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Crowdfunding tips
January 14, 2020
Our Vale, Aylesbury Vale’s crowdfunding platform, has seen success throughout 2019 with a number of impressive community projects reaching and even surpassing fundraising targets. To celebrate these achievements and to encourage more people to get involved in 2020, Aylesbury Vale District Council and Spacehive are hosting a free, interactive workshop at The Gateway on Thursday […]
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New council’s deadline
January 7, 2020
With less than 90 days to go, preparations are well under way to create the new Buckinghamshire Council that will launch in April this year. The new council will deliver the whole range of local services currently supplied by the five current councils as a single organisation. For most people there will be no change […]
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Hidden talents
August 12, 2019
Former Thame writer Lisa Sell takes a time trip to the ’80s in her new crime novel, Hidden. Described as ‘unputdownable’ by one early reviewer, it tells the story of secrets of the past that come to light years after the body of a 14-year-old girl is found on a railway track. Main character Jen […]
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Voter forms plea
August 4, 2019
A council is sending out annual voter registration forms during the next few weeks, asking residents to respond as quickly as possible in order to help save taxpayers’ money. From Tuesday 6 August, around 83,000 properties in Aylesbury Vale will receive a ‘Household Enquiry Form’. Residents are required by law to confirm or update the details of […]
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Going potty for a month
July 12, 2019
An exhibition called Pots & Prints will be running for a month at Bucks County Museum in Aylesbury. Olney potter and printmaker, Deborah Hopson-Wolpe, grew up in a creative household in London with her parents, Berthold Wolpe, typographer and graphic designer and Margaret Wolpe, sculptor and silversmith. Deborah studied ceramics in London and Japan before […]
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BBC man to start race
May 3, 2019
WheelPower, the National Charity for Wheelchair Sport, has said that the BBC’s Buckinghamshire-based Art Editor Will Gompertz (pictured) will start the Tour de Vale Charity Bike Ride at Stoke Mandeville Stadium on Sunday June 9. Will was previously director of Tate Media, and has written extensively for The Guardian and The Times newspapers. There are three routes […]
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