Matt Adcock at the cinema: Chappie review
Meet Chappie (motion captured Shalto Copley) who, in the near future, becomes a walking, talking ‘real’ Robocop, writes Matt Adcock.Chappie is a ‘Scout’ – a new breed of cyborg crime fighter that has...
View ArticleCouncil due to publish Red Quadrant report into children’s service
A report by the taskforce sent into Bucks County Council’s failing children’s service should be made public shortly.Consultants Red Quadrant came into County Hall following the department’s...
View ArticleCampaigners train for HS2 showdown
Five years ago today the government announced plans for HS2.And now that the full scale of the project has sunk in, campaigners are working harder than ever with their attempts to stop the high speed...
View ArticleCouncil turns broadband provider
A £1.5m scheme by the district council to deliver superfast broadband in isolated villages could be completed by the end of summer.The North Marston/ Granborough/ Hogshaw area has been chosen as it’s...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVD reviews: The Drop, The Homesman, Paddington, No Good Deed
James Gandolfini had already laid the ghost of iconic TV Mob boss Tony Soprano to rest with his final film before his death in the summer of 2013.He plays a money-launderer in off-kilter but...
View ArticleRobo-chemist! New machine will help dispense drugs more efficiently at hospital
It’s not quite R2D2 or C3PO, but a new pharmacy robot is set revolutionise how drugs are dispensed at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The robot is part of a wider project to streamline the pharmacy...
View ArticleBusiness Eye: Council would laugh if BT went into rubbish collection
Picture yourself years from today looking back over your life. Wouldn’t it be amazing if you genuinely felt you had stepped up to master your fears and joys?Let me tell you a secret you already know....
View ArticleFarming Matters: Old tractor competition
If you have a vintage tractor in full working order that is still part of the working tackle on your farm there’s a chance to win £1,000.LammaXchange, a farming machinery classified website, has...
View ArticleMatt Adcock at the cinema: Run All Night review
It’s hard to review an action crime thriller starring Liam Neeson these days without comparing it to Taken, which reset the gold standard for them in 2008, writes Matt Adcock. Taken kick-started...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVD reviews: Interstellar, St Vincent, Horrible Bosses 2
Christopher Nolan, the director who explored the tortured psyche of Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy and the subconscious mind in Inception, now goes to infinity and beyond with cosmic epic...
View ArticleBusiness Eye: Simple change can be powerful stuff
Did you know last Saturday was Pi Day? I guess it may have passed you by in your full on, forever changing life of keeping up with the world around you.Pi is the ratio of every circle’s circumference...
View ArticleMatt Adcock at the cinema: Insurgent review
In the near future, a girl named Tris (Shailene Woodley) is on a mission to stand against the corrupt draconian government led by the evil Jeanine (Kate Winslet).Tris can do this because she’s a...
View ArticleLitter louts costing taxpayers £350,000
Litter louts are costing taxpayers £350,000 a year which could be better spent on frontline services, according to the district council.Gareth Bird, AVDC’s community spaces manager, said it was...
View Article‘It totally vindicates everything we have said’: Lords report slamming HS2...
Campaigners against HS2 have hailed a highly critical House of Lords report which claims the government has not made a convincing case for the £50bn scheme.The Lords Economic Affairs Committee said...
View ArticleNeighbours’ shock as police officer is arrested on suspicion of killing his...
Residents have spoken of their shock after a Northamptonshire Police officer was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife.The 49-year-old, named locally as Detective Constable Otis Goldsmith, was...
View ArticleBusiness Eye: Budget
During the Chancellor’s tongue in cheek Budget speech last Wednesday I was in the Mix 96 Studio offering live commentary on what it meant for us here in Bucks.Our friends at Bucks Herald Towers must...
View ArticleFarming Matters: Searching for old tractors
A few weeks ago I wrote about a competition currently running to find the oldest working tractor.(Original story here)Entries have flooded in, and with them, some rather touching stories.One is about a...
View Article“Can you make a difference to a vulnerable child’s life?”
It’s a sobering fact that more than 50 per cent of children in care in Buckinghamshire have to be placed with families outside this county.That’s because there simply are not enough people in...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVD reviews: Predestination, Penguins Of Madagascar, Ribbit, Get...
A time-travelling secret agent journeys back and forth through history in search of a bomber who has eluded him throughout his career in sci-fi thriller PREDESTINATION (15: Signature). Until it spirals...
View ArticleGail Adcock at the cinema: Cinderella review
No swashbuckling, shoot-’em-up or superhero antics this week. Instead sisters are doin’ it for themselves and bringing girl power by viewing, well, the er, totally brand new retelling of Cinderella...
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