£81,000 to be used to fund staff pay increase
MORE than 220 district council staff are to be given a pay increase under plans revealed this week.Next week members at Aylesbury Vale District Council will weigh up plans to spend £81,000 on...
View ArticleBid to bring school back to Winslow is supported
A BID to bring a secondary school back to Winslow has been supported – amid claims that it could prevent the Winslow Centre being sold for housing.Chiefs from the Department for Education are weighing...
View ArticleIncinerator report fans the flames for critics
A FINAL decision on plans to build a £300million incinerator near Calvert will be reached this week – with planning officers recommending it is approved.The controversial plant was put on hold by...
View ArticleThe boy George shows his class at Magnolia Park
Nineteen year old George Stirrat continues to show great talent at Magnolia Park Golf Club, winning the Easter Stableford Competition with 39 Points. The two-handicap youngster has shown consistent...
View ArticleFC’s physio Liz gets Olympic call
Aylesbury FC physio Liz Carson will be at this summer’s London Olympics after being selected as part of a medical team to assist the beach volleyball teams.The popular physio, who runs her own...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: The Cabin In The Woods
You think you know the story – five teen friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, bad things start to happen. So what is the secret lurking beneath the stereotypical creepy cabin? And...
View ArticleYour best time is not spent running
I’VE got it in the neck before on this, but I’m prepared to have another go. Thousands of runners are lacing up their trainers and stuffing themselves full of pasta in preparation for this weekend’s...
View ArticleVale sides ready to battle it out in Sheffield Jackman Cup final
Britannia and Long Marston will be giving their all to win this season’s Sheffield Jackman Cup on Monday night at Tring Athletic’s Grassroots Stadium.And there will be a special guest handing out the...
View ArticleEngland and Arsenal star White’s call for change
ARSENAL striker Ellen White believes double-header matches combined with Barclays Premier League games could be one way to gain a greater profile for the women’s game.The second season of Women’s Super...
View ArticleShop owners at Bee Gee’s launch
THE owners of a Thame book shop attended a VIP evening on Tuesday to witness the world premier of The Titanic Requiem by former Bee Gee Robin Gibb.Brian and Louise Pattinson, of The Book House, were...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s guide to new DVDs: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Trespass, Switch
AFTER seeing the complete Swedish film trilogy spawned by Stieg Larsson’s international best-sellers, I feared the material would be too familiar for the Hollywood version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON...
View Article100 years on and Titanic poem is poignant as ever
IT was written in the days after news of the Titanic disaster in April 1912 reached Aylesbury.And Frederick Winter Dobson’s poem, printed above, brilliantly reflects the desperation and bravery of the...
View ArticleFlue fire caused by chimney bird’s nest
A BIRD’S nest lodged in a school chimney caused a fire on Monday.The nest, thought to have been built in the structure at Grendon Underwood Combined School over the Easter break, caught fire when the...
View ArticleSpeeding drivers caught out by police operation
MORE than 35 drivers were caught speeding in four hours by police.Between 8am and 9.30am in Ellesborough Road, Princes Risborough, 25 drivers were prosecuted. A total of 23 fixed penalty notices were...
View ArticlePay and display vandal hunted
CCTV footage is being reviewed after Aqua Vale’s parking machines were vandalised – resulting in free parking for all while the pay and display machines are being fixed.The damage was caused on April...
View ArticleMakeover leaves pupils stoked
“NEVER were accommodations so wretched,” complained a Mrs Lybbe Powys after her visit in 1775 – but fast-forward to today, and after a £9 million makeover, there were no such complaints from Furze Down...
View ArticleBoyce in action for Wigan
EMMERSON Boyce starred as Wigan Athletic defied all the odds and expert opinion to pull off their second shock in as many games with victory over Arsenal on Monday night.Aylesbury-born Boyce, a former...
View ArticleBucks trampled by Ox
BUCKS never recovered from a disastrous start as they lost to rivals Oxfordshire by six wickets with more than 12 overs left in their one-day warm-up match at a bitterly cold Aston Rowant on Sunday.Mal...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s guide to the latest cinema releases: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen,...
ARRIVING on the silver screen this week by the tried and trusted route of ‘moderately successful book gets reasonable cast and crew attached’ is Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, which some have unkindly...
View Article‘Have I got more jokes for you?’
HE is best known for spending 22 years on TV show Have I Got News For You, but few people realise that Paul Merton still performs live on stage at least once a week.“It’s a performance muscle. If it’s...
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