Foxhill’s ladies make it to final
After a fantastic performance in the men’s section, Foxhill’s women also performed well in the semi-finals of the Bucks County Indoor Bowls semi-finals.In the singles, Linda Hewins (Foxhill) beat...
View ArticleClub records tumble as runners rewrite history
AFTER the disappointment of the Bath half marathon where a flu bug forced Vale of Aylesbury’s Anuradha Cooray to drop out after just four miles, the Maidenhead 10-miler was the polar opposite.Almost...
View ArticleNo home comfort for Thame in the last home game
A CROWD of 265 saw Thame United well beaten 4-1 by Ardley United in the last home match of the season on Easter Monday. While the score suggests a thrashing, possession was in fact 50/50 and there was...
View Article‘Engage with the enemy’ MP tells HS2 opponents
AYLESBURY MP David Lidington has held talks with two pivotal figures in the pro-HS2 movement.The Europe minister met with transport secretary Justine Greening and HS2’s chief engineer Andrew McNaughton...
View Article‘A living capsule of an era when time was far less of the essence’
IN TIME for the Easter break, reporter Kirsten Rawlins visited Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton to take a closer look at the family attraction.AS I was born one of two girls, my father has...
View ArticleStore closes after 18 years in Thame
A HARDWARE shop based in Thame since 1994 is closing its doors for the final time at the end of the month.Peter and Julie Mullen have run The Money Spinner in Cornmarket for 18 years, having lived in...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s guide to the new movie releases: Battleship, The Cabin In The Woods
IT seems likely that, in what passes for a garret in the fleshpots of Hollywood, some ambitious young screenwriter is even now working on a big budget movie treatment for the rainy afternoon favourite...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s guide to new DVD releases: The Deep Blue Sea, Snowtown, Keith
LOVERS are at loggerheads in 1950s-set drama THE DEEP BLUE SEA (12: Artificial Eye), a heart-rending adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play.Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), the wife of respected judge,...
View ArticleBucks take on Oxfordshire at Aston Rowant
BRAGGING rights will be up for grabs when Oxford take on rivals Buckinghamshire at Aston Rowant on Sunday.The match, which gets under way at 11am, is the first to be played at Aston Rowant ahead of the...
View ArticleBBC team shocked by death of ‘hero’ Ingo
FORMER colleagues of a distinguished BBC cameraman who died after plummeting from a bridge in Aylesbury have voiced their shock this week.Ingo Prosser, of Welbeck Avenue in Bedgrove, has been described...
View ArticleSmoky the fox cub’s miraculous escape from bungalow blaze that ‘went off like...
A LUCKY fox cub miraculously survived a huge fire which ripped through a derelict bungalow.The animal, which has been nicknamed Smoky, was pulled from the ashes by astonished firefighters and has made...
View ArticleCouncil makes £30,000 from car park machines which do not give change
DRIVERS in the Vale have been left out of pocket by just under £30,000 in 10 months by council parking machines which do not give change.A user of the Aylesbury Vale District Council- owned car parks,...
View ArticleChinnor are masters of their own destiny after Redingensians draw
THE outcome of this replayed league match would probably decide which of the two teams would play on April 28 in the play-offs to gain the chance of promotion to National League 2.At the final whistle,...
View ArticleWebber aims to lead from the front in China
MARK Webber is aiming to match his brilliant performance of last season when he returns to China this weekend.The Aston Clinton man had an amazing race in Shanghai last year, coming through the field...
View ArticleIf the boat race is anything to go by, I might skip the Olympics
GIVEN that the length of Chiswick Bridge across the Thames is some 606 feet and just a lick and a spit away from the end of the Boat Race I begin to fear for the rowing skills of both Cambridge and...
View ArticleSamantha Cameron’s Chequers boost to Stoke Mandeville Hospital charity
SAMANTHA Cameron has handed a big boost to a charity which is raising funds for specialist cancer equipment at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.The Prime Minister’s wife has agreed to open up the Chequers...
View ArticleEmpty shops are being torn down in revamp
DEMOLITION work has started on empty shop units in Aylesbury’s Walton Court Centre.Bosses at the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust, which owns the site, says its £11.35 million revamp of the centre is...
View ArticleViolent crime is down, say police
VIOLENT crime in the Vale has dropped by more than 25 per cent in 12 months, figures released this week have revealed.The stats released by Thames Valley Police reveal that between April 2011 and March...
View Article‘A place to call home can help us to next level’
UNITED manager Tony Joyce believes he can push the club on to another level if they can get their own ground and training facilities in the future.The Ducks have been playing at Chesham and more...
View ArticleBoss wants to hang on to FC job and push club on
STEVE Smith wants to keep his Aylesbury FC side up, then he wants to keep his job so he can aim for the stars next season.Smith, who was appointed after the departure of Mark Eaton earlier this season,...
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