Marlow Bottom News May 31, 2013
APOLOGIES to anybody who turned up for the Barn Club and Village Hall AGMs last Wednesday. It had to be postponed, and I was alerted too late to get it into last week’s column.
View ArticleMarlow Bottom News, June 7, 2013
FLYING more flights than British Airways, and covering parts of the world not on the normal international network, is a little known flying organisation that is funded by charitable support.
View ArticleMarlow Bottom News June 14, 2013
BURGER burglars are abroad. I’m told that one valley household was getting a barbecue ready, waiting for the charcoal to be just right.
View ArticleMarlow Bottom News, June 21, 2013
FREQUENTLY I’ve written regarding assistance for the Baden Powell groups in Marlow Bottom, but this time its different. It’s very urgent and new, even so soon after last week’s appeal in the MB...
View ArticleMarlow Bottom News June 28, 2013
TIMING of pieces of news sometimes gets in the way of their content. Such it was last week, concerning the Guides’ expected sharp increase in hire charges for their current Burford home.
View ArticleKites flying in record numbers
REMEMBER when kites were either made of paper or were extremely rare? Well, Peter and Sandie Kemp have an updated view of the latter.
View ArticleGet in the pink for a worthy cause
WEARING a pink bra is not really me, but we can all help improve detection of breast cancer locally through more seemly conduct in an October Scannappeal project by organising a pink themed...
View ArticleNumber plate thefts on the rise
NUMBER plate theft is still a problem in the area, including Marlow outskirts, with several incidents recorded in the last couple of weeks. You can ask for police advice to make your plates tamper...
View ArticleBBC Radio Two stars head for Marlow
FAVOURITES of BBC Radio 2 come to Marlow next week. Tuesday’s Marlow Jazz Club Gig (February 15) sees the welcome return of the very popular Five Star Swing Big Band.
View ArticleOur battle has finally paid off
THE PARISH Council and the Residents’ Association got together last weekend for a tidy up and pruning of the area at the valley entrance. The maintenance exercise was both seasonal and preparatory for...
View ArticlePink is the order of the day at the chippy
PINK is the order of the day today. The fish and chip shop will be decorated in pink; staff will be dressed in pink for the day (I expect to be one of the greatest expanses of pink on display); the...
View ArticleHospital visit left me feeling much better about state of health service
QUITE what hit me just before Christmas, and has persisted until now, I don’t know, but I must apologise for missing out on my column.
View ArticleMarlow Bottom news, February 14, 2014
FRUSTRATING to the point of distraction has been the ear problem I’ve had since early December.
View ArticleComputerised medical records help to make me feel better on my travels
ENTERPRISING fundraiser, Diana Bond, has told me that her latest afternoon tea party went very well on February 25, in a great turn-out in the Barn Club, the valley’s largest meeting place, which was...
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CONSIDERING all the contentious views concerning the NHS and its proposed databases, there is another sponsored by the NHS, less publicised, but containing much more usually private information. The...
View ArticleDiscussions get underway about a potential new cycle path to school
DISCUSSIONS are being conducted to assess the viability of a cycle path that will lead from Marlow Bottom (the current putative start point is Burford) to link ultimately to Great Marlow School.
View ArticleDomestic burglaries reduced by half in the Marlow area in three years
Burglaries on homes in the Marlow area have almost halved over the last three years.
View ArticleMarlow Bottom News April 4, 2014
GOING out for the evening any time between now and April 11? You may need to be aware that the closures of the A404 southbound carriageway scheduled to end last week were delayed through unexpected...
View ArticleRock Bottom reflects how our tastes and habits dance to a different beat
ROCK BOTTOM is hardly an apt epithet for this community, but it may be a sign of things to come. A lot of mumblings preceded the Valley’s first rock concert last summer; people feared the...
View ArticleMarlow Music Makers will masquerade Movie Melodies mellifluously this July
ALTHOUGH five years may be a modest cause for celebration, Marlow Museum was glad to recall, last Saturday, its inauguration in 2009. There were balloons and bubbly as Marlow Mayor, Suzanne Brown, cut...
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