Five stories you may have missed on the Bucks Free Press this week

Roads in six Bucks towns could be given an overhaul thanks to half a million pounds of funding from the government - but the plans already seem to be proving controversial.

Six temporary schemes to help make travelling on the roads safer after the coronavirus lockdown have been revealed, including pop-up cycleways, more cycle parking and temporary one-way roads.

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Buyers on the hunt for a new home may have the option of living in a church - because one has gone up for sale in a Bucks village.

Stokenchurch Methodist Church is being sold after dwindling congregation numbers meant it became "surplus to requirements".

The former Methodist Church in Coopers Court Road was built in 1896 and selling website Zoopla describes it as having "typical late Victorian elevations, said to be the most elaborate for a Methodist Church in Buckinghamshire".

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The Mayor of High Wycombe has been photographed failing to adhere to social distancing guidelines at an event in the West Midlands which made headlines that forced five local councillors to apologise.

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A 19-year-old man was allegedly kidnapped in High Wycombe after a fight between two groups of men broke out on a busy town centre road.

In the early hours of Sunday, July 19, two groups of males were seen fighting when a 19-year-old man was forced into a vehicle on Marlow Hill.

It is alleged that he was taken to an abandoned pub known as Annie Bailey’s, in Chesham Road, Great Missenden, where he was held and beaten.

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A group of men were 'chased by a man with a large knife' on Wednesday afternoon in Milton Keynes.

At around 12.40pm, the group were pursued by a man at the central Milton Keynes shopping centre.

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