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Luke hopes home comforts can help him taste success
GOLF star Luke Donald returned home to High Wycombe this week to launch his bid for one of the biggest prizes in Europe. The former Beaconsfield and Hazlemere member is staying with his parents Ann and Colin while he competes in the BMW Championship
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Erinle wins his place in the England side
AYOOLA Erinle will make his first appearance for England's senior team when he starts against the Barbarians tomorrow. The Wasps centre, who was a late call-up to the squad, takes his place alongside clubmates Tom Voyce and Paul Sackey. The game at
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Blues sign midfielder
WANDERERS have beaten a number of clubs to sign Notts County play-maker Stefan Oakes. The 26-year-old has signed a two-year deal with The Chairboys and becomes manager John Gorman's second signing of the summer. And Gorman told fans they can expect
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MARLOW BOTTOM
KITCHEN DESIGN comes to the valley in real style, from tomorrow. Visage Kitchen Studio opens where Cokers used to be. Stefan and Maria Bomok have lived in the valley for a couple of years and have been running their business devoted to design and development
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MARLOW
TEAMS OF TEN paddlers plus one drummer are needed for the Dragon Boat Challenge, one of the features of the Town Regatta and Festival on Sunday, June 12. Teams will be given training on the day on how to handle the authentic dragon boats. To participate
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COOKHAM
COOKHAM DOCTORS have decided not to become involved in a Government scheme which will allow patients to choose which hospital they want for their treatment. This scheme, to be in operation by December, is to give all patients referred to hospital the
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WIDMER END
RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION will be meeting a week later than usual on Wednesday, June 8, for their monthly meeting. Held at the Guide Hut on North Road, this is the place to raise any issue of local concern, be it parking, hedges, planning, youth issues or
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WEST WYCOMBE
ST LAWRENCE'S CHURCH will be open on Sunday and Monday afternoons from 1pm to 5pm for teas. This is also an excellent opportunity to visit this fine church and perhaps climb up to the tower and enjoy the view. It is quite spectacular and something well
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TERRIERS & TOTTERDIGE
ON SUNDAY Norman Allen is opening up his garden to sell plants for charity. From 10am until 2pm there will be plenty of plants to buy at prices starting from just 50p. Go along to 274 Totteridge Road and help Norman raise much-needed funds for St Dunstans
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SEER GREEN
LION RAMPANT takes place at the Open Air Museum this weekend with a medieval pageant. There is always plenty for all the family at the Open Air Museum and it's close by without the need to travel long distances on traffic-congested roads. You might even
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PRESTWOOD
ANNUAL KNIT IN by ladies of the Evening WI will take place tomorrow outside Rusts Supermarket. As well as raising money for Arthritis Research, the squares knitted will be made into blankets and donated to Oxfam or local care homes. PRESTWOOD SOCIETY
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STOKENCHURCH
THANKS ARE due to Maureen who organised the Summer Sale in aid of the Meningitis Trust and in memory of her grandson and to all who attended to make this a wonderful effort with a profit of £1,064 for the trust. THE SUN did at least shine long enough
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RISBOROUGH
TEDDY BEAR event takes place this weekend on the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway. Each child with a teddy bear will travel free when accompanied by a fare paying adult. Tomorrow trains depart from Chinnor station at midday, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm
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PENN & TYLERS GREEN
BUG HUNT organized by Wycombe Wildlife takes place in Common Wood on Saturday, June 4 from 10.30am until 12.30pm. If you would like to find out more call 01494 813308 for details WI QUIZ EVENING takes place on Saturday, June 11 in the village hall. There
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LANE END
DISCO and barbecue tomorrow evening at the clubhouse in the playing fields at The Row is from 8pm. Get details from the clubhouse. VILLAGE FETE is barely two week's away so please phone Alison on 01494 882249 if you would like to reserve a pitch for
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NAPHILL
FETE COMMITTEE is pleased to learn that the assistant manager of Wycombe Wanderers, Steve Brown, will open the Naphill and Walter's Ash Fete on Saturday, June 11. He will also take an interest in the fete, especially the attractions which include football
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HOLTSPUR
FRIENDS of Seeleys House, which helps disabled people, urgently needs a secretary for their bi-monthly meetings in Beaconsfield. If you could help please phone Voluntary Action on 01494 793470. Seeleys House provides a day and respite service for young
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HOLMER GREEN
ON SUNDAY the Sports Association has a beer festival at the Sports Centre from midday until late. The cricket club have a match against Penn Street and the Model Railway has its first Open Day of the year. Steam train rides are available from 11am to
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LACEY GREEN & LOOSLEY ROW
THE WINDMILL will be open this Bank Holiday Monday in the afternoon. It is likely that if the weather is suitable the sails will be sweeping round. The windmill is an ideal place to see the working wooden technology of earlier times and it is also a mill
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HUGHENDEN VALLEY
REMEMBER there's the quiz night tomorrow in the village hall at 7pm, in aid of the Alzheimers Society. Latecomers may contact 01494 528046. Secondly, the art group's one-day workshop is tomorrow from 10am to 4pm and the contact number is 01494 563813.
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HIGH WYCOMBE
SUE BERRY, manager of Volunteer Focus based at the Priory Centre, tells me that 2005 has been designated as the Year of the Volunteer, and they are holding a Volunteers Week starting on Tuesday until Saturday, June 4 daily from 10am to 4pm. Thursday is
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HAZLEMERE
MANOR FARM SCOUTS would like to thank all those who supported the jumble sale last weekend, which raised over £600 for Scout funds. CRIB LEAGUE trophies were presented at the community centre with a disco and food making it an enjoyable evening. Division
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GREAT MISSENDEN
TWO LOVELY GARDENS at The Lee will be open to the public on Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 6pm. 2 Kingswood Cottages is a peaceful and relaxing two-acre garden enclosed by natural meadows and featured in BBC Good Homes magazine 2004. Kingswood House in
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HEDGERLEY
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS will be clearing the shrub, thistle and ragwort debris from Church Meadow. Why not try and spare a few hours on Saturday, June 4 to help. They will be meeting in Church Meadow at 10am.
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HADDENHAM
THE GLASS OF WINE offered to those attending the Annual Parish Meeting made them wonder if it had gone straight to their heads. There, in the middle of the village hall, was a 12 foot high white beam tree in full leaf. Displays around the hall revealed
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GREAT KINGSHILL
WINE TASTING evening held in the village on May 21 was most enjoyable. We were welcomed into the hall by a glass of bubbly and then tasted six other wines. While enjoying cheese and pate we held an informal judging ceremony and decided that we Great Kingshillians
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GERRARDS CROSS
ALL SAINTS CHURCH in Oval Way is planning some good music to celebrate June. On Saturday, June 11, a jazz evening kicks off their music festival with the Peak Trad Jazz Band at 7pm, which includes a barbecue supper. Tickets are £12 per head. On Sunday
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FRIETH
IF YOU would like to have a look at the orchids on Moorend Common in an organised way, join Alan and his natural historians on Tuesday, meeting at the Prince Albert pub at 10.30am, suitably wellied. Allow a couple of hours for the whole walk. GLOUCESTER
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FLACKWELL HEATH
SIX-A-SIDE football tournament on Bank Holiday Monday is at Green Dragon sports ground. Run by Flackwell Heath Minors, the under sevens, eights and 12s start at 9am and the under nines, tens and 11s start at 2.30pm. This is a prestigious competition for
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DOWNLEY
THANK YOU FROM CAROL and all the dedicated team at Maplewood School to those who supported the successful fashion show, which raised a fantastic £300, and the quiz night which raised an even more fantastic £1,500. This all goes towards the hydrotherapy
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CHESHAM
POND PARK Community Association of north Chesham will organise a fun day on Saturday, June 4, at Marston Field from midday to 4pm. They are also planning to refurbish Marston Field pavilion as a community centre. The event will include displays by the
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CHESHAM BOIS
A TALE of warning. I lost my filofax. What a nightmare - I couldn't check where I was supposed to be, what I was supposed to be doing, add dates, and, worst of all, I lost my entire address system. This proved to be particularly difficult as I needed
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BOURNE END/WOOBURN
CONGRATULATIONS to Forum Players who gave us a wonderful wartime reminder with their "VE" production. The show was great fun, especially the celebration of great British heroines, and the finale of wartime songs with lots of flag-waving was tremendous
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THE CHALFONTS
IS IT A KNOTTY CRAZE or an art form? Scoubidous are the latest playground craze and Activity Chest in Market Place, Chalfont St Peter has come up with an idea to encourage creativity with the Scoubidou Challenge. Make the most creative scoubidou you can
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BOOKER
CAR BOOT SALE on the Common on Monday, 8am to 12.30pm, is organised by the Horticultural Society. The charge for cars is £8 and for large vans etc £14. There's free parking for visitors. Refreshments will be on sale in the Memorial Hall. IF YOU were
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BEACONSFIELD
THAMES VALLEY Farmers' Market will be there tomorrow in the old market place at Windsor End. Stalls selling all types of food, fresh and home produced, will be open from 9am until 12.30pm. Organic foods will also be available and there is usually a plant
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AMERSHAM
AMERSHAM BAND will be in concert at the Free Church on Woodside Road tomorrow at 7.30pm. Featured with the band will be soprano Kathryn Oxley adding to what should be a very enjoyable evening's entertainment. The concert is being held in memory of the
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Madeleine’s got her sparkle back...
You are what you eat, but it was only after tests that a two-year-old's pot belly, smelly stools and vomiting were recognised as classic symptoms of gluten intolerance. Jenna Towler reports. MADELEINE McAllister wasn't the lively two-year-old she should
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I’m looking forward to us going grey
EastEnders has been going through a rough patch lately. But a couple of weeks ago one of their classic scenes surfaced out of the dross. As usual it was June Brown as Dot Cotton who stole the scene. The topic of her conversation with the ever-whingeing
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Bucks Free Press Editor
IN the week that that the Bucks Free Press moves to our brand new offices at Loudwater Mill we dug this picture out of the archives. It was taken in our vacated premises in Gomm Road, High Wycombe, home to the paper since 1956. The picture shows former
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Woodside Junior School
GOOD behaviour has earned the pupils at Woodside Junior School in Mitchell Walk, Amersham, the esteemed title of Class of the Week. Year Five pupils used to be known as the noisy class but in the last three weeks teacher Seema Ilyas says they have
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MP gets food for thought
HEALTH-conscious under-fives at a Beaconsfield school have been showing off what's packed inside their lunch boxes to MP Dominic Grieve. Mr Grieve helped the pre-school pupils at Oakwood Nursery School to prepare snacks from fruits and vegetables when
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Revisiting wartimes gone by
CHESHAM High School pupils are using web-based technology to build an interactive archive about life in the town during the Second World War. Pupils are asking people to contact them with first-hand information on this period so they can record their
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A packed summer season at museum
MEDIEVAL knights, Roundheads and Cavaliers, Home Guard soldiers and even the units from Wellington's army preparing for the Battle of Waterloo can be seen at a variety of special events over the next few months at Chiltern Open Air Museum. Our summer
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Two more years of ‘invasions’
SO Wasps have decided to grace us with two more years of invasions of what was once a peaceful Chiltern Valley. Then begins their haggling to have the stadium enlarged to admit 15,000 people as against the 10,000 eventually forced upon the local authority
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Election view ‘breathtaking nonsense’
MAY I thank the many thousands of people who voted for me at the general election, and the many thousands more in the constituency who did not vote for the Liberal Democrats this time, but who wished us well. The campaign was fought in a positive and
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Paradox of speed limits
I READ with amazement Kris Hall's sanctimonious and patronising piece about speeding on Marlow Hill (Straight Talking, May 10). As a grade six driving instructor of more than 20 years experience, and having not been caught speeding on Marlow Hill or
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NHS hospitals make me sick
SOMEONE close to me was discharged from hospital last week after being given a clean bill of health. Once home my friend, whose child was born prematurely, lavished praise on the doctors and nurses who had cared for her during a ten-day stay at the hospital
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‘He was an inoffensive and charming gentleman’
FRIENDS of murdered pensioner Alan Irwing have spoken of their shock and anger after learning of his death. Tributes have flooded in for the 74-year-old widower who was returning home from a night of dancing when he was attacked yards from his home.
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Ice work at charity seahorse ball
CELEBRITY art has helped to raise thousands of pounds at auction for the fifth National Society for Epilepsy annual Seahorse Ball. An auction of hand-drawn ink sketches by the stars, a signed Elton John CD, and a holiday for two on Richard Branson's
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Gold and silver could be yours
RESIDENTS in South Bucks could receive a cash prize simply for bothering to use their recycling box properly. Over the next year, 12 gold tickets, worth £150 each, and 52 silver tickets, worth £30 each, will be dispatched randomly into filled recycling
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CBF stay top of the table despite loss
CBF remain top of the Cressex Synthetic Pitch Six-A-Side League despite their first defeat of the season. They lost 2-1 to Wycombe Hermits thanks to goals by Ben Chadbone and Kevin Blunt but stay top on goal difference from Wycombe Town A after they
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Three in a row for Wasps but they can’t keep the trophy
THE Zurich Premiership Trophy that Wasps clinched last Saturday is set to be displayed at the Museum of Rugby at Twickenham. Wasps had been hoping to keep the trophy after winning it for the third time in a row, especially as the cup was presented for
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Wanderers’ new boy is in a hurry
WANDERERS new-boy Charlie Griffin signed a two-year deal with the Chairboys last Thursday and then warned the club's other strikers that he hasn't come to keep the bench warm. Manager John Gorman signed the 25-year-old former Forest Green hitman on a
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New mayor weighs in
EVEN a spring deluge could not dampen spirits as dozens of shoppers flocked to watch the annual weighing in of High Wycombe's new town mayor. The Mayor Making ritual, which is unique to the town and dates back to 1678, took centre stage in Frogmoor
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74-year-old man battered to death
THE son of murdered pensioner Alan Irwing has pleaded for the public to help catch his father's killers. Ross Irwing, whose father was battered to death last Thursday evening, said: "I was just wondering why nobody has come forward. People can't go on
