Prizes galore in music celebration draw
Aylesbury Music is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary and has a special offer tomorrow (Saturday) for readers to help mark the event.The shop’s amazing prize draw is continuing for a second...
View ArticleThame bowlers come out on top in massive win
Thame produced an emphatic victory over second-placed Buckingham at Church Meadow in the Cherwell League Division One.Asked to bat first, all the Thame top order got starts without progressing to big...
View ArticleBucks Lord Lieutenant names his deputies
Five new deputies have been appointed to assist the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher has named Caroline Bridget Abel Smith OBE, Alison Carolyn Cumming, John Evan Moffoot...
View ArticleThe full BLT: Record breaking trust set up to improve schools
A new educational charitable trust, the largest public sector mutual in local government in England, has been officially established in Buckinghamshire.Thought to be one of the first arrangements of...
View ArticleThame woman who died was Claudia Schiffer’s in-law
A woman who died in controversial circumstances has been named as Claudia Schiffer’s mother-in-law.Kathy Ceaton, 66, mother of the German model’s film director and producer husband Matthew Vaughn, was...
View ArticleMemorial group to act after mother upset at rule mix-up
Guidelines will be published by Thame Youth Memorial after a mother spent more than a year thinking her son would be remembered there, only to discover he will not.Diane Thompson, of Chinnor, believed...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: The word in the street is that The Heat is pretty...
Watch out boys, there’s a new cop buddy team on the block – they’re armed, sassy and they’re all female…Meet FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock), a super cop who has closed more cases than...
View ArticleMan injured in Princes Risborough crash
The crash happened in New Road shortly before 10am this morning and is thought to have involved a dark-coloured Audi and another vehicle.Emergency services rushed to the scene and one man was taken to...
View ArticleResidents angered by council’s ‘cavalier’ overnight gas pipe drilling
Residents on an Aylesbury street were kept awake when contractors carried out gas pipe work overnight with noisy pneumatic drills. Mungo Duncan, of Roblin Close, said drilling work by Southern Gas in...
View ArticleFamily’s joy at landing dream home thanks to government scheme
A schoolteacher has finally achieved his dream of buying his first home thanks a new Government-backed scheme.Tawonga Mudarikiri and his wife Sheila have just moved into their new three-bedroom house...
View ArticleMan charged with stealing laptop
A man has been charged with burglary after allegedly stealing a laptop from a Vale home.Peter Smith, 34, of Surrey Place, Bletchley, was arrested and after stealing the laptop from a home in Marston...
View ArticleNew working group to scrutinise failing health trust
A new county council group has formed to scrutinise the issues raised by Sir Bruce Keogh’s damning report on Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust. Sir Bruce Keogh’s report into higher than average death rates at...
View ArticleAlan Dee: Hair’s a strange way of doing nothing and asking me to pay for it
I rarely pester people for sponsorship but I hope you won’t mind if I make an exception, because I’ve come up with a bright idea which could be a real charity goldmine.Now I don’t know about you, but...
View ArticleAylesbury home buyers hit hard by stamp duty tax
More than a third of Aylesbury Vale home buyers are paying stamp duty at the higher rate of 3% or more, new research has found. Overall, more than 2,500 Vale home buyers paid out £15,797,092 on stamp...
View ArticleJackknifed lorry causes Aylesbury traffic delays
A lorry jackknifed on Elmhurst Road and shed a chemical load this morning (Tuesday).Police and Bucks Fire were at the scene near Bierton Road and the roundabout by Aylesbury Prison at 7.25am. A 150kg...
View ArticleCouple caused unnecessary suffering to a sheep
A man and woman from Stoke Mandeville have pleaded guilty to several counts of allowing a sheep to suffer in pain.John Cooper, 59, and Christine Cooper, 57, of Hall End Farm, Lower Road, caused...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s movie preview: from Norwich, it’s the hit of the week, it’s Alan...
It probably has the lowest budget of the week, but there’s no doubt which movie will be attracting comedy fans to the box office – welcome to the big screen, at long last, Mr Alan Partridge.There is,...
View ArticleAylesbury set for a wider Range?
A new home and garden furnishing retail chain could open in Aylesbury’s Broadfields Retal Park.The Range, owned by CDS Superstores, has put in a planning application to install a mezzanine level in two...
View ArticleMan arrested on suspicion of affray but two suspects evade police
Police are hunting a man allegedly involved in a fight in Aylesbury in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday).A member of the public called police after witnessing three men fighting in Granville...
View ArticleAylesbury band Marillion provide laughs in Alan Partridge film
Famous Aylesbury rockers Marillion have been included in the new film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.The prog-rock group do not appear in the fictitious legendary Radio Norfolk DJ’s film nor does their...
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