UPDATE: Missing woman found
A woman who went missing from Stoke Mandeville Hospital has been found safe and well.Louise Kinsey went missing from the hospital, where she was a patient, at about 8pm on Saturday.Police today said...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: Smaug is spectacular, roll on the final chapter
‘Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of your enormity, O Smaug the Stupendous...’After last year’s fun opener the Lord of the Rings prequel bursts back onto the big screen in all its Hobbity...
View ArticleOfsted chief hits out at grammar school system
Grammar schools are ‘stuffed full’ of middle-class children and do not improve social mobility, the chief inspector of schools in England has said.Bucks is one of the few counties left in England which...
View ArticleUPDATE: Air ambulance service restored
Air ambulance services in the Thames Valley and Chiltern area have been restored after being grounded because of a fault.The air ambulance, the same model which recently crashed in Glasgow, returned to...
View ArticleCounty Hall boss tackles tax increases, road improvements, child exploitation...
County Hall chief Martin Tett has defended tax rises, promised to spend millions more on road repairs and said he supports cutting the number of Bucks councils in his Christmas message to residents.Mr...
View ArticleBT’s £629m boost to Bucks economy
BT generated £629 million for the Bucks economy in the past year, according to a report published today.The report, by Regeneris Consulting, also shows the communications company supports 1,280 jobs...
View Article62 arrested on suspicion of drink-driving in Bucks
More than 60 people have now been arrested in Bucks as part of a police Christmas drink-drive campaign.The 62 people arrested in the county between December 1 and 15 account for 43% of the 143 held on...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s movie preview: Harry Hill versus Moshi Monsters. Fiiiight!
It’s no surprise that one of the biggest TV successes of recent years has been dusted down and given the big screen treatment.But you can’t help thinking that whoever gave the green light to a cinema...
View ArticleAlan Dee: When condolence is just a matter of political convenience, what’s...
Right, Nelson Mandela has now been buried. Can we all move on?Takes one step back to get a couple of things straight: Nelson Mandela, great man, amazing life, commendable example, not a saint but...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man bailed in connection with Wendover sexual assault
A man arrested in connection with a sexual assault on an 11-year-old boy in Wendover has been released on bail.The 43 year old, who lives in the Bicester area, was arrested on Monday.Today he was...
View ArticleThree taken to hospital after Aston Clinton bypass crash
Three men were taken to hospital last night after a two-car pile-up on the Aston Clinton bypass.The injured men had to be freed from their vehicles by firefighters, who were called at 11.13pm.Two of...
View ArticleDrinks taken off Bucks shelves by watchdog
Fizzy drinks that failed Trading Standards tests in Bucks have been taken off shelves.Two samples, taken during a series of tests, had the wrong labelling and contained too much benzoic acid, which in...
View Article2,450 homes bid moves forward
Plans for 2,450 homes near Bierton have been given planning permission - more than a year after a council committee backed the development.Following the completion of complicated legal agreements,...
View ArticleExtension takes just six days to get green light after law change
A home owner from Weston Turville has become the first person in the Vale to be fast-tracked through a simplified planning system which has seen him gain approval for an extension in just six...
View ArticleFour hurt in rush-hour crash at Watermead junction
A boy, a woman and two men were injured in a four-vehicle pile-up at the junction of Watermead and Buckingham Park last night.The vehicles crashed on the A413 at around 6pm and fire, police and...
View ArticleMan seriously injured in motorbike crash
An 18-year-old man has been serious injured after being knocked off his motorbike in a collision with a car near Long Marston.He was riding a black Aprilia 125cc motorcycle along Cheddington Lane...
View ArticleElderly woman injured by shoplifter trying to steal booze from Tring Road Tesco
An elderly woman’s leg was broken when she was barged to the ground by a fleeing shoplifter at an Aylesbury supermarket.The thief was trying to steal three bottles of whisky from Tesco in Tring Road...
View ArticleChristmas comes to life for primary schoolchildren
Pupils from St Mary’s School in Haddenham were given the chance to get up close and personal with some reindeer earlier this week.The reindeer, provided by Hartwell Nursery, came to the school to visit...
View ArticleFraudsters target Aylesbury Vale residents
Police have warned that a complex fraud operation is targeting people in Aylesbury Vale.Victims receive a phone call from an unknown man. He claims to be a police officer and asks for the victim’s bank...
View ArticleVale’s top cop calls on Tesco shoplifter to hand himself in
Aylesbury Vale’s police chief has called on a shoplifter who broke an elderly woman’s leg to hand himself in.The thief was trying to steal three bottles of whisky from Tesco in Tring Road when he...
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