March 2010 Archives

A 42 YEAR OLD sales executive from Flackwell Heath is to run as the first ever Green Party candidate in the Beaconsfield constituency.

HOMES in Gerrards Cross are to get super-fast broadband this year and next, BT announced this week.

DOMINIC Grieve, MP for Beaconsfield, must give up his second home in Marlow and commute to the constituency from his London home if he is re-elected, following changes in the rules on expenses published yesterday.

THE first participants in a new health and well being initiative for gypsies and travellers in South Bucks have completed the first stage of their training.
Six women from traveller communities will become health advocates for the traveller sites of Iver, Wapseys Wood, Dudley Wharf and Mansion Lane.

A LADIES' football team has been left devastated after hundreds of pounds worth of their kit was stolen.
Denham United Ladies, who play at the Den in Oxford Road, were shocked to find that a car containing the kit of the entire first team had been stolen while they were training on the evening of March 18.

ORGANISERS of the Gerrards Cross Fun Run are on the lookout for contestants who want to make video diaries detailing their progress.
The race is set to take part in May and application forms are now available, and organisers are keen to find people who are willing to show their training progress in videos to be featured online.

THERE will be shock in Gerrards Cross as residents discover that the second route option for High Speed Two, announced by the Government last week, runs under the town.

A TEACHER and her daughter are set to do a sky dive in order to raise funds for charity.
Jane Cottam, 53 and her daughter Katy, 16, who live in North Park, Gerrards Cross, are joining more than 20 other fund raiser in Brain Tumour UK's special sky diving event at Brackley airfield in Oxfordshire.

A CHILDMINDER from Iver Heath who was convicted of killing a baby left in her care has fought her conviction at an appeal.
Keran Henderson, of Pinewood Green, Iver Heath, a married mother-of-two, was convicted of manslaughter in November 2007, following the death of 11-month-old Maeve Sheppard.

THE CONTROVERSIAL decision six months ago to burn waste from Bucks outside the county in the future has hit problems and the county council is having to put the job back out to tender.