Here are five of the biggest stories published on the Bucks Free Press website this week.

Holmer Green pensioner who uses school path to visit wife in care home has journey DOUBLED - amid decision to lock gates

A Holmer Green pensioner who uses a school path to visit his wife in a care home now has to walk twice as far after a decision was made to lock the path's gates.

Pete Healy, 71, used to use the path that runs from Watchet Lane, besides Holmer Green Infant School, to Parish Piece, besides Holmer Green Senior School, to visit his wife of 48 years, Di.

Di suffers severe Alzheimer's disease and lives in the village care home, Cherry Garth.

But an apparent decision by the senior school to lock the gates to their path, except between 8am and 9am and 2.45pm and 3.45pm on weekdays, means Pete now has to walk twice as far to visit her.

Woman dies on tracks at train station

A woman sadly died after being hit by a train at Burnham station on Tuesday afternoon.

British Transport Police (BTP) said they were called to the scene at 4.48pm.

Paramedics also attended after receiving reports of a casualty on the train tracks, however, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police confirmed that the woman is in her 30s. 

Horses removed from field amid RSPCA visit and 'string of concerns from residents'

Two young ponies were reportedly "rescued" from a Wooburn Green field on Tuesday evening after residents raised fears about their welfare. 

Horses appeared in the field opposite Wooburn Park in Town Lane some months ago, but recently residents have raised concerns about them on social media and called the RSPCA.

'A living misery': Hughenden Valley residents upset at HGVs using Warrendene Road as a 'waiting bay'

A "dreadful" lorry parking situation is making residents lives a "living misery", a councillor has claimed - as a petition to deal with the problem was handed over earlier this week.

Residents living on Warrendene Road in the Hughenden Valley say HGVs are using the road as a waiting bay to get into a nearby landscaping business site, Country Supplies.

'You could see the THC crystals’ – Cannabis reportedly found in 50 bin bags in quiet village

Around 50 bin bags containing what is supposedly cannabis were found dumped in a village in West Buckinghamshire.

The bags were left on Muswell Hill in Brill which prompted one resident in the village to contact the authorities and the council.

After Buckinghamshire Council allegedly attended the scene, they reportedly left stickers on the bags explaining they had visited the area, but did not take them.