This month's news
Selected news
Trading standards. Lethal Vodka found on sale -
Date: 27/08/2008Trading Standards in conjunction with Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, Wycombe and South Bucks Environmental Health are issuing a health warning about counterfeit vodka contaminated with methanol after an illegal product has been found on sale.
Proposed new speed limits
Date: 26/08/2008New limits were introduced around Princes Risborough in April 2006, as part of Area 5 of the countywide review.
Visit the County Council at Bucks County Show
Date: 22/08/2008Get a taste of some of the services provided by the County Council at this year's Bucks County Show (Thursday 28 August), Weedon, nr Aylesbury.
Local youths no longer landlubbers as they return from sailing the open seas
Date: 18/08/2008Six young people from Buckinghamshire schools put their sailing skills to the test last week as they skippered a yacht for the first time.
Buckinghamshire County Council & a2om providing the world's first BTEC driving qualification
Date: 14/08/2008Shocking government figures show that every year 30,000 16-year-olds leave school with no qualifications and 3,175 people died in road crashes last year alone.
Looking forward to the 2012 Olympic games
Date: 13/08/2008With the Beijing Olympics now well underway, Buckinghamshire is looking forward to London 2012 and has a number of events organised to celebrate the Handover on Sunday 24th August and the Paralympic Handover on 17th September.
Landfill site transformed
Date: 11/08/2008The landfill site which existed at High Heavens in the Wycombe area, has as part of a large restoration project, been replaced by fields, a wooded area and wild flowers.
Key stage 2 results for Buckinghamshire primary schools
Date: 07/08/2008The provisional results published earlier this week by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) for this year's Key Stage assessments of 11-year-olds show that primary schools in Buckinghamshire are continuing to achieve results well above the national average.
Council shortlist two bidders for Energy from Waste initiative
Date: 06/08/2008Buckinghamshire County Council today announced the next stage of its ‘Energy from Waste’ Initiative by short listing two bidders for its proposed new Energy from Waste facility.
Council closes Aylesbury roads for a triple bridge inspection
Date: 05/08/2008The Council has to close parts of Stoke Road and Old Stoke Road in Aylesbury on the weekend starting Friday, August 15th, to inspect and work on three bridges.
Employers must register all compulsory school age workers
Date: 05/08/2008Random checks on 189 Buckinghamshire businesses during the school summer holidays revealed that 62 young people of school age were working illegally.
Council closes Aylesbury roads for triple bridge inspection
Date: 05/08/2008The Council has to close parts of Stoke Road and Old Stoke Road in Aylesbury on the weekend starting Friday, August 15th, to inspect and work on three bridges.
Trading standards warn 'What are you plugging in your socket?'
Date: 05/08/2008Buckinghamshire Trading Standards Officers are becoming increasingly concerned about the quantity of unsafe ac/dc chargers that have flooded the UK market from China.
Thieves take fifty manhole covers at taypayers' expense
Date: 05/08/2008Thieves helped themselves to almost 50 gulley grates and manhole covers from roads in Buckingham and Thornborough this weekend.
Every child's death to be reviewed to see if lessons can be learned
Date: 04/08/2008The Government has required Local Safeguarding Children Boards to review the deaths of all children under the age of 18 who have died in the area.