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INTERNET users in Bucks will soon be able to surf the web up to three times faster following a scheme to get super quick broadband which has been backed by the county council.

Cabinet members on Monday supported an initiative to start the three-year project to get super fast broadband to at least 90 per cent of businesses and people in the county.

ARE you between the ages of 30 and 60 and never had the chance to learn to swim? Well, now is your chance.

A NEW secondary school could be built in Chalfont St Peter to boost the number of school places in south Bucks.

Plans are being drawn up for a 'free school', which would be government, rather than county council, funded. A planning application is set to be made next week.

CHALFONT St Peter parish council has launched a challenge over a government decision to approve a controversial planning scheme, which would allow 200 homes to be built in the village.

In November last year, the government's planning inspector gave the green light to a Chiltern District Council policy which would let the unpopular scheme go ahead.

MOTORISTS in Buckinghamshire are being encouraged to slow down in 2012.

Bucks County Council has launched a new campaign highlighting the dangers of driving too quickly, and is running it throughout January.

PUBLIC sector strikes over a pension dispute are causing widespread disruption across the county today (November 30).

SAFETY improvements are to be made at an accident blackspot on the A413.

Bucks County Council will begin work on the road on Tuesday, November 15, between Gerrards Cross and Chalfont St Giles following a series of accidents in recent years which have left a number of people dead.

RESIDENTS have complained that a part of Chalfont St Peter is blighted by litter and other mess despite the recent Best Kept Village win.

Last week, parish councillors were given the award in recognition of the tidiness of the village and the way in which the main streets and grass verges are presented.

SIX members have lost their seats following the results of the Chiltern District Elections.

The Liberal Democrat party lost the most seats after five members were given the boot. The Conservative party also lost a seat to an Independent councillor.

A BUCKS County Council chief has urged communities to preserve the future of their libraries after a new model was approved this morning (April 10).