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Angry man rams car
February 6, 2001 11:23: BITTER husband Nigel Hands deliberately rammed a car he thought was being driven by his mother-in-law Cynthia Kirtland, a court heard. But he was stunned when his wife, soon to be ex-wife, and children clambered out of the wreck
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Tributes pour in for arthur
February 6, 2001 9:48: TRIBUTES have poured in following the death of former Bucks Free Press editor and columnist Arthur Church who died in the early hours of Sunday, aged 89, from lung cancer. Bill Tilley, who took over as editor of the Bucks Free Press
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Popstars start recording in secret
February 6, 2001 10:58: WANNABE celebrities from the hit TV series Popstars are reported to be recording songs at a studio in Buckinghamshire. The exact location where the five band members are laying down tracks is top secret. It looks likely that the
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Stuart rescues quake victim
February 6, 2001 9:25: HERO Stuart Kinsey has told how he helped rescue a man buried beneath the rubble after the earthquake in India which killed thousands of people. Stuart, 35, from Fernhurst Close, Beaconsfield, has just returned home after being
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Facing the extra costs
February 6, 2001 12:01: WYCOMBE District Council tenants, with effect from April, have an inflation-busting 7.8 per cent increase to their rent. Also the variety of increased taxation is no laughing matter. To cap it all this increase is to disregard
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Parents and pupils who just won't walk
February 6, 2001 12:00: ALL over the country there are a lot of parents who twice a day put the lives of their children and other road users at risk by driving sometimes for just a minute or two and then parking outside schools as they disgorge their
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The sense of achievement white cross gave me
February 6, 2001 11:59: WHAT has happened to the wonderful landmark overlooking Princes Risborough? I look back at pictures from 1890 right up until 1990, the Whiteleaf Cross stood "whiter" than ever, a grand feature marking our wonderful town and the
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Straight Talking
February 6, 2001 11:40: ALTERNATIVE POP SINGERS DO you remember the song American Pie which talked about 'the day the music died'? Well, dear reader, for me that day was Saturday. Like thousands of others I applied to the TV show Pop Stars in which five
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Budget comes up with extra £1.3m
February 6, 2001 9:51: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE County Council leader David Shakespeare has come up with an extra £1.3 million to spend on goodies next year in his first budget under the modernised cabinet structure. He is putting £500,000 to help fight the county's
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Pedestrians hit with baseball bat
February 6, 2001 11:32: THUGS have targeted pedestrians in a bizarre series of assaults when people were struck with baseball bats from moving cars. Five people were injured in the incidents which took place on Friday night. The first assault occurred
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Opinions vary on school site's fate
February 6, 2001 11:22: RESIDENTS in Hazlemere met on Friday to discuss the future of the Cedar Park School site. The meeting was organised by district and parish councillor Les Taylor, who wants community facilities rather than the old people's home
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Health shop manager threatened with knife
February 6, 2001 9:50: STORE manager Gareth Lang was threatened with a knife and ordered to hand over cash when his shop was raided. Mr Lang, of Holland and Barrett, Sycamore Road, Amersham, was serving what he thought was a customer when the man produced
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Popstars start recording in secret
February 6, 2001 9:37: WANNABE celebrities from the hit TV series Popstars are reported to be recording songs at a studio in Buckinghamshire. The exact location where the five band members are laying down tracks is top secret. Hooked viewers saw the final
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Sraight talking
February 6, 2001 11:39: ALTERNATIVE POP SINGERS DO you remember the song American Pie which talked about 'the day the music died'? Well, dear reader, for me that day was Saturday. Like thousands of others I applied to the TV show Pop Stars in which five
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Shooters help with pheasant conservation
February 6, 2001 11:58: I WAS compelled to write after seeing the photo of ladies rejoicing, in what was described as a victory for the rights of the pheasant not to be bred and shot over a 400-acre estate owned by John Lewis Partnership. Are we to assume
