Last week you may have seen my blog entitled “What do they teach in schools?”. During the many comments that followed the topic of home learning crept up. I think home learning is very important indeed yours truly has even dabbled in a little home
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was punched in the head and had an egg thrown at him in Wycombe Marsh last night. He had been approached by a group of teenagers in Nelson Close at about 7.45pm, who became verbally abusive and demanded he hand over his mobile phone
A 25-YEAR-OLD man was attacked as he waited in the queue at a takeaway outlet in High Wycombe. He was left needing specialist surgery after the incident at Subway in Frogmoor, which happened at about 2am on Saturday. Police said the attackers were
A YOUTH club in Beaconsfield which was under threat of permanent closure is set to be re-opened next week by a team of volunteers. Activities at the Curzon Centre Youth Club have been suspended since the end of August, when Buckinghamshire
THREE Wycombe hockey players are hoping for good news this week after attending the final session of England trials last weekend. Sam Burroughs and Noah Sharples are hoping for a place in the England U18s training squad while their Wycombe HC team-mate
A RAPIST, a prolific burglar, and a man wanted for attempted murder are among 57 of Thames Valley's most wanted criminals who have been tracked through a new website, a charity says. More than one in three of the 159 faces featured on Thames
A WORLD Cup winner is coming to Wycombe next month. Will Greenwood MBE will be guest speaker at the Rotary Club of High Wycombe Sporting Lunch at Adams Park. Greenwood won the World Cup with England in 2003 and is now a colourful pundit on Sky Sports
A BT engineer lost a tooth after being struck round the head while he was working in an unprovoked assault in Chesham yesterday, police said. At around 8.30am, the 27-year-old BT Openreach engineer was working on his laptop from the side door
MARLOW FM presenters are following in the footsteps of the film ‘Calendar Girls’ by showing off their assets. The fledgling station is creating a fundraising 2012 calendar. For the first photo shoot, semi-naked breakfast show presenters
MORE than £5m of police cash tied up in the Icelandic bank collapse looks likely to be recovered following a court ruling. Thames Valley Police has hailed the decision by the Icelandic Supreme Court as “a huge victory”. The court judgement
TO say Blood Brothers is jaw-droppingly brilliant and a must-watch is almost an understatement. Because this production is so moving that you cannot help but be totally consumed by the characters, the plotline, the comedy, the tragedy, the music… indeed
JORDAN Ibe's wondergoal against Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend appears to have drawn the vultures out of the sky with a host of top clubs understood to be closing in. It has been reported that Fulham have made an approach, while Liverpool
WE suffered badly from the frost and ice damage to our roads during the winter. The local authority took a beating from the ‘experts’ anxious to point out their shortcomings and failures. In Marlow, there has been a great deal of work done to make good
THEY might be top of the table, but the P word is still banned at Beaconsfield RFC. Instead, the players might talk behind their hands of going up or getting out of the division. Head coach Allan Greene said: "We're not talking about
WASPS director of rugby Dai Young says he's grateful for Steve Thompson's input into team meetings - but reminded him he's not a coach. The hooker made a big impression on the Wasps scrum as he made his debut after returning from England's ill-fated
BUCKS firefighters turned out in force for the funeral of their former colleague John McGee - with his family saying they were 'overwhelmed' by the turn-out. The 57-year-old Beaconsfield firefigher lost his battle with cancer on October 16.
