Morrisons launches checkout promise
Supermarket chain chain Morrisons has today made a “checkout promise” that it will open extra checkouts for customers if there is more than one person ahead of them in a queue.A Morrisons spokesman...
View ArticleTravel: Poldark’s pull to Cornwall
Climbing a cliff-top path weaving through an endless carpet of heather, I look up to see a series of mines on the horizon. gghAt St Agnes Head, which doubles for Nampara Valley in popular BBC drama...
View ArticleFlooding alerts issued in Aylesbury and Thame area after torrential rain
Flooding alerts have been sent out by the Environment Agency for two rivers in the Aylesbury area.People living near the Bear Brook tributaries in the Aylesbury area, as well as Wendover and Weston...
View ArticleFilm review: Tasty zombie action with a gifted girl
Matt Adcock reviews (and appears in) The Girl With All The GiftsMeet Melanie – she’s a special girl. Bright, polite and caring, full of wide-eyed wonder at the world around her – oh , and she’s not...
View ArticleMary Berry quits Great British Bake Off
Mary Berry has this morning quit Great British Bake Off after show’s move to Channel 4, saying she will stay with BBC out of “loyalty”It follows the announcement that Me and Sue will “not go with the...
View ArticleThree wins from three for red-hot Chinnor
Chinnor made it three wins from three games this season when they beat Redruth 21-5 to move third in National League Division Two South. Redruth started brightly and applied pressure from the outset,...
View ArticleSmartphones are even changing the way we eat
Until very recently, using a phone at the dinner table was frowned upon.But now, this seemingly anti-social behaviour is becoming much more commonplace - with 18 per cent of Britons admitting to...
View ArticleReview: Explosive fun with the Seven but short of magnificent
Matt Adcock reviews The Magnificent Seven (12A), starring Denzel WashingtonSaddle up for some good ol' rootin’ tootin’ slick gun-slinging action on the big screen as action director Antoine ‘Training...
View ArticleTackling the misperceptions of Center Parcs
Center Parcs as a family getaway is pretty much unrivalled but it is also often burdened by unfair misperceptions.There is a common view that a weekend away at Center Parcs is a full on, intense...
View ArticleThe bad habits of the UK’s drivers
Using mobile phones while driving rates as the worst habit among fellow motorists, according to a new report.Other drivers using mobiles without a hands-free kit were noted by 70 per cent of those...
View ArticleCOLUMN: Special relationship, but many differences between the UK and US
I’ve just returned from a trip to Chicago, to do a bit of music writing and enjoy the hospitality of our cousins across the pond. It was a wonderful trip in so many ways, the city was welcoming, the...
View ArticleAnd the cat came back! Bubbles reunited with owner after a year missing
A man who said he had lost hope of finding his cat when it disappeared has been reunited with his beloved moggy.Bubbles, a four-year-old domestic shorthair went missing from owner Peter Clift’s then...
View ArticleHigh-flying Thame put five past Brimscombe
Thame United overcame traditional bogey side Brimscombe & Thrupp on Tuesday in a resounding 5-1 away victory that saw strike force Andy Gledhill and Lynton Goss increase their combined tally to 39...
View ArticleHigh-flying Chinnor demolish lowly Barnstaple to go second
In-form and high-flying Chinnor maintained their blistering start to the season on Saturday when they dismantled bottom side Barnstaple 76-5 in National League Division Two South. The tone was set as...
View ArticleCruel owners dump baby pet rats at the side of Aylesbury road - and chances...
The RSPCA is appealing for information after nine baby pet rats were dumped on a pile of sawdust at a roadside in Aylesbury.The rats, thought to be less than a few weeks’ old, were left on a grass...
View ArticleCould you afford the Friends apartment or the Simpsons’ house on Evergreen...
If you questioned how a gang featuring an unemployed actor, a chef, a masseuse and a waitress could afford to live in an upmarket apartment in the sitcom Friends - you’re not the only one.Which?...
View ArticleCOLUMN: This is YOUR local newspaper, so let’s all work hard together to make...
I got into news journalism because I really believe in telling the truth. As I’m sure is the same for everyone, there have been times in my life where telling the truth has been hard, and sometimes...
View ArticleReview: Weird and wonderful fun with Miss Peregrine
Matt Adcock reviews Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (12A), starring Eva GreenWhen young Jacob (AsaButterfield) discovers a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he comes across a...
View ArticleWhy Be Here Now is the worst essential album ever
Peter Ormerod reviews the 1997 Oasis album Be Here Now, which is being reissued this weekIf only someone had told them. After all, they weren't short of acolytes, disciples, hangers-on. But to be in...
View ArticleWomen who worked with Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville say they only saw the...
Women who worked with Jimmy Savile at the time that he committed crimes at Stoke Mandeville Hospital defended him this week.On Sunday night the BBC aired a Louis Theroux documentantry, in which the...
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