December 2009 Archives
CHILDREN in the Chiltern district are being urged to get fit and healthy in the new year by taking up a course for overweight youngsters.
Tips to help people get healthier have been launched by child obesity experts at MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition,Do it!).
POLICE have issued a warning to drivers after crashes in continuing icy conditions.
Motorists are being urged to take into account the road and weather conditions on their journeys today.
DRIVERS have paid tribute to the efforts of residents across Bucks who helped them while they were struggling to get home during the snowfall on Monday night.
Commuters faced a battle to get home, and some were forced to abandon their cars, but many people left the comfort of their homes to go and help those in trouble.
DRIVERS across Buckinghamshire have faced nightmare journeys as the county experienced some of its worst snowfall in recent memory.
On Monday afternoon, heavy snow began to fall for the second time in a week, resulting in roads that had been starting to thaw out freezing up again.
SCHOOLS across Bucks have been forced to close today after the county was covered in heavy snowfall overnight.
Roads have been affected and journeys made more hazardous by the conditions forcing many schools to close a day early for Christmas term.
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Gritters have been despatched to Chesham and Amersham to try and ease driving conditions.
THE CLOSURE of bridge on a main road through Chalfont St Peter was done as a matter of urgency after it was found unsafe during a routine inspection last week, it has emerged.
TWENTY ONE people have been arrested in a pre-Christmas crackdown to tackle burglary, robbery and vehicle crime across the district and surrounding areas.
CHALFONT St Peter has been left facing traffic chaos over the Christmas period after one of the main roads leading into the village was closed.
The section of road between the Greyound pub and the St Peter's precinct development at the bottom of the village was closed last week after Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) declared the bridge by the Greyhound unsafe.
A DOG from Chalfont St Giles has been found wandering the streets of Spain.
The dog, who has a tag which says his name is Teddy, was found two weeks ago in a place called Coin on the road leading to Marbella by Ivor lever, a British man living in the area.
RUMOURS are circulating in the Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards Cross area that Mike Tyson could be moving to the area.
The former heavyweight world champion, who bit off part of the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield during a fight in 1997, is set to spend six months in the UK next year on the after dinner speaking circuit.
THIS year's revamped Chalfont St Peter Christmas Fun Night proved to be a huge success despite poor weather conditions.
The event, which took place on Friday evening, saw around half the village's population descend on Market Place, High Street and St Peter's Court, where a host of attractions had been put in place.
A CHALFONT St Peter hairdresser is offering support to women who have lost their hair by stylishly re-cutting their wigs for them.
Fake It, in Market Place, Chalfont St Peter, is offering the service to women who have lost their hair through illness and have been given wigs as a replacement.
AN ACTION group has been set up to fight the building of hundreds of new homes in Chalfont St Peter.
The group, which is called SENSE4CSP, was initially established to fight the extension of the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) in Chesham Lane, but has now turned its attention to Chiltern District Council's (CDC's) plans to build 720 dwellings in the village.