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  • The award winning parks of Wycombe and Marlow

    Recently the Rye in Wycombe and Higginson Park in Marlow have both won prestigious Green Flag awards. Its the second year running the Rye has won the award which is based on the use of green space, facility maintenance, and health and safety

  • Cars damaged at Thame show fire

    THE Oxfordshire County and Thame Show was blighted by a fire today which swept through a field of crops and damaged parked cars. Six fire engines attended which just left the scene. Firefighters were called at 4.15pm to the fire at the

  • Update: House fire in Hambleden

    FIREFIGHTERS are currently at the scene of a fire which ripped through a three storey house in Hambleden. Four fire engines attended the fire in Main Road, Rotten Road when a call was received at 12.41pm. Marlow Station Manager Keith

  • Blues continue their scoring spree

    Farnborough 2, Wycombe 4. WANDERERS took their tally to 28 goals from nine pre-season games with a comfortable victory over Blue Square South Side Farnborough this afternoon. They followed up Thursday's 5-1 win over Chelsea with another

  • Readers vote to let people choose when they retire

    MOST Bucks Free Press readers think people should not be forced to retire at 65, according to the results of a recent online poll. Out of 185 people who voted 16 percent (30) said yes, people should be forced to retire at 65 and 84 percent (155) said

  • Saints check out Phillips

    SOUTHAMPTON have sent two scouts to Farnborough this afternoon to check out Wycombe wonderkid Matt Phillips. The Bucks Free Press revealed yesterday that League One favourites Saints had joined Leeds United, Preston and Watford in showing their

  • Charity gala comes to Saunderton

    MORE than 125 guests gathered for a fundraising Summer Gala in Saunderton in aid of a trio of south Bucks based charities. The Clare Foundation hosted the event for kidsinsport, Street Dreams and Wycombe Winter Night Shelter, raising £1,200

  • Five people taken to hospital after car accident

    FIVE people have been taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital after a two car collision in High Wycombe this morning. Police were called to a collision between a black Vauxhall Astra and a blue Ford Ka at the junction with The Pastures and West

  • Artists sought to brighten up Pepperpot building

    ARTISTS are being invited to brighten up High Wycombe town centre's iconic Pepperpot building during its on going refurbishment work. The eighteenth century building is currently covered with scaffolding and surrounded by plywood sheets while

  • Huge holes appear in residents' gardens

    PAUL Beattie was thanking his lucky stars after part of his garden collapsed into a huge hole. Urgent tests are being carried out by a housing association following the collapse – which appears to be the latest in a series of holes to appear

  • Wycombe Hospital maternity closes tomorrow

    WYCOMBE Hospital’s maternity unit will close tomorrow for three months because of a staff shortage. As previously reported in The Bucks Free Press, the Wycombe Birth Centre will close while midwives are trained. The hospital lost doctor-led births