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A dance for Joshua
SCHOOL pupils were treated to a colourful dance performance to help them understand the lessons of personal loss. Danesfield School, in Rasslers Wood, Medmenham, hosted the performance by the Springs Dance Company on Tuesday, dedicated to the tragic
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Protestors’ delight at mast fight win
OBJECTORS to a controversial phone mast have won their battle against the planning decision that allowed it to go up just metres from their homes. Residents felt so strongly about the T-Mobile mast in Wycombe Road that they submitted their case for judicial
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Reprieve, for now, for through-trains
LONDON Underground chiefs have announced the Chesham through-train service will continue for another year. The reprieve follows public consultation which showed that 86 per cent of residents were against plans to remove it. However, a decision to axe
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Chesham becomes first Bucks town to win Fairtrade status
A HARD earned certificate was officially awarded to Chesham when it became the first town in Buckinghamshire to qualify for Fairtrade status. Fiona Castle, widow of the late Roy Castle, presented the Fairtrade certificate on behalf of the Fairtrade
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Ozzy’s gig ‘did not cause power cut’
ROCKER Ozzy Osbourne played an intimate gig thrilling Bucks fans with his brand of 70s heavy metal. The Chalfont St Peter-based star played with his band Black Sabbath at Aylesbury Civic Centre as a warm up concert before his appearance at the Download
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Charity’s bid to build on green belt denied
A LEADING charity's bid to change green belt boundaries so it can build new homes to raise millions of pounds has been thrown out. The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE), based in Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter, is bidding to build homes on part of
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Teen terror was ‘danger to everyone’
A YOUTH who committed his first offence when he was nine has been electronically tagged in a bid to stop him terrorising his neighbourhood. Haroon Rashid, 14, of Pond Park Road, Chesham, was handed a two-year Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) after
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Back the bid
THE Area Sports Council are calling on Free Press readers to Back the Bid and help bring the 2012 Olympics and paralympics to London. Sports Councils throughout the country want the public to register their support by logging onto www.london2012.com.
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Hayes will walk if fans don’t share his passion
STEVE Hayes says he will walk away from Blues in five years if fans don't match his passion for the club. He said: "If it doesn't work and I can't get the interest of the town and we can't get attendances up, even with producing good football, I don't
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Mooney: Why I turned down four bigger clubs to join the Wanderers revolution
STRIKER Tommy Mooney revealed he turned down four League One clubs to join Wycombe because he expects to be playing in that division with Wanderers in 12 months time. The former Birmingham and Watford star had been in talks with a number of other League
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Nuclear waste was mooted for district
SECRET documents released by the Government have revealed High Wycombe was a potential base to store radioactive waste. A 195-acre MOD site in the town which has not been named in the town was one of 537 locations across the UK to be geologically assessed
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Last moments of tragic Abi
A 19-YEAR-OLD woman from Seer Green had suffered from severe depression and eating disorders for three years before killing herself in woods near her home, an inquest heard. Abigail Wiggins, who lived in Long Bottom Lane with her family, was found hanging
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Royal seal of approval
UPSTANDING members of the south Bucks community have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Michael Phelan, of Penn Road, Beaconsfield, said he was surprised to receive an OBE, after he was acknowledged for his services to the Roman Catholic
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Benefit cheat pleads: Don’t put me in jail
A MOTHER of four who confessed to defrauding taxpayers of more than £22,000 has begged not to be sent to prison. Kerry Ann Bryant, of Clarke Drive, High Wycombe, said she did it for her children in a bid to save them from being bullied at school for
