Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
GRAFFITI depicting a white-hooded man and the letters KKK – the initials of far-right American group the Ku Klux Klan – has now been removed. Four spray painted stencil images were found on the ramps of the Marlow skate park in Higginson Park by a concerned passer-by, who sent Buckinghamshire County Council an email asking for them to de removed.
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
YOUNG beekeepers at a Risborough school were given a council donation of £1,000 after scooping a top award at the National Honey Show. The youngsters from Princes Risborough School were handed the windfall yesterday by Buckinghamshire County Councillor Dennis Green.
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
RESIDENTS will get the chance to see the facilities at a new care home in Buckinghamshire for themselves next week at a special preview.
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
A SPECIALIST care home providing care for the vulnerable elderly has opened its doors to residents. Icknield Court in Princes Risborough, a home dedicated to helping those with dementia and high care needs, has been accepting people from two other Buckinghamshire care homes.
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Designed back in the 1960s by Gresham Dodd, this mid-century-style house in the sought-after location of Jordans, Buckinghamshire is what you might call a 'project'. It's a single story house, with a design influenced by Mies van der Rohe, Craig...
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
THE chief executive of the Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust will answer questions about the future of Amersham Hospital on Tuesday night.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
A couple drove a rare albino hedgehog 120 miles after saving it from a busy road. The animal, named Casper by rescuers Nick and Julie Packham, from Pluckley, Kent, was taken to Tiggywinkles wildlife sanctuary in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to make sure it was given the correct care. Mrs Packham said: “We saw this white hedgehog – he was literally glowing.”
Good Food Shops (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Bakewell is the only town in the Peak District National Park. It's situated on the River Wye in Derbyshire (not to be confused with the River Wye which starts in Wales and flows into the River Severn or the River Wye which starts in Buckinghamshire and flows into the River Thames). It's a lovely town and a useful centre to explore Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall and the delightful South Peak area. No...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
"English Heritage yesterday announced a grant to save arguably the most horrible building it has ever attempted to rescue, the sprawling Victorian hulk of Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, which housed the equally ramshackle geniuses who broke Germany's second world war codes."...
Guitritus (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
This most hallowed of eves saw the first deployment of Got Carter, my current covers band of choice, upon the festively dead and decaying folk of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. We were top of the bill at the "The Cock Tavern" - a name to test a chap’s juvenility, if ever there was one - for their 2008 [...]
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
AN appeal has been lodged to the secretary of state to re-examine a planning application which would mean an 30 extra lorries a day travelling through Marlow’s streets. Buckinghamshire County Council sanctioned the plan to dig a new lagoon at Harleyford Marina in Henley Road, which would result in 60,000 tonnes of gravel being transported over a two-and-a-half to three year period, two weeks ago.
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
THE animal which was run over and killed on the Marlow bypass on Friday was a red deer – a species that is not native to Buckinghamshire.
Bucks Free Press | Local News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
DR Challoner’s High School in Amersham is closed on Monday because of a heating fault. The heating system is not working at the Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont school, Buckinghamshire County Council said.
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
ARTHUR Booker went to hell and back in Vietnam with his comrades from C Squadron of the 1st Armoured Regiment.
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
From The Guardian: Aravind Adiga's debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker prize this week. But its unflattering portrait of India as a society racked by corruption and servitude has caused a storm in his homeland. He tells Stuart...
