TROUBLED singer Amy Winehouse is rumoured to be house hunting in south Buckinghamshire.

The 24-year-old is reported to have asked aides to search for properties in Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, Chalfont St Peter and Denham.

She is said to want to move to the countryside, away from the media spotlight in London.

Winehouse's soul, jazz and R&B album, Black to Black, saw her rise to fame last year and earned her five Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, two Ivor Novello Awards and a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize.

She lives in flat in Bow, East London, but has been staying in a hotel in the capital since leaving a rehabilitation clinic earlier this month.

"That flat holds too many bad memories for Amy", a source told The Sun newspaper.

"It's where she was filmed smoking crack and she wants to put that behind her. She considered returning to her old haunts in Camden for a while, then moving in with Kelly Osbourne.

"But now she wants to move out of London and buy a house in the country.

"Hopefully a move from London will also be a move away from temptation."

If she moves to south Bucks, her celebrity neighbours would include her friend Kelly Osbourne, plus Cilla Black, Vernon Kay and Tess Daly, Barry Gibb and Des O'Connor.