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GIRL guides are celebrating after planning permission for a new Guide headquarters - from which the whole community will benefit - was finally approved by South Bucks District Council.

FIVE emergency survival boxes purchased by shoppers in Waitrose will arrive in Haiti by the end of the week.

A SCOUT group that almost closed a year ago and is now thriving thanks to hard work from volunteers has celebrated with an end of year party.

Believe it or not there are a few people left in the civilised world who have not seen and still refuse to witness the theatrical phenomenon that is Les Miserables. I suppose it must be the same kind of stubborn perversity that stops me watching East Enders or Waking the Dead on TV.

By Laurence Smaje

The Advertiser certainly did its readers a favour when it recommended virtuoso violinist Tasmin Little's Naked Violin performance on 24 October as one of its 'Five of the Best' outings this Autumn.

YOUNGSTERS in Beaconsfield took a trip to Neverland when they put on a special performance of Peter Pan.
The event was put on by Perform Drama School at the end of July at St Michael's Church Hall, and was performed by a cast of four to eight-year-olds.

AN INTREPID Beaconsfield resident is set to climb one of the world's most famous mountains in memory of his father.
Andrew Harman, will traverse Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, the world's highest free standing mountain.

Ten huge boxes full of supplies are headed to one of the poorest regions of the third world thanks to pupils and staff at The Beaconsfield School.
The boxes include filter cartridges and water treatment tablets, paid for by Jordan and District Rotary Club, who are taking the boxes to Derbyshire from where they will be shipped to wherever they are needed when disaster strikes.

Teenagers showed off talents ranging from legalised graffiti to skateboarding on stage at The Beacon Centre in Beaconsfield.
Around 200 young people from across Bucks took part in the event which was clearly a new experience for many in the audience, which county and district councillors as well as parents and well wishers.

Beaconsfield Old Town Residents Association holds its annual general meeting at the White Hart pub in the Old Town on April 8.
All members of the association are invited to attend the meeting, which starts at 7.45pm.