A NEW salon in Amersham is set to hold a 'HAIRraising' event on its opening day in aid of charity.
Hob Salons, which launches on Wednesday (24/3) at 34-36 Sycamore Road, is supporting an appeal which encourages the hairdressing community to join forces to help raise £1million for a new operating theatre at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Staff at the salon will be giving up a day's pay to provide some cuts, styles and colourings for half price with all of the proceeds being donated to the charity.

A BRASS band is set to take part in national championships and hopes it will pave the way to moving up a league.
Amersham Band, based in Winchmore Hill, is set to compete in the London and Home Counties regional play-offs of the National Brass Band Championships against 16 bands. The two winning bands from the contest in Stevenage on March 20 will qualify for the national finals later this year. They are set to play a composition of variations on Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony, written by composer Philip Sparke.
Musical director Paul Fisher, who will be conducting the band, said: "We plan to make a strong challenge to the leading bands in our section this year. We have some brilliant players and hidden talent drawn from our local community, and we hope to put Amersham on the map in the 2010 contest."

A GROUP of Brownies fell silent in a successful bid to raise funds for a wildlife hospital.
The 28 girls aged between seven and 10 from the 2nd Amersham on the Hill Brownie Group held a sponsored silence in aid of animals cared for at Tiggywinkles.
The group, who meet at Amersham Free Church Hall, raised £326.04 for their efforts.

THE first of a series of fundraising fairs was held in Amersham last weekend in aid of Cancer Research UK.
More than £100 was raised for the cause at the event on Saturday in Market Hall, in the Old Town, after two friends decided they wanted to do play their part to help beat the disease.

A WORLD record attempt of unscrambling Rubik's Cubes was successfully completed by schoolchildren in Amersham today.
A total of 134 pupils and teachers at Dr Challoner's Grammar School completed the 3D mechanical puzzle in 12 minutes 38 seconds, beating a previous record of 96 people set in America.
Representatives from the owner to the rights of the toy and from its distributor visited the school in Chesham Road to witness the event.

HOME OWNERS in Amersham were shocked to discover this week that the preferred route for High Speed Two is in a tunnel underneath the town.

SLIMMERS shed the pounds while raising funds for a charity which helps provide Bucks hospitals with life-saving equipment.
Around 40 people hoping to make a difference to patient's experiences while improving their wellbeing, took part in Scannapppeal's annual eight-week Slimathon - and have raised an estimated £4,000. Those taking part were able to choose which of the charity's projects to support including The Cancer Fighting Fund at Wycombe Hospital and its HeartScan Appeal at Amersham.

MORE than 300 mourners packed an Amersham Church to celebrate the life of a popular Chesham Bois man.
John Ellis, 90, of Green Lane, Chesham Bois, died on February 24. Mr Ellis was born in the village on November 19, 1919, and spent most of his life living there. After leaving Merchant Taylors School, he joined his father at his estate agency Pretty & Ellis, which had offices in Chesham, Amersham and Great Missenden. He served as an engineer with the Desert Rats in North Africa during the Second World War. Mr Ellis later went on to found Amersham Auction Rooms in Chalfont Station Road, which is now run by his son Dick.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE County Council (BCC) has claimed that it is "pulling out all the stops" to ease the area's pothole problem, despite the continued anger of residents.
The unforeseen harsh winter weather, especially that which took place in late December and early January, took a huge toll on the road s in the area, with deep potholes appearing in numerous roads in the county.

DR CHALLONER'S Grammar School could take over another school to improve standards after being named by the Government as a 'trusted provider' of education.
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown and schools secretary Ed Balls announced the school in Chesham Road, Amersham, as being one of 13 'accredited schools' last week.
This means it could be asked by a local authority to step in to run a school which needs rapid improvement or instructed to by the Government.