Buckinghamshire County, England News

A TRADE union has raised fears 500 jobs could be outsourced at one of Bicester's biggest employers.

A pensioner is trying to force a golf club next to her country home to alter its course after a stray ball killed one of her sheep.

A BURGLAR used a ladder to break into a Booker home. A computer games console and accessories and digital camera were stolen.

HUNDREDS of mourners bowed their heads as the bodies of six soldiers passed through Oxford today.

Less than a month after their company was acquired by drug giant Pfizer Inc., about 450 employees at the Wyeth research plant in South Brunswick were told Monday that they no longer have jobs.

Pfizer said it will shut down its R&D operations at Princeton, N.J.; Chazy, Rouses Point and Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Sanford and Research Triangle Park, N.C.; and at Gosport, Slough/Taplow in the United Kingdom.

A WOMAN has been arrested in connection to a hit and run incident in High Wycombe which left a man in a critical condition in hospital.

A 53-YEAR-OLD woman has been found dead on a road in Chesham just hours after she had been released from police custody.

PEOPLE across Oxfordshire will pay their respects to Britain's war dead at services across the county this weekend.

WORRIED parents are calling for a speed limit to be introduced on a road near Chesham after four teenagers were seriously injured by a motorbike.

A park has been named as the best in central England. Staff and councillors have been celebrating after Garth Park, in Bicester, won the London and Central England region in Britaina s Best Park 2009 awards.

A COUPLE want to thank the anonymous people who stopped to help them and their son after he was involved in an accident a car.

A POPPY seller's car was slapped with a parking A 50 ticket after she over-stayed by just ten minutes.

An inquest into the death of a a former Leighton Buzzard woman who died in a Spanish holiday resort after reportedly falling as she tried to climb into her apartment has been opened and adjourned.

A talented footballer, who was killed when his car crashed into a tree on a country road in Northamptonshire, was driving while almost two-and-a-half times the legal drink-drive limit, an inquest heard.

Brad Kershaw was found slumped on a sofa in Winterbourne Close in Bicester on May 24, after a night with friends in which he also smoked crack cocaine and drank heavily.

Scam: Former MEP Tom Wise, 61, siphoned 36,000 of public money into a secret bank account he controlled and spent it on a car and wine A former British MEP who claimed 36,000 in an expenses fiddle was facing jail today after finally confessing during his trial.

A man seriously injured when he was hit by a van being pursued by police in Buckinghamshire is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Trading standards officers said they were appalled after 50 per cent of stores sold cigarettes to a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

A BRITISH Muslim cleared of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up transatlantic jets was spared jail yesterday for keeping a loaded gun at his home.