High Wycombe, England News

THIS STORY IS BEING UPDATED TONIGHT. CHECK FOR UPDATES. SHELTERS have been set up, hotels are full and Eden shopping centre is helping out stranded shoppers as the cold snap takes its toll on High Wycombe.

DIRECT bus services from High Wycombe to Uxbridge are to be scrapped in the new year.

A GRITTING boss today said crews were gritting "secondary" roads and refilling salt bins where possible.

AS TOY shops jostle to get their hands on the hottest Christmas toys we found out what south Buckinghamshire children are begging to unwrap this year.

Hasn't the weather been awful today? Walking down the High Street on my regular lunchtime walk around the town centre I was glad that I put my long johns on this morning.

A HIGH Wycombe singing teacher is set to embark on the tour of a lifetime as she gets set to tread the boards on Broadway.

RESIDENTS have hit out at road bosses for not gritting icy highways and footpaths.

BABY Rosie who was abandoned in a bag in High Wycombe is "happy, lovely and healthy" but social services are still pleading for her birth parents to come forward.

A HIGH Wycombe pub due to be converted into a hotel could be fitted with more bedrooms than originally planned.

A FATHER who lost his wife just 10 months after they got married has urged people to donate to the a oeworthwhilea Child Bereavement Charity after the support it gave to his family.

HEAVY snow showers are expected to hit High Wycombe again overnight, according to the latest Met Office reports.

PEOPLE across the county are taking advantage of the heavy snow which fell last night and are out enjoying themselves.

A SUPERMARKET chain has made a formal planning application to build a new store in High Wycombe.

A MINI Moto was stolen from a garage in Marlow. Police said the Dedmere Road garage was a oeinsecurea .

THE Environment Centre in High Wycombe is to close. Bosses of the green-themed Holywell Mead facility said funds had dried up.

THE following planning applications were received by south Buckinghamshire district councils on Tuesday.

MASKED robbers threatened staff with a screwdriver at a High Wycombe off licence.

HEAVY snow is forecast for High Wycombe tonight as a school announces it will close tomorrow.

TWO men tried to grab a laptop from a man walking down a High Wycombe street. They tried to grab his bag in Cambridge Crescent in the Totteridge area at about 5pm on Monday.

ROADS in High Wycombe are gridlocked this morning. Traffic on the A40 London Road heading into Wycombe town centre is at a standstill, while traffic is also backing up in all directions causing mayhem on the roads.