News

Local News

• Bucks Council revokes utility firm permits after gas canister explodes

  Buckinghamshire Council has revoked a utility firm’s permits after a gas canister exploded and caused a fire next to a bus stop.

• Funding cuts to Buckinghamshire community boards as local elections loom

  Funding cuts to Buckinghamshire community boards have been noted in a new report ahead of the 2025 local elections.

• High Wycombe will NOT get its own council as Tories vote against 60 per cent of town

  High Wycombe will not be given its own town council after Conservative Buckinghamshire councillors torpedoed a last-ditch bid to set up a new parish-level authority.

• Aylesbury MP votes to cut to winter fuel payment

  Aylesbury's newly elected Labour MP has voted for the Government’s proposals to scrap the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners.

• Man robbed of gold chain in High Wycombe

  Police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery in High Wycombe.

• Man charged with attempted murder and other offences in Amersham

  A man has been charged with attempted murder and other offences in Amersham.

• MP backs plans to deliver better buses across Aylesbury

  Aylesbury MP Laura Kyrke-Smith has backed the Government's plans to streamline the process for local communities to take back control of local bus services from unaccountable private operators.

• Bucks Council struggling to find social workers as staff leave due to cost-of-living crisis

  Buckinghamshire Council is struggling to find social workers, a report has warned, after staff left due to the cost-of-living crisis.

• More from Local News
• Feed

---

General Election 2024

No stories to show.

• More from General Election 2024
• Feed

---

Charity Chatter

• Cats Protection Chiltern Branch

  The local volunteer-run branch of the national charity – Cats Protection, which is the UK's leading feline welfare charity.

• Connection Support

  Prevent loneliness and isolation in your community become a befriender.

• Karibuni children charity

  Based charity in Stoke Mandeville which focuses on transforming young Kenyan lives. The Charity was founded in 1995.

• More from Charity Chatter
• Feed

---

Community Chatter

• Worrying increase in number of young people using Bucks charity

  Youth Concern say those needing support and food are the highest they've seen in over 40 years.

• Only Contact Elderly Get Each Week

  The 'Monday Contact Club' are a day club for older people that meets every Monday. Throughout the day there are activities, crafts, exercises, full cooked lunch and entertainment.

• More from Community Chatter
• Feed

---

I didn't Know that !

• 75 Years of the Paralympic Movement which started in Stoke Mandeville.

  In 1944, at the request of the British Government, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann opened a spinal injuries centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Great Britain, and in time, rehabilitation sport evolved to recreational sport and then to competitive sport.

• The Great Train Robbery happened here in Bucks 60 years ago

  Cheddington historian John Smith talks us through the events of Thursday 8th August 1963 (this was first recorded 11 years ago).

• 'Churchill's Toy Shop' at The Firs, Whitchurch

  How many times have you driven past 'The Firs' at the top of Whitchurch High Street and wondered what really did go on behind those walls during the 2nd World War.

• Lewis Capaldi Latest Video Filmed in Bucks

  'Wish You The Best' video was filmed in Little Missenden.

• A Wendover Woman Discovered What the Universe was Made of

  Wendover born, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (b: May 10, 1900 – d: December 7, 1979) discovered that stars are made of hydrogen and helium.

• More from I didn't Know that !
• Feed

---