Boy band sensation One Direction got steamy and posed for pictures with fans at a spa in Marlow on Sunday last week. Harry, Liam, Louis, Niall and Zayn arrived at Danesfield House by helicopter before relaxing in the jacuzzi ahead of a photoshoot in the area. Receptionist Marie Stacey said: “‘We didn’t know they were coming so it was quite a shock to look up from reception and see Harry standing there. “The helicopter arrival on the hotel lawn was [...]
EMERGENCY service crews of the future have the chance to learn useful life-saving skills at a course in Marlow. The deadline for entries to Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service’s ‘Blue Light’ emergency service course has been extended for another week, allowing teenagers to take part in an educational and fun-packed scheme. Community Safety Coordinator Kate Watson said: “This course has proved very successful on the previous occasions it has been run. We are pleased to be able to offer other [...]
AN AWARD winning water life expert has shut down the UK branch of his charity. Aquaculture Without Frontiers was founded by Michael New. Mr New, of Institute Road, said AWF UK is being consolidated with its American group. The fish farming expert, in his seventies, said AWF UK raised a total of £56,000 through donations since 2003. The UK branch aided projects across the globe including India, Bangladesh, and Kenya. He said: “Throughout its life it uniquely operated without any [...]
About The Author Shelley Harris was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967, to a South African mother and a British father. She left South Africa in 1973 because of her family’s opposition to apartheid, and moved to Flackwell Heath in Buckinghamshire. After taking a degree in English at Southampton University, followed by an MA in English and History at Reading, she worked as a local reporter on the Maidenhead Advertiser, specialising in film reviews. She lived in Paris [...]
Marlow Regatta is held at Dorney Lake – the venue for the 2012 Olympic Rowing. It is to be held on Saturday 16th June and Sunday 17th June. On the Saturday, all races are over the full Olympic distance of 2,000m and the Regatta usually attracts all the best crews from Clubs, Schools and Universities in the UK, plus some from abroad. We have seen crews from Australia, USA, China in the past, as well as from the Continent. Races [...]
Britain’s first amphibious house, with normal foundations and yet capable of floating on rising floodwaters, is to be built beside the Thames. The three-bedroom family home is being billed as an innovative architectural response to global warming and the increasing threat of flooding across huge swathes of London and the South East. Recent Government figures suggest up to 750,000 homes in the south east are at risk of flooding – and this does not include new the tens of thousands [...]
UK health experts believe sun-dried tomatoes could be the cause of a recent outbreak of hepatitis A. The Health Protection Agency and the Food Standards Agency fear contaminated samples were to blame for the infection that hospitalised four people and caused illness in another three people in late 2011. Hepatitis A virus is carried by human faeces and can be passed on through contact with food or water. Severe cases can lead to liver failure. All of the seven people [...]
The chamber orchestra, The Chiltern Camerata will be playing at All Saints’ Parish Church in Marlow on Saturday the 17th March. Founded in 1996, The Chiltern Camerata an an amateur string orchestra featuring music professionals and advanced amateurs. 2012 will see two concerts from The Chiltern Camerata, the first to be held in Marlow. Doors will open at 7.30pm and the concert will features compositions by Vivaldi, Elgar and Mozart. For more information on how to obtain tickets visit http://www.chiltern-camerata.org.uk/
With pension talks between employers, the government and the unions continuing and the possibility of a national strike by firefighters on the horizon, Mark Jones, pictured, Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service’s Chief Fire Officer, speaks out: The government is in the process of making changes to all public sector pension schemes, and I think everyone can see the need to reduce the liability on taxpayers. I feel it is important for me to state what I think the impacts of [...]
All waste collection crews were out on Friday 10 February and endeavoured to collect where safe to do so. Any areas where they have been unable to collect from, due to snow and ice, will be revisited on Saturday 11 February. So far, collections have not been disrupted, but if conditions should persist or worsen and disruptions result, further updates will be provided. For instant updates you can follow us on Twitter @wycombedc.
A Marlow based martial arts club has scooped a sports development grant after receiving the most votes in a texting competition run by Wycombe District Council. Genesis Martial Arts Club were presented with a cheque for £100 by Cllr Katrina Wood, Wycombe District Council’s Cabinet Member for Community. The martial arts club – founded in 2011 by local resident Paul Busby – offers lessons and fitness training to people aged four and a half and older. The club has students [...]
Stereophonics bass guitarist Richard Jones will swap handbags for handlebars when he takes on a 25-mile bike ride for Thames Hospicecare. Richard, who lives in Buckinghamshire, visited the hospice in Hatch Lane, Windsor on Friday to see first hand the work they do and he is encouraging others to sign up for the challenge. The hospice needs individuals and teams to put their pedal power to the test to help beat last year’s £32,000 fundraising total which provided palliative care [...]
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