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Celebrate with Palace Tandoori
GREAT food, fabulous surroundings and superb service is exactly what you can expect at Palace Tandoori. The restaurant in Station Road, West Drayton, has been open now for 15 years and is a wonderful place for an evening out. Owner Mr Zaman has been
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El Nomad: Experience a taste of the Middle East
Ihad heard of Lebanese cuisine and considered visiting restaurants but I have never been adventurous enough to take the plunge and book a table. However after one visit to Elnomad in the High Street, Ruislip, I have become completely converted and will
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Parents’ concerns over the future of Oak Farm Clinic
The Hillingdon & Uxbridge Times has teamed up with Hillingdon Primary Care Trust to keep you informed about major developments in health where you live. Each month the newspaper will feature an article from the trust addressing any concerns you might
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MPs need to act on youth trouble to protect future
I WAS so angry and disgusted by the article (OAP dies after doorstep row) in your April 14 edition. I was even more disappointed in John Randall's statement that people shouldn't be afraid to speak out. Every day I read the same type of sad news in the
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Thanks to Red Cross helpers
ON behalf of the British Red Cross, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the charity over the last 12 months. Thanks to your help, the Red Cross was able to support more than 800,000 vulnerable people in the UK alone, and many thousands more
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Focus should be on crime this election
WITH elections on, all candidates in this area are promising more police and action on law and order. I'm glad to hear it. I had my window shot at last year. I dialed 999 and was told to ring the local number. After asking me five times to spell my address
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The people we count on to get the result right on the night
ALTHOUGH the May 5th date for the parliamentary and county council elections was set four weeks ago, the work of the deputy returning officer for the Wycombe constituency began more than five months earlier. Preparation for the general and county council
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A day in a life less ordinary
MP at work: Beaconsfield MP Dominic Grieve talks about life inside the Shadow Cabinet. BEACONSFIELD'S MP, Dominic Grieve, has been a busy man over the last 18 months. Rising through the ranks of the Tory Party, with his personal appointment by leader
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Spotlight on the County Council Elections
THE count of the votes to elect 57 members of Buckinghamshire County Council began on Friday. Although polling was Thursday, at the same time as that for Buckinghamshire's MPs, the county council count was left to the following day so that tired tellers
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Buckingham
POCKET battleship John Bercow won a resounding victory to take the Buckingham seat for a third term. The fiery Conservative, who is renowned for his performances in the House of Commons, first won the seat in 1997 when he took over from George Walden
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Aylesbury
CONSERVATIVE David Lidington predicted he would hold onto the Aylesbury seat, and was true to his word. Mr Lidington said he expected Liberal Democrats candidate Peter Jones to be his nearest opponent when he arrived at last night's count at Aylesbury
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Chesham and Amersham
Cheryl Gillan admitted she was as nervous as a kitten on Thursday but at the end of the night she was the cat that got the cream. Mrs Gillan and the four other parliamentary candidates for the Chesham and Amersham seat waited until 4.15am to find out
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Beaconsfield
Dominic Grieve was in high spirits at the electoral counts in Beaconsfield. In the fourth safest Conservative seat in the country the outcome was never going to be in question. But his opponents were all happy with the respective progress they made in
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Wycombe
TORY Paul Goodman was returned to Parliament in on Friday morning after an emphatic victory. Mr Goodman, 45, more than doubled his majority in the Wycombe and Marlow constituency when the result was announced at 2.15am. Tories polled 20,331 votes beating
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Wanderers win the cup fair and square
WYCOMBE Wanderers won the Berks and Bucks Cup for the first time in 15 years and then won even more accolades for their amazing sporting behaviour in the final. Assistant manager Steve Brown ordered his side to stand aside and let Aylesbury score a
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Swan designer’s death shocks ex-colleagues
THE man who built the Wycombe Swan theatre has died just weeks after his wife was accused of murdering their son. Paul Markcrow, 70, of Long Crendon, Oxfordshire, died on Friday, April 15, from natural causes. On March 29, Wendy Markcrow, 66, was charged
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Breakfast Bill caues a buzz at Rotary meeting
BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull was guest of honour at a meeting of Beaconsfield Rotary last Tuesday. The seasoned journalist gave an enlightening talk about the charity Bees for Development which helps people living in poor and remote areas of
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Top teacher suspended: parents informed
THE parents of children at the Royal Grammar School have received a letter explaining the suspension of a senior member of staff over allegations of indecent assault. Deputy headmaster, Nicholas Cousins, 51, was charged on Thursday, April 28, with four
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Speed fines kept secret
ROAD safety bosses say the public should be barred from knowing how many drivers have been caught speeding by mobile cameras on Marlow Hill, High Wycombe. The Free Press has been inundated with complaints from motorists infuriated by the "unfair" placement
