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Sculptor’s naked fat lady riding a 19ft dinosaur set to turn heads at Chelsea Garden Show video
Picture the Chelsea Flower Show and you’ll probably dream of incredible floral displays. Andrew Sinclair thought of a 19ft tall dinosaur ridden by a naked fat lady wearing a top hat.
Meet the canal grotspot A-Team
A taskforce has been set up to tackle litter louts making a mess of Aylesbury’s canal banks.
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Tasty meal showcases good work of Aylesbury prison following ‘negative’ TV documentary
A charity president arranged a VIP dinner at Aylesbury Young Offender’s Institution to show how much positive work is done there following a controversial documentary on the prison.
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Aylesbury High girl’s trip of a lifetime thanks to scholarship
An Aylesbury schoolgirl is travelling to China to teach English with help from a scholarship set up in memory of a much loved teacher.
SLIDESHOW: May Queen crowned at Oakley School video
A new May Queen has been crowned in a ceremony at Oakley School.
Business
Producer hoping for roaring success in Ice Age documentary
This sabre toothed tiger is just one Ice Age animal recreated in a BBC documentary masterminded by a Thame woman.
Slideshow: Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Young Enterprise Final video
Seventy-two teams involving 966 students from 46 schools across Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes were whittled down to one winner to represent the patch at the next stage of the Young Enterprise business competition.
Video: Book idea wins Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Young Enterprise video
A school business team from Aylesbury beat off competition from the new city and the rest of the county to win the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes area final of the Young Enterprise competition.
Aylesbury space firm lands £12m deal
Aylesbury-based space hardware manufacturer COM DEV has won a contract to develop radio frequency electronics equipment for a major international satellite manufacture.
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Hamleys snaps up Aylesbury inventor’s boardgame
Britain’s greatest toy shop has struck a deal with an Aylesbury inventor to stock his boardgame this Christmas.
Health
Boot made in Aylesbury could save millions of diabetic people from foot amputations
Developed by Aylesbury-based firm Pulseboot, the unique design is hoped to be available through the NHS and privately by the end of June.
Updated with comment from NHS: New 111 helpline fails to support family in need
A wife who lost her husband to cancer feels the controversial new NHS helpline 111 failed to help in their hour of need.
The ‘fantastic dad’ who survived three strokes at 21
Andrew Aylen survived three strokes when he was just 21.
Changes galore as hospice team looks to future video
It’s all change at the pioneering hospice organisation which most people in Dacorum know simply as Rennie.
Former glamour model’s shock at dodgy breast implants
Tracy Kiss paid £4,000 for the work eight years ago when she was 18 – but over the years, during which time she has quit modelling and had two children, the implants became disfigured, loosened and became painful to touch.
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Regional News
Man held over teenager shooting
Armed police have arrested a man after a teenager was shot in the back in Luton.
Train death 'should act as warning'
The father of a teenage girl killed after she walked onto a railway line into the path of an oncoming train in Hertfordshire has spoken of his hope that lessons would be learned from the tragedy.
Man sentenced over cyber attacks
A man who used his IT expertise to launch cyber attacks on the websites of Oxford and Cambridge universities has been jailed for two years.
Decorator 'victim of gang rivalry'
An innocent painter and decorator died after being stabbed 25 times by a gang including a man from Hertfordshire as he got caught up in gang warfare on a housing estate, a court has heard.
LulzSec hackers get jail sentences
Members of a group of young British computer hackers, including a man from Essex, who masterminded sophisticated cyber attacks on major global institutions from their bedrooms have been jailed.
National News
Singer 'fine' after new car drama
Chart star George Michael has been airlifted to hospital for treatment to head injuries after a motorway accident - the latest car drama for the troubled singer.
Tribute to 'beautiful' daughter
The father of a 20-month-old toddler who was found dead at a house has spoken of the loss of his "uniquely beautiful" daughter who meant the world to him.
'Dismay' over Litvinenko ruling
The widow of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko has accused a coroner of abandoning his search for the truth about Russian state responsibility for her husband's death.
Dead children name usage 'common'
It was "common practice" for undercover police officers within Scotland Yard to use dead children's identities, an investigation has found.
Bridger's 'mental block' over body
The man accused of murdering April Jones told police he had a "mental block" about what happened to her body, a jury has heard.
- Serial vandals burn memorial seating by Aylesbury canal
- Two Aylesbury men jailed following death of cyclist in Terrick
- Evergreen but never stuck in a rut: Alan Candy road tests the Suzuki Jimny
- Tasty meal showcases good work of Aylesbury prison following ‘negative’ TV documentary
- Man sleeps rough to draw focus on plight of homeless
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