Baby joy for Aylesbury mayor
Aylesbury Town Mayor Tom Hunter-Watts has become a proud father following the birth of his son on Monday night.The mayor’s wife Ayse gave birth to their son at Stoke Mandeville Hospital at 10.40pm.The...
View ArticleWeather Watch: Now it’s likely to be one of the warmest winters on record
Meteorologists and climatologists classify winter as December, January and February which means there are only a couple of days of winter remaining.The winter has been characterised by an extraordinary...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s film preview: The Book Thief is serious, solid, but not really a...
The horrors of the holocaust from a child’s perspective provide the central theme for a sombre release that has to fight for attention this week against a couple of flashy and forgettable thrillers.The...
View ArticleRelegation threatens new-look Chinnor
Matt Goode says relegation is not a concern after his new-look Chinnor side slumped into the bottom four of the league.The Villagers, who had new coach Matt Williams on the sidelines and six new...
View ArticleWest slams ref as 10-man Thame hold on for point
Mark West said the sending off of debutant Marcus Mealing was ‘a very strange decision’ as Thame drew 1-1 with Binfield on Monday night.Thame were dumped out of the Supplementary Cup 4-3 on penalties...
View ArticleUPDATED: Hundreds of Aylesbury homes cut off from internet and phones because...
Thieves who targeted underground cabling caused hundreds of homes in Aylesbury to be without internet or landline access for nearly two weeks.Homes in the Tring Road and Bedgrove area were cut off but...
View ArticleHeadteacher of special measures school praised by Ofsted
An Ofsted inspector has praised the determination of the Mandeville’s headteacher as she tries to lift the school out of special measures.The school was lambasted by Ofsted in November when it said too...
View ArticleHistory to be made today with Paralympic flame ceremony
The first ever Paralympic Heritage Flame will be lit at Stoke Mandeville Stadium today as part of a spectacular ceremony.Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft will light the flame to celebrate the...
View ArticleBusiness Eye: Think about judgement day
One thing that a couple of decades sitting on the Bench as a Magistrate teaches you is that being certain about too much in life is a bit of a fool’s game.The best you can hope for is the wisdom to get...
View ArticleEditor’s Comment: I am a man with a plan for Aylesbury
Aylesbury has once again taken another encouraging step forward on the road to economic recovery.And after years of ‘will they won’t they’ Sainsbury’s now has full planning permission for a huge new...
View Article‘Academies are a boost for pupils’
Aylesbury’s eight academy schools are able to do more for their pupils by bypassing council funding according to one headteacher.Although the schools, which include Aylesbury High School, John Colet...
View ArticleCall for classical singers to take music club by ‘storm’
Classical singers and choirs are being called to perform at a popular open mic night when it returns next week. The First Thursday Music Club is a free live music event for a broad range of genres...
View ArticleEducation Eye: It has never been a better time to be an apprentice
Apprenticeships are growing in popularity among both employers and young people according to figures released recently by the National Apprenticeship Service:More than 7,180 Apprenticeship vacancies, a...
View ArticleCourt round-up (including Jack Daniels thief)
Cases coming before Aylesbury Magistrates Court include:IAN FRANCIS WARD, 45 of Blover Road, Leighton Buzzard. On January 11 in Aylesbury assaulted a woman by beating her. Pleaded not guilty on January...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: The Book Thief is a stodgy slog, go to the source...
“One small fact: you are going to die. Despite every effort, no one lives forever. Sorry to be such a spoiler. My advice is when the time comes, don’t panic. It doesn’t seem to help.”Those are the...
View ArticleMagician crowned British champ
Magician Paul Megram, known and loved by hundreds of Vale children as Colonel Custard, has been awarded a top magic award.The Aylesbury entertainer received the British Children’s Entertainer, National...
View ArticleChance to buy a bit of beautiful Bucks for as little as a couple of quid!
Six plots of land in the Bucks countryside are to go under the auctioneer’s hammer later this month – and they could go very cheaply indeed.The sites near the Wingrave crossroads just outside Aston...
View ArticleUPDATED: Two men killed in A413 crash
Two men, including a 60-year-old man from Aylesbury, died in a car crash on the A413 near Wendover this morning.At 6am a black Vauxhall Astra travelling from Amersham to Wendover collided with a grey...
View ArticleCut bureaucracy and save taxpayers millions, urges independent politician
A politician will tonight urge that district and county councils in Bucks are streamlined into one large authority, saving taxpayers millions of pounds.Independent district councillor Peter Cooper...
View ArticleAlan Dee: Victorian values may be attractive to some, but I’ll stick with the...
What can we conclude from the news that people living in the 21st century, with all its faults, plump for the Victorian age as the period of history they’d pick at a pinch?Well, all I can surmise is...
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