SECOND ANNUAL MEETING of the older persons group will be on Thursday, June 16 at 10.30am in the council chamber at the town hall. Membership is £3 a year and there is a quarterly newsletter.

Telephone Joy Pearce on 01494 775923 for more information.

The aim of the group is to air the views of the older generation on many matters which are of concern.

There are regular meetings with a speaker on the third Thursday of each month at 10.15am in the town hall.

Each meeting starts with coffee and biscuits. On the fourth Wednesday in the month the group meets at 11am in Cromwell House, Townsend Road.

FAIRTRADE for Chesham campaign has succeeded in achieving Fairtrade status for the town. Chesham is the first Fairtrade town in the Chiltern District and Bucks, apart from Milton Keynes.

Fairtrade Friday is on June 10 and it will celebrate Chesham achieving this Fairtrade status. A copy of the Fairtrade directory is at the town hall.

The directory has all the products available and where you can purchase them in the town.

A number of cafes in the town serve Fairtrade tea, coffee and hot chocolate including the Spot Light cafe, the Parisienne and Lucia's.

CHESHAM LIBRARY has lost some familiar faces. Sandra Milton, Cressida Belbin, Lesley Perry, Heather Boulter, Valerie Oldale, Julia Horold and Margaret Dixon have altogether provided our community with many years of service.

THE LATEST THING to be seen wearing is colourful wristbands in support of a charity for project. Since the cancer scare with Kylie I have been asked where you can get the pink wristbands for cancer research. They are available at £1 each from the cancer charity shop in the High Street.

THIS IS A BIT OF TRIVIA but for those who like their hot drinks from china cups McDonalds have now got proper mugs with handles. (It must save a lot of rubbish) OVER 50s travel club now has record number of members. Trips are mid-week and Saturdays. Bookings for all trips start one month prior to departure. This is intended to stop the block booking scenario.

The mailing list in in confidence and in no circumstances will it be passed to a third party. Chesham pick up points are Hivings Park Church, Greenway Parade, Sportsman pub, Emmanuel Church, Red Lion Street and Broadway.

There are car parking facilities, at owners risk, at Red Lion and Broadway.

Annual membership costs £3. If interest contact the secretary of the Over 50s Travel Club, Jill Hearing, 6 Nightingale Road, Chesham Bucks HP5 2DX. Telephone her on 01494 783676.

FORTHCOMING commemoration for the end of the Second World War will be held in Lowndes Park and is to be organised by Helen Loakes who is Poppy co-ordinator.

Proceeds will go to the anniversary appeal. There will be afternoon teas, a barbecue, a swing band and fun for all the family.

Kath Dolling came to the town as an evacuee and like it so much that she stayed on going to White Hill school.

CREAM TEAS on Sunday at Cholesbury Village Hall will be to raise money for Cancer Research.