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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 – is “under threat” from HS2’s planned operations for the 10-mile long Chiltern tunnels. It ...

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 and down the lanes. It carried hay ricks and sheds from one meadow to another. Cattle in lower fields...

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 indefinitely’. On three occasions, companies were unable to deliver parcels to her home containing fes...