Hatters Lane and Totteridge Lane.
LETTER to Simon Burns, MP, Minister of State (Health). Re: Wycombe Hospital. THANK you for accepting my intervention in the adjournment debate of 16 June on behalf of Wycombe Hospital. I understand interventions are not usual during the adjournment
TWO unconnected things really got my goat this week – the VAT increase and cycling. Yes, I know there is a huge budget deficit and we all agreed to share the pain, bla bla bla... but 20 per cent is just too high. It means that for every major bill you
I AM sorry to have given the impression to Mr Weeden, (letters June 4), that I have been reading too much science fiction. I would like to assure Mr W that my information regarding the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Gulf Stream) came directly
RE: Climate change. IN a recent BBC Reith Lecture, Professor Martin Rees predicted that the planet in future will be warmer; how much warmer depending on how much carbon dioxide we continue to emit. This conflicts with the suggestion (May
THANK you to all of your readers who joined St Columba’s Church in Chesham, in celebrating their recent Golden Jubilee. The Open Day and Ecumenical Service, both held on 5th June, were a great success and it was great to welcome so many local people
THE case of a top girls' grammar which has been allowed to have debts of £1.3 million should not set a precedent for other schools, councillors were told. Buckinghamshire County Council has intervened in the financial management at Beaconsfield
ON the basis of archaeological history, Anthony Weeden – in his recent BFP letter – is quite right to point out the inevitability of another impending ice age. The highly-variable – but fundamentally cyclical – nature of solar radiation impacting
MAY I ask the better-heeled businesses to act honestly and responsibly and pay their bills to small companies promptly? Setting up, say, a helpline to give free, good legal advice would put useful pressure on delinquents and may reduce the number of
RE: The annual meeting in May of Hughenden Parish Council during which residents proposed a vote of no confidence against the council over proposals to build affordable homes in the Green Belt. Last week, the parish council wrote to clarify its position
I READ the article in your paper about the Bucks New Uni final shows, and thought it’d be good to go and have a look. We’ve been several years in a row, and it is always good. I was also curious to see inside the new building which looks so great
LET’S hope that new Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has now well and truly got the message that the people of Bucks do not want, and will not accept, High Speed 2 cutting a swathe through our beautiful countryside. The comments last week from House
This story was updated at 3pm. POLICE stop and searches amongst ethnic minorities in High Wycombe are ‘disproportionate’, the chief constable of Thames Valley Police has said. Of 1,586 ethnic minorities searched in 10 months, some 87
IF Wycombe are going to make something of this season they will need to start with a victory at home to Aston Rowant tomorrow. Failing to beat Harpenden last week was a chance gone and they could consign themselves to a season fighting the drop if they
PLANS to build two flats on Hughenden Avenue have been submitted to Wycombe District Council. The proposal is to construct a two storey side extension at 109 Hughenden Avenue to form two self-contained flats with off street car parking.
CRICKETERS at a Chalfont St Peter school have been left stumped after plans for a new pavilion were hit for six by planners last night. Gayhurst School in Bull Lane made a bid for the new facility to replace one described as “very dilapidated” and
BLUES boss Gary Waddock has signed Dave Winfield to reunite the centre back partnership that served him so well at Aldershot Town. Winfield joins on a two-year deal, just six months after Waddock lured Adam Hinshelwood to Wycombe from The Recreation
POTHOLE repairs are due to take place in the following streets today. Baker Street, High Wycombe Glenister Road, Booker Roberts Road, High Wycombe Short Street, High Wycombe Barbers Wood Road, Booker West End Road, High
IF you saw someone walking down the street this week with a British title belt around his waist, it was probably Mark McCullough. The Wycombe boxer achieved a lifelong ambition on Saturday when he beat Dean Mills at the Torquay Riviera Centre
WASPS season tickets go on general sale today. To book your seat ahead of campaign that will see Wasps square up to European Champions Toulouse in the Heineken Cup, call the club’s ticket office on 0844 225 2990.
SPEED camera chiefs celebrated their tenth birthday with figures showing road deaths and injuries fell by at least a third in the last decade. They said the figures showed cameras, roadside police checks and courses for speeding drivers had
