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Wycombe 1 Barnet 0
WANDERERS assistant manager Steve Brown hopes Saturday's narrow win over Barnet will kickstart the Blues' promotion drive after four matches without a win. He said: "After four draws it's a breath of fresh air to finally get a win and hopefully we can
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A hair-raising stunt to dye for
I'M dyeing to help charity this week by offering to change my hair colour for a good cause. I will get rid of my famous grey locks if I can secure at least £500 in sponsorship pledges. No, this isn't a midlife crisis. I've been perfectly happy with
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Take a walk on the wild side
Summer is almost over, but with that comes a change in the seasons which brings new colours, smells and some of nature's best sights. As the days draw in and the temperature drops, changes are happening all around us. The fields that were once brimming
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Now’s the time to think of bulbs
As summer comes to an end, it's time to load up your patio pots and containers with spring bulbs to give you some welcome splashes of colour from February to May. While many people prefer to cram their containers with a single variety of a particular
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Strok's Restaurant at Taplow House Hotel
I'VE been quite happy to grab the biggest onions in sight whenever I want to add flavour to a casserole or stirfry. The larger the onions, the less hassle with peeling and chopping and less time to cry. Last week I had to rethink the habits of a lifetime
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Getting a Hollywood smile
MAKING that great first impression is made so much easier with a great smile. Be it at your first job interview or that all important first date, your teeth are a big asset on the road to seduction or success. Just think of all those film stars
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Revamped and gorgeous
British Home Stores is back with a vengeance, offering the latest high street trends at value for money prices, writes Francine Miller. A new season, new designs and new campaigns to win back the core customers that so many fashion houses see as the
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How the dog got in the bucket
A talking dog with a bucket on his head might sound bizarre but Michael Grant believes his comic cartoon creation could go on to rival Snoopy, Garfield and even Bart Simpson. Michael, 42, unearthed Hackman: a Dog in a Bucket after a routine business
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His brilliant career
Ned Sherrin, broadcaster, playwright, producer, director and occasional actor, has nearly reached the age of 75, although you would never know it. His energy and enthusiasm for the world of media may be waning somewhat, but it is only by his own admission
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Roadside deaths preserved
A new display by contemporary artist June Kingsbury examines the fragility of life and the incorporation of nature into material things. This small installation at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum features glass and porcelain casts of animals
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‘I thought we were going to be shot’
There was a moment in his life that John Suchet, one of the most recognisable faces and voices of television news, thought he and his crew were going to die, and that he would be responsible. It is one of many stories he will relate during his tour
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Cinderella Man (12A)
The US opening of Cinderella Man was overshadowed by a certain incident involving a Hollywood star, a hotel attendant and a flying telephone. It's a shame that Russell Crowe's real life fracas stole the film's thunder, though. This fact-based fable
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Another route to that place in the sun
In ten years, the number of British households owning a holiday home abroad has soared from 280,000 to nearly 400,000 and the "no frills" airlines boom means the figure could keep climbing. For 22 years, The Holiday Property Bond (HPB) has used investments
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How to hammer down the price of property
PROPERTY auctions are becoming increasingly popular, with the top 20 commercial and residential auctioneers seeing a 16 per cent increase in sales. Last year, properties sold at auction came to a total value of £3.38 billion and more and more people
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Help for first-time buyers
RAISING the deposit for a property is usually the hardest hurdle to overcome, but now new buyers are being given a helping hand. Connells has launched a new scheme to help first-time buyers on to the property ladder by offering a buy-now, no-deposit-required
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Mum, Dad, please can you buy me a house?
FIRST-time buyers are increasingly relying on their parents to help them get on the property ladder, says a new report. A survey by high-street mortgage broker Bradford & Bingley has found one in six first-time buyers 16 per cent have either borrowed
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Strauss was a wicket-keeper when he waltzed into the Gerrards Cross side
ASHES hero Andrew Strauss was originally a wicket-keeper for his first club, a Gerrards Cross stalwart has revealed. England's opening batsman, who hit a century in the final Test to help give England their first series win over Australia since 1987,
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100th Birthday for Evelyn Clark
EVELYN Clark celebrated her 100th birthday on September 2, and was overjoyed to receive a card from The Queen. Miss Clark, a former electricity board worker in High Wycombe, celebrated her birthday in Meadowside Residential Home, Marlow, with around
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Peter and Brenda Darrington
BRENDA and Peter Darrington celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at a family reunion with a congratulatory telegram from The Queen. The couple, who live in High Wycombe, first met at the age of 14 when their families were evacuated from London to
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Teen Talk with Ashfa Rani
The day I had been waiting for had finally arrived. Thursday, August 25, the day GCSE results came out! Like many others in the same situation, I was very nervous and worried. However, when I saw my results, the anxiety soon turned to happiness. I
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Art students’ exam marks are perfectly formed
CREATIVE students from Sir William Ramsay School are celebrating after getting perfect marks in their art exams. The GCSE and A-level pupils were amongst an elite band in the country to not drop a single mark. The school in Rose Avenue, Hazlemere, is
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Donors needed for red kites
A NEW scheme has been launched by the Chiltern Conservation Board to raise public awareness about red kites. The birds of prey, an endangered species, were reintroduced into the Chilterns area between 1989 and 1994. In that time 93 birds were introduced
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Countryside group hoping it’s on path to route success
PRINCES Risborough Countryside Group have met to discuss a new footpath leading up to Brush Hill after receiving a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Members of the group met with Wycombe District Council rangers to determine a route for a new footpath
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Chance to see hidden Victorian garden
STAFF and volunteers at Hughenden Manor are hard at work restoring a Victorian walled garden back to prominence. After remaining unseen by visitors for many years, a decision has been made to open up the garden and try to recreate the area as it may
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‘Road too busy for nursery’
A PARENT from Loudwater is fighting to stop a day nursery opening in her busy street. An application has been made to Wycombe District Council by a resident in Robinson Road to convert part of her property into a day nursery for 12 children. However
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Were you part of cricket team?
THE ASHES are firmly back in the hands of the English last week and in the summer of 1951 it looks like the Booker Cricket Team had clinched another sporting trophy. These band of cricketers are sitting, with arms folded, looking proud of their achievement
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New training school opens for those dealing with the dead
THIS month the Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust celebrated the launch of a new training school for pathologists at Wycombe Hospital. Paul Leat discovers what the training school will bring to Wycombe and the role of the science in modern medicine
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Our furry old tom is really just a hungry con artist
IHAVE regularly battled with my daughters over their reluctance to do anything (or worse to allow me to do anything) that may turn out to be "embarrassing". Unhelpfully, anything that is visible or audible to a third party seems to fall into that category
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Waitrose matters
WYCOMBE district councillors are to be congratulated for comprehensively rejecting Waitrose's current proposals for Marlow at the special development control committee meeting in Marlow on Monday. It was particularly gratifying to see the resolute
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Welfare matters
THIS is the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the Royal Air Forces Association, High Wycombe branch welfare department is launching a campaign to identify and help elderly ex-RAF people and dependents who might be in need. We are asking
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Special honesty
"NO news is good news" is an old adage which I wish to interrogate today. I want to report on the kindness of human nature, restore faith in human solidarity and celebrate the helpfulness of members of our local community. My 14-year-old daughter was
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Very fast police
I AGREE with Carl Karshagen that non-visible speed cameras should reduce speeding. It should in particular be a deterrent to the police who are involved inthousands of accidents a year. It might even deter one off-duty policeman who "tested" his vehicle
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Being selective
WITH reference to the letter from Michael Wilson referring to Bea Bradley (letter, September 2) may I respectfully suggest he has been selective in his quoting of the Burns Report re: Hunting. He suggests that that the writer continues to ignore the
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Sickened by it
MICHAEL Wilson (letters September 9) uses the Burns Report to conclude that the ban on foxhunting will lead to foxes being killed by other methods. I know the report well, and attended the inquiry amongst others. I have also collected much evidence from
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Parking on Rye
OVER the summer I have wanted to spend time with my family using the amenities at The Rye. However, I was unable to spend the time I wanted at the park because of the council's new initiative to charge people for parking at The Rye. It wasn't the
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Don’t panic, Captain Manewaring
WELL never in my life have I seen such breathtaking idiocy as I witnessed this week. Roads being jammed as motorists queued to fill up on fuel to prevent being caught up in the non-existent petrol shortage. I felt like screaming "Don't panic, Captain
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Sign aims to placate drivers after delay
MOTORISTS frustrated that they have been stopped using Bridge Street car park in High Wycombe, when there is no start to building work there on the town's multimillion pound redevelopment project, have been given a sign. Wycombe District Council put
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Safety fears over assault
SCHOOL children in Holmer Green are still being urged to have their parents pick them up after an assault on a young girl in the village. On Wednesday, September 7, a ten-year-old was walking to her friend's house along Harries Way from the corner
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Ex Mayor adds her support
As a local girl I would like to offer my wholehearted support to the Bucks Free Press campaign Hand Back Our Hospital. With the town still growing we need our hospital to be fully equipped to cope with any demand put on it's services. Like many
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Fury as burglars steal kids' cash
A FATHER has spoken of his horror after burglars crept through the bedroom of his two children while they slept and then stole £8,000 in goods from the family home. Burglars broke into the Thompson family home in Egham Green, Bourne End, between midnight
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Plans for dangerous crossroads revealed
PLANS to reduce the number of crashes at the Culverton crossroads on the A4010 were unveiled at a public consultation in Lacey Green. The exhibition, at the Millennium Hall, in Main Road, follows calls from residents to reduce the number of crashes
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Business worried housing not meeting workforce demand
NOT everyone thinks the housing growth figures for the south of the county, or even for south east England, are right. Some business people say the local figures will not meet the housing need of a growing workforce and of business. Bob Newell, chairman
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Go with the sporting flow – play your part
ENGLAND has taken the Ashes back at last though I have to say that, ardent cricket fan though I am, I didn't have the mental strength to watch much of the test series this summer, let alone the last game. Far too harrowing. The result has prompted the
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New homes figures ‘low’
DISTRICTS in the south of the county have done well in terms of the number of new houses likely to be built there over the next 20 years, say planners. The numbers suggested in Wycombe, south Bucks and Chiltern districts are as low or lower than those
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Wycombe Wanderers 3-8 Aston Villa
What a match, what a game, what a result. Wycombe's progress in the Carling Cup has ground to a halt but what a way to go. It was wonderful football. Wycombe fans thought they had cracked it at half time when the scoreboard read Wycombe 3 Villa 1.
