A CASH-STRAPPED council is urging Chalfont St Peter residents to take part in a public meeting next week to help them decide how to save £64m over the next four years.

Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) has dubbed the meetings the Bucks Debate, and will be holding a series of roadshows across the county, with one scheduled to take place in Chalfont St Peter on Thursday, September 6, where taxpayers can have their say on where the money should be axed.

YET more new homes could be built in Chalfont St Peter if a new set of plans are approved.
More than 300 new dwellings as well as sports and fitness facilities would be built in the village in the Newland Park area as part of the plans.

A WOMAN of 98 was knocked to the ground and had her handbag stolen from her in Chalfont St Peter by a teenage girl at the weekend.
The incident happened on Saturday afternoon at around 3pm in an alleyway near to the Tesco Express in Gravel Hill.

RESIDENTS of Chalfont St Peter are up in arms after serious disruptions to their post.
People living in certain areas, especially the Chalfont Common side of the village, have gone several days without post, and some of them have resorted to going to the sorting office in Gerrards Cross to pick up their own mail because they are tired of waiting for it to be delivered to their home.

A TOP ranking police chief in South Bucks has spoken of his desire to see crime rates in the area continue to plummet, with residents urgning the police to do more.
Over the last few months, reports of anti-social behaviour have dropped significantly as a result of police initiatives.

RESIDENTS who may be affected by the hugely controversial high speed rail line which would slice through the Chilterns are now able to apply for compensation.
People living near to the proposed route can now get help under the Exceptional Hardship Scheme.

A TRIBUTE has been paid to the Chalfont St Peter man who died in a car accident in the village three weeks before he was due to be married.
James Corry, who was 32, was the passenger in a car which crashed into a tree in Joiners Lane earlier this month.

THE horse trader convicted of what the RSPCA described as the worst case of animal cruelty it had ever witnessed has avoided having his prison sentence extended - but must pay more than £9,000 for five further animal welfare offences.
James Gray, 46, from Hyde Heath, made another court appearance to be sentenced in a case brought by Kent Trading Standards. He had been convicted of five offences dating back to 2007. They relate to bringing 17 horses through the port of Dover while not individually partitioned within a vehicle, not having health certificates for them to be imported and exported, and for breaching a formal notice not to use an unsuitable vehicle to transport them.

MORE than a hundred workers at one of the biggest employers in the Chiltern district face losing their jobs in cost-saving cuts.
The positions of around 150 manufacturing staff at GE Healthcare's headquarters in White Lion Road, Little Chalfont, are under threat as production is set to move overseas.
The employees at the company, which produces medical imaging equipment, drugs and patient monitoring instruments, were told of the news last Thursday and are being consulted on the plans.

CAMPAIGNERS against a proposed high-speed rail line are going to march through the countryside it is set to devastate.
A protest walk against High Speed 2 (HS2) through the Chilterns is set to take place along its proposed route through the Misbourne Valley.
Walkers, who take part in the eight-mile route from Amersham train station to Great Missenden station on September 11, are being asked to raise sponsorship for organisers The Chiltern Society's dedicated anti-HS2 fund.