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PLANS to install a roundabout on a major road as part of a new access for a leading ejector seat manufacturer have been permitted.

New bus routes make it easier to explore the rural idyll that inspired Milton, Roald Dahl and David Bowie. Last autumn our author immersed herself in the woods and fare of Buckinghamshire

To help Chesham and Amersham residents decide who to vote for in Thursdays by-election, we asked each candidate to sum up what they stand for.

Reopening the precious chalk stream – which has been buried in dark and dank concrete culverts, devoid of all wildlife and nature, under parts of the town centre since the 1960s – has been talked about since around 2017, but no firm plans have been progressed. Despite this, the appeal of the project has not lessened. Years later and the discussions are still ongoing. The Bucks Free Press supports bringing the river back to the surface, as does the High Wycombe Society and Revive The Wye...

PICTURED: One of the new tunnelling machines and some of the wall sections being produced at a factory in Bucks (pictures by HS2 Ltd). Right: The River Misbourne (image by Brenda Spargo/BFP Camera Club) More concerns have been raised about HS2 digging under the Chilterns AONB amid fears it could damage Bucks rivers. Last week the Chiltern Society warned that the chalk aquifer – which it says provides drinking water to thousands of people in the region – is “under threat” from HS2�...

PICTURED: One of the new tunnelling machines and some of the wall sections being produced at a factory in Bucks. Right: The River Misbourne (image by Brenda Spargo/BFP Camera Club) A charity has slammed HS2 for its “imminent intention” to start digging under the Chilterns AONB amid fears it could damage fragile chalk aquifer under the Misbourne Valley. The Chiltern Society has warned that the chalk aquifer – which it says provides drinking water to thousands of people in the region �...

The Cloudburst On Friday May 17, 1918 somewhere above Ballinger, Pednor and Chartridge there was a torrential cloudburst. In a short space of time a massive amount of water fell near Chesham. In Chesham there was a rainshower and a downfall of hail. Locals carried on, unaware of the bigger surprise that was to come. The Floodwaters The water which had fallen upon the ridges ran down the hillsides to the valleys below, flooding farms and stripping fields. Water made its way over the fields a...

Family on Bottom House Farm Lane fear HS2 made Christmas ‘undeliverable’ A MOTHER of two fears Christmas for her family may be “undeliverable” after a series of presents never made it to her home by courier because a major government project had blocked access. Mrs Janey Wall said she was “seething” having discovered deliveries of Christmas presents had failed to reach her family property on Bottom House Farm Lane, in Chalfont St Giles, because HS2 had ‘closed the way indefi...