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What's coming up in the weeks ahead
THE Buckinghamshire heats for the Dance: Make Your Move competition are on March 3 and 17 at The Beaconsfield School. The nationwide competition raises money for the British Red Cross and groups who reach the finals will perform at London's Indig02
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Chalfont St Giles Youth Club extension plan approved
A YOUTH Club has been given a new lease of life after plans to extend it to create a sports hall were approved this week. Youngsters using the Chalfont St Giles Youth Club will now have access to better facilities after Chiltern District Council gave
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Chaplain moves on to pastors new
WYCOMBE’S Mayoral Chaplain bade farewell to his congregation as he led a service at the town centre’s church for the final time. Canon David Picken gave his last service at All Saints church this morning during a special civic service to mark
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Young Guns feel success in their Bones
YOUNG Guns are excited. Not only is the band about to embark on a headline tour, but the rockers are also set to release their second album, Bones, which was written in a shed in Little Marlow. Victoria MacFarlaine reports. YOUNG Guns’ eagerly-anticipated
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Ex-football star seeks youngsters to help racing team reach Le Mans
A FORMER England footballer hopes to curb youth unemployment by encouraging teens to run his south Bucks-based motor racing team headed for Le Mans. England and Watford striker Luther Blissett has put his football boots to the back of the cupboard
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Huge spend on HS2 cannot be justified
I have no personal axe to grind as far as the impact of HS2 on my life is concerned. It will be miles away from my home and therefore I cannot be accused of being a nimby if I say, ‘Why?’ Why do we all need to get to places more and more quickly? Why
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Remember the lesson of Dr Seuss’ Lorax
RE: Letters in the January 6 edition headlined ‘Climate change is natural’ and ‘old bulbs are brilliant’. FROM the look of BFP’s first letters column 2012, readers look set to continue sailing along solo, making sense of climate reality unaided by
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Annie performers help complete African orphanage
SHORTLY after performing Annie at The Elgiva in Chesham one of the lead characters and his wife, Judy, headed to Tanzania to help complete an orphanage. Steve Martins, who played Oliver Warbucks, and his wife, Judy, who also performed in the
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MP questioned about HS2 on student radio
MP Cheryl Gillan was interviewed on student radio about HS2 during a visit to Amersham and Wycombe College. When Mrs Gillan paid the college’s Amersham campus a visit last Friday, media student, Lauren Rooney, 18, fired the questions on the hot topic
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Donations follow charity theft
A LIONS club donated £50 to a cleft lip and palate charity after money was stolen out of a collection tin in a pub. As reported in December, Ana Hobbs was left fuming after a tin she had placed in The Crown in Hazlemere was tampered with and the money
