May 2009 Archives

TWO COUNCILLORS who received over £40,000 in allowances and expenses between them from South Bucks District Council and Buckinghamshire County Council in 2007-8, have explained why they think they councillors are worth the money

KERAN Henderson, the Iver Heath childminder who was jailed after shaking to death a baby left in her care, has been released from prison.
Mrs Henderson was jailed in November 2007 after a jury found her guilty of the manslaughter of 11-month-old Maeve Sheppard.

A GERRARDS Cross school has won an inaugural football contest to be crowned the best team in the Home Counties.
Thorpe House school beat Long Close of Berkshire in the first ever Home Counties Shield, played at the ground of Chalfont St Peter AFC.

A GERRARDS Cross couple are celebrating after reaching the milestone of their diamond wedding anniversary.
Dennis and Winnifred Wakefield were married on May 21 1949, having first met when they were 14 and 15-years-old.

CANDIDATES on the campaign trail in Bucks for next week's local elections have been met by a wave of hostility from voters.
People are so angry after the furore over Mps expenses that they are threatening not to vote in next Thursday's county and district councils.

A TALENTED young tennis player from Gerrards Cross was given some tips on her game by a former Wimbledon star.
Lauren King-Sparke, eight, met Greg Rusedski at the Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA's) Talent ID week held in London.

DOMINIC Grieve MP, whose Beaconsfield constituency includes Gerrards Cross, is considering giving up his second home which he rents in Marlow and for which he claimed nearly £19,000 in 2007-8.

A GERRARDS Cross law firm is holding an art exhibition in order to raise money for charity.
BP Collins, who are based in Station Road, are holding an art show at their offices with all the proceeds going to the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) in Chalfont St Peter.
The exhibition features artwork from people who suffer from epilepsy or who have personal experiences of the illness.

A PLAGUE of millions of caterpillars is literally eating away vast areas of woods on Gerrards Cross Common.
The wriggly inch long beasties have stripped leaves bare on tens of thousands of trees so that it appears that winter has returned to acre upon acre of woodland.

Police investigating a fatal collision that caused the death of 47-year-old Jim Fleming on Wednesday 1 April in Gerrards Cross have the licence plate of a car they are trying to trace.