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Think pink
July 30, 2019
Wear it pink is back.This October, Breast Cancer Now is encouraging everyone in Oxfordshire to wear it pink and help make life-saving breast cancer research and life-changing support happen. Breast Cancer Now’s wear it pink day takes place across Oxfordshire on Friday 18 October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One of the UK’s biggest fundraising […]
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Free gym sessions
May 2, 2019
Stoke Mandeville Stadium will be staging a free gymnastics open day on Saturday May 11. There will be inclusive sessions for four-11 year olds, with activities for disabled and non-disabled youngsters on offer between 10am and 11.30am, 11.30am and 1pm, and 1pm and 2.30pm. Gymnastics as a sport has already proved a hit at Stoke […]
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Library is the last word
February 15, 2019
The newly refurbished Aylesbury Library welcomed nearly 9,000 visitors in its first fortnight – and nearly 5,000 people a week are enjoying the new space. The building has been completely remodelled into a modern and welcoming space with many new features including: > A colourful, inviting new children’s space with sensory wall and ‘bubble tubes’. […]
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New Year message
January 1, 2019
A New Year message from Martin Tett, Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council: “2018 was quite a year. With Brexit ongoing, two royal weddings, a pretty good year for English football and of course the ‘Beast from the East’ and the long, hot summer – it was certainly one to remember. Local government also had its highlights […]
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Music to our ears
December 3, 2018
Shops may come and go but some of Aylesbury’s smaller outlets are still in there and fighting the current High Street slump. Well known names such as Toys R Us, Maplin, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Evans Cycles and Mothercare have either shrunk or gone under, with 85,000 retail jobs lost in the first nine months […]
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Find out about fostering
August 4, 2018
The summer holidays are busy times for families all over Buckinghamshire – with plenty going on and no school, it can be fun. Local foster families have opened up their homes and holidays to children who can’t be with their own parents. Foster families have just as much to do and just as much fun, […]
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