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A 33 year old man from Wooburn Green died after being hit by a train at Beaconsfield Station on Friday.

A NEW vicar, Reverend Jeremy Brooks, has moved into the rectory at Beaconsfield a year after his predecessor left for pastures new.

For 58 days Annie Januszewski has been rowing across the Atlantic. With around two weeks and 800 nautical miles or 1,400 km to go, Polly Manser made very crackly satellite contact.

CHINESE new year celebrations reached south Buckinghamshire this week as a restaurant marked the year of the tiger.
China Diner, in The Highway, Beaconsfield, celebrated with a lobster banquet, lion dancing by Kwong Wah kung fu artists and live music by Wooburn Green band 'Under the Sun'.
Customers at the restaurant paid homage to the the tradition of hoping for a lucky new year by putting red packets into the lion's mouth during the festivities on Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Owner Pui-Yue Looi said: "As Chinese new year fell on Valentines Day we thought we would do our celebrations on the following two nights, and both were packed out. Every year we do the celebrations and our customers know it's a good time with the banquet and lion dancing. In China people take two weeks off work to celebrate and it is all about banishing the old away and inviting in the new year. "

USERS of the recently reduced 305 bus service are to seize a chance to improve it after operator Jason Tours announced, just a month into its contract, that it will only run the service until May.

PLANS to improve safety at a zebra crossing in Beaconsfield where a man was thrown 15 feet sideways after being hit by a car last month are under way.

People who use the 305 bus will vote on the future of the service at a public meeting in Seer Green tomorrow.

A TEENAGER who has caused havoc in Beaconsfield and other towns has been served an interim anti social behaviour order or ASBO.

THE LEADER of Buckinghamshire County Council is facing a repair bill of £2100 to his BMW after he damaged two wheels in a pothole in Beaconsfield.

FAMILY and friends of a man who was hit by a car on a zebra crossing and shunted "15 feet through the air" say it is notoriously dangerous.