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Free flights for children
February 19, 2001 10:08: DISABLED and disadvantaged children will be on cloud nine when pilots donate flights as part of a special flying day. Up to 500 children will be given 20 minutes circling the skies. Fly The Children Day 2001 is being organised
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Accountant wanted to die, inquest told
February 19, 2001 10:05: DEPRESSED accountant Ivan Channer had been talking about 'wanting to die' only hours before he took his own life by hanging himself, an inquest heard. Tom Grace, assistant deputy coroner for Buckinghamshire, returned a verdict
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RAFA still flying high
February 19, 2001 11:06: THE RAFA Club strengthened their grip at the top of the Wycombe and Amersham Darts League with a win over second place Cressex B. RAFA came away 9-6 winners on home turf thanks to some great finishing, the best of which came from
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Town's hockey team can't repeat success against Dons
February 19, 2001 10:59: WHILE Wycombe Wanderers entertained Wimbledon on Saturday the town's hockey team travelled to South London to visit a Wimbledon side currently third in the South Premier League. But while Wycombe's football team were able to hold
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Plan some fun this half term
February 19, 2001 13:57: WHAT do you do when half term looms? I asked colleagues. "What do I do? Panic," says one. Kate Barker, who lives in Little Chalfont and has boys aged two and rising-five, explains: "School holidays are always a problem now I've
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Teenager Osmaan helps launch Proof of Age cards
February 19, 2001 11:05: BIRTHDAY boy Osmaan Saeed turned sweet 16 just in time to be star-guest at the launch of a Proof of Age scheme this week. Trading standards are introducing the ID cards in High Wycombe as part of a bid to stamp out under-age drinking
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Better pay for county councillors to attract more people to stand for election
February 19, 2001 11:03: THE leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, David Shakespeare, is in line to get a salary of £40,000 a year from May. His deputy, Bill Chapple, will be on £29,500. The figures have been recommended by a three-man panel set up
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Man to swim Loch Ness... in Longwick?
February 19, 2001 11:07: A MAN is planning to swim 23 miles the length of the Loch Ness to raise money for a church project. But Gordon Lawson, of Stokes Croft, Haddenham, will be nowhere near Scotland, instead doing the gruelling swim at Princes Risborough's
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Gambler jailed after theft from neighbour
February 19, 2001 14:10: A MAN whose gambling problems led him to burgle a neighbour's home has been jailed for nine months. Paul Dutton, 21, who lived in Carrington Road, High Wycombe, at the time of the incident, was linked to the crime after DNA testing
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Police recruitment crisis is not over
February 19, 2001 11:12: POLICE boss Sir Charles Pollard warned the recruitment crisis in Bucks was far from over despite a proposed increase in officers' allowances. Cash-strapped officers are to have an extra £2,000 a year to try to help them cope with
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New hospital unit opens its doors
February 19, 2001 14:09: JOAN Guttridge is one of the first patients to be treated at the new critical care unit at Wycombe Hospital. The hospital recently celebrated the opening of the £1 million unit which houses latest state-of-the-art technology and
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Death driver fined
February 19, 2001 12:58: FORMER car repair centre manager Andrew Hearn hit a pedestrian in his car when the man staggered across the road from a nearby pub, a court heard. The pedestrian, Leo Batting, who had drunk up to 15 bottles of Smirnoff Ice, later
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Heroin kills addict, an inquest heard
February 19, 2001 10:14: RECOVERING heroin user Richard Millar had been fighting to overcome his addiction when a last small dose proved fatal. A High Wycombe inquest heard how the 25-year-old production runner had been receiving treatment to help him
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Wanderers draw Leicester in historic FA Cup run
February 18, 2001 18:28: WYCOMBE Wanderers have been drawn to play Leicester City in the quarter finals of the FA Cup if they win their replay against Wimbledon on Tuesday. The Blues earned a place in today's quarter finals draw after fighting their way
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Professionals arrested in the name of charity
February 19, 2001 10:17: PROFESSIONALS were arrested and charged or placed in stocks all in the name of charity. The Royal National Institute for the Blind held a jail 'em and bail em' day with the help of PCs Harriet Smith and Andy Dean. Wycombe district
