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WHEN Helen Halik lost her wedding ring while packing bags for supermarket customers in Gerrards Cross, she could not have imagined it would end up in North Africa.

Mrs Halik made an emotional appeal in last week's Advertiser for help to find the treasured ring, which she has had since her wedding day in 1990.

A WOMAN from Gerrards Cross who survived the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster has spoken of her terrifying ordeal on board the vessel.

Mohan Phander, 48, was at the end of a holiday with her husband Charanjit, 52, when the ship hit a rock last Friday.

A GERRARDS Cross chef who has cooked for actors and rock stars is to help people flight the flab after she losing more than two stone herself.

Suzie Hayes, of Oak End Way, who used to work as a chef and cooked for the likes of singer songwriter Eric Clapton and film star Richard Gere, lost 34lb last year after starting a diet and is now set to share her knowledge with other residents of the village.

A KEEN traveller from Gerrards Cross who visited such exotic locations as Vietnam and the Galapagos Islands has died.

Ronald Ivan Dawson, who was 74, died at his home in The Chyne, on Monday, December 19.

PUBLIC sector strikes over a pension dispute are causing widespread disruption across the county today (November 30).

HEARTFELT tributes have been paid to an organist who played at the same church in Iver Heath for 55 years.

Ronald Stamp, who died of a heart attack on October 30 at the age of 92, played the organ at St Margaret's church in Church Road from 1950 until his retirement in 2005.

THE Examiner/Advertiser has appointed a Community Editor to help build closer links around the area covered by the newspaper.

He is Mort Smith, from Ashford, Middlesex, an experienced journalist who has worked on various papers in the Trinity Mirror group.

The Gerrards Cross Community Association celebrated a successful second annual craft fair at the Memorial Centre on Saturday, October 28.

More than 300 people came along to buy a range of items from 35 stall holders and to raise money towards the running of the centre.

For more information, visit the website at www.gxca.org.uk.

SCOUTS should be cooking up a feast now a new kitchen has been fitted at the headquarters in Fulmer.

RESIDENTS have backed plans to up the controversial 30mph speed limit near Denham on the A40 to 40mph as part of a new pedestrian crossing scheme to replace a footbridge.