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Another criminal preying on the vulnerable has been put behind bars following concerns from neighbours and a local community which led to an investigation by Trading Standards officers.

It has been confirmed that four candidates will be seeking votes from more than 7,800 electors in the upcoming Totteridge and Bowerdean Division by-election in High Wycombe.

Polling for the Buckinghamshire County Council seat takes place on Thursday 7 February and follows the sad passing of Chaudhary Ditta in November last year.

Drivers in High Wycombe will have noticed that the Variable Message Signs (VMS) for car parks in and around the town are now giving out accurate information about parking spaces.

Time has been called by Trading Standards officers in Buckinghamshire on more than £10,000 worth of counterfeit alcohol, cigarettes and designer clothes seized in the past three years. 

Around 4,500 illegal or dangerous items, locked away in their evidence strongroom in the bowels of County Hall, Aylesbury, must now be disposed of to make room for seizures during 2019. 

Couples planning their wedding or civil partnership can now make use of an exclusive online service offered by Buckinghamshire County Council’s Registrars.

Today's special Cabinet meeting formally agreed the County Council's consent to the making of all the necessary legal regulations by the Government to create a single new unitary council for Buckinghamshire, on the basis of further details provided by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Consultation is about to start on the modernisation of Buckinghamshire's residential short breaks (respite) service for adults. Cabinet members agreed [Monday 7 January 2019] to a six week consultation starting 16 January 2019. 

The County Council is ‘beginning to demonstrate some early signs of improvement in some parts of the service providing help and protection for children’, according to Ofsted in their latest monitoring visit letter published on 8 January 2019.

Buckinghamshire County Council's Cabinet has agreed a series of changes to the county's household recycling centre service.