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Warren Whyte, Cabinet Member for Planning and Environment, said: “The new Garden Town status for Aylesbury is great news for Aylesbury and for Buckinghamshire. We are very pleased to be a joint partner in this Garden Town initiative and we are delighted that the bid has been successful.

With the Queen's New Year honours announcement still fresh, Buckinghamshire's Honours and Awards Committee is actively seeking the county's unsung heroes for future acclaim.

Two youths were fined by High Wycombe magistrates for dumping mattresses in a field after an sharp-eyed member of the public spotted what they were doing and noted down the registration number of their truck.

The details of Buckinghamshire County Council's proposed £324m budget will be put under the microscope later this month – and for the first time members of the public will be able to quiz council bosses.

The final few furlongs of shared cycleway and footpath are being laid to form the new 5.6 mile Winslow to Buckingham sustainable travel scheme.

They're putting the finishing touches to Aylesbury's new Stocklake Urban road, which has been under construction since Spring.

Winter flooding problems that have plagued residents of Horsenden Lane, Princes Risborough, have been solved thanks to a £720,000 county wide drainage improvement programme.

Buckinghamshire County Council has appointed Sheila Norris to its top position for Communities, Health and Adult Social Care.

Buckinghamshire County Council has decided not to go ahead with the development of a new waste transfer station at London Road Depot, Amersham, that would have been used to transfer household waste from the south of the county to the new energy from waste plant at Greatmoor, north of Aylesbury (pictured).