October 2008 Archives

Social care workers and the Red Cross were out in force yesterday when thousands of Buckinghamshire residents were hit by electricity power cuts.
Severe weather cause cuts in the Wingrave, Rowsham, Dunsmore, Holmer Green, Prestwood and Great Missenden areas - affecting some 5,000 homes.
This meant people were left without electricity from during Tuesday night till, in some cases, Wednesday evening.

Great Missenden farmer Ian Waller has won a prestigious farming award.
Mr Waller, 50, of Hampden Bottom Farm, Rignell Road, who has been in business for eight years, landed the Farmers Weekly Countryside Farmer of the Year Award at a dinner in London on Monday.
The awards ceremony, at London's five star Grosvenor House Hotel, brought together a host of top farmers from throughout Britain.

Buckinghamshire Stories of the Supernatural
By David Kidd-Hewitt

Some of us might say we don't believe in ghosts, but few of us are rash enough to say categorically that they do not exist. In his new book Buckinghamshire Stories of the Supernatural brought out to coincide with Hallowe'en, Great Missenden author David Kidd-Hewitt does not try to persuade either way. However, the sheer number of apparitions, phantoms, ghosts and spectres which he describes will cause even hardened sceptics to pause.

Children in Need takes place on Friday, November 14 and people across the country will be taking part in events from sponsored silences to jumping out of planes!

On Saturday, November 1 Great Missenden school is holding a professional firework show. The gates open at 6pm, there will be side stalls, fairground rides and lots more. The tickets are sold at the school office, Samways newsagents and Café Twit all in Great Missenden.

Prestwood Nature are celebrating following the news they have received a £2,280 grant from the Lottery distributor Awards for All.
The Prestwood based nature charity will be using the grant to plant a community orchard of local apples, cherries, pears and plums adjacent to allotments in Greenlands Lane, Prestwood. It will be known as Kiln Common Orchard, after the old name for the area by Greenlands Lane, which once had a brickworks as well as orchards. The initial planting will take place on Saturday, November 1, from 10am.

A cricket club has won planning permission to build a new £50,000 plus pavilion at its Lee Manor Park Ground at The Lee.
The Lee Cricket Club, which is chaired by barrister Jon Swain, wants to forge on and build the new structure as soon as possible.

Review by Bernard Pritchard

The 49th Little Missenden Festival opened on Friday, October 10 in the Saxon cum Norman Church with the glorious acapella singing of the Binchois ensemble, directed by Andrew Kirkman. The programme 'Obrecht and the Company of Saints' explored lesser known music of the late 15th and early 16th century. It is interesting to hear this music in the context of late medieval religious belief where there was a painful purgatory between life and hoped-for afterlife. The saints were to help achieve mercy and so were the target of much prayer and also sacred music.

This is a list of planning applications received this week by Chiltern District Council.
Representations should be made either in writing to the Head of Planning Services, Chiltern District Council, King George V Road, Amersham, Bucks, HP6 5AW or by e-mail to planning@chiltern.gov.uk. If you use e-mail would you also include your postal address.
Your comments should be received by 7 November 2008:

A young scribe from Great Missenden has won a poetry competition.
Morgan Jones, 8, who attends Great Missenden Church of England Combined School has won the Young Bard 2008 competition run by Chiltern Railways and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
Chiltern worked with the RSC to promote literacy and creativity amongst their young passengers.
The competition invited children aged between seven and 12 to write a poem about holiday and travel and was judged by Lyn Darnley, head of text, voice and artist development at the RSC.