A Bucks Free Press campaign is embarrassing council officials after the bungled opening of a £108,000 town centre fountain. Wycombe District Council proudly unveiled its new water feature on January 8, with dignitaries posing for photographs at the site. But,
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Bear helps out in newsroom
A friendly bear from Wycombe Hospital has been helping out at the Bucks Free Press and South Bucks Star. Nosey the Bear’s ‘nose for a story’ prompted Star editor Steve Cohen to take a backseat while the furry trainee reporter
What's this mountain 'ere?
More than 70 dedicated readers of the South Bucks Star scaled the Austrian Alps – but not without first packing a copy of the free weekly in their rucksacks. The stunt, by employees of a High Wycombe-based company, takes the
Drunken mum gagging plea from reporter
Reporter Frankie Taggart successfully challenged magistrates after they banned publication of the identity of a girl whose mother had run riot at her school. Frankie, of the Bucks Free Press, was covering a sentencing hearing before Amersham Magistrates for the
Press prints 2,000-strong roll of honour in A&E fight
Readers get behind Star campaign to safeguard future of unit
Hundreds back Free Press in hospital demo
Hundreds of people flocked to a protest organised by the Bucks Free Press over the relocation of vital hospital services. The paper arranged the demonstration after being inundated with complaints from the public about plans to move maternity and children’s
Free Press prompts Govt policy review
The Bucks Free Press has helped to prompt a fresh Government review into the use of air ambulances after the paper revealed that the NHS does not fund the service. In November, the paper revealed air ambulance charities – which
July to December ABCs: What the editors said: Weekly
Circulation hit at every daily in Britain in the second half of last year – but figures are better for weeklies