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• New Education Tax raises concerns in Buckinghamshire

  Buckinghamshire Council has raised concerns about new education tax rises by the Government.

• Woman sustains serious leg injury in Aylesbury

  Police are appealing for witnesses following a serious road traffic collision, which has left a female pedestrian with serious leg injuries.

• Club pays tribute to local football legend

  Tributes are being paid to the stalwarts of a local football club who has passed away.

• Mental health sick days at council see 8,700 days lost in a single year

  Buckinghamshire Council staff are taking thousands of sick days for mental health, a new report has revealed.

• Bucks paramedic urges support for match funding appeal

  A palliative paramedic from Buckinghamshire is backing a campaign that will see local hospice care charity, Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, aim to raise £100,000 in just seven days. The charity has set the ambitious target in a bid to fund palliative paramedic care in the coming year.

• Park for free this Christmas at selected Bucks car parks

  Buckinghamshire Council is offering free parking in selected council-owned car parks on certain dates in the run up to the festive season.

• Man dies in Denham collision

  Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in Denham.

• Aylesbury gym leader wins prestigious award

  Heather Adams, from Aylesbury's Lynx Gymnastics Centre, picked up the Education Excellence Award at the first-ever Independent Gymnastics Association (IGA) Awards.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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