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The council has been accused of wasting money on putting up an "unnecessary" fence around their offices in High Wycombe.

It was a blue wave in the first-ever Bucks Council unitary elections, as the Conservatives swept numerous wards in the central and northern areas of Buckinghamshire. The Tories dominated a large majority of the county, despite several Liberal Democrat candidates winning seats in their respected areas. During a long and drawn out day at the Gateway Office in Aylesbury on Saturday, May 8, numerous candidates were ‘too tense to talk’ as the votes were being counted. The calm before the ...

A former "eyesore" building in High Wycombe town centre that is undergoing a huge overhaul could partially be turned into an Italian restaurant and gelateria. The former Ottakar’s book store in White Hart Street was in a poor state after years of neglect by an offshore absentee landlord and was described as an "eyesore" by Wycombe councillors. When it finally went up for sale in 2019 the then Wycombe District Council moved quickly to buy it in a bid to revamp it. How the building used t...