AN ELDERLY woman has been killed in a car crash on the A404 near Penn Street.
The 73-year-old driver's green Honda Jazz was travelling towards Amersham when it left the road and rolled onto its side in a ditch close to the junction for Penn Street.

A CHOIR, which features people who have never sung in public before, has signed a multi album record deal.
Amersham Rock Choir, which is based at Elangeni School, in Woodside Avenue, Chesham Bois, has joined Universal, which also represents famous faces including Take That, The Rolling Stones and Lady Ga Ga.

THE Dovecote car park will be renamed Amersham Old Town Car Park.
Chiltern District Council's Cabinet members made the decision on Tuesday after concerns were raised about it sharing its name with a car park in High Wycombe.

FEARS have been raised about what the effects of building 2,900 houses in the Chiltern District could have on the area.
Chiltern District councillors spoke about possible consequences the new homes would have on schools, highways and drains at a cabinet meeting to discuss the proposals.
CDC was required by central government to name sites where housing could be built and has released a report to address the issue.

LAND in Amersham Old Town which is used by youth and sports groups and was a potential site for a new community centre faces an uncertain future ahead of a decision on whether it will be officially registered as a 'village green'.
Amersham Town Council annouced it will fight against a bid to protect Barn Meadow from development by not voluntarily submitting it to become a 'green'.
A decision on the future of the land will be made by Buckinghamshire County Council next month and if the application succeeds, it could spell the end for the controversial Barn Meadow Project for good.

HOUSEHOLDERS are set to face a 2.5 per cent increase in their council tax bill.
The average Band D property owner will pay £159.50 to the district council, up from £155.61, in the next financial year - equivalent to an increase of 7p a week.

A CORNER of south Buckinghamshire was forever Scotland as Burns Night was celebrated, complete with a haggis.
Amersham and District Scottish Association and its invited international guests donned kilts to mark the poet's birthday at Harewood Downs Golf Club, in Chalfont St Giles.
Guests were piped in by resident piper Alan Rouse before being welcomed by president Eileen Aitchison.
Traditions from north of the border involved the haggis was being addressed by Andrew Swann, and the Immortal Memory was given by Burns' enthusiast, Wylie White.
A selection of Burns' songs were sung by Phil Parkinson, and Leslie Gibson gave extracts from his favourite Burns' poem, Tam O' Shanter at the event on January 23.
The group's next event will be a Ceilidh to be held next month at Coleshill Village Hall. For more information contact the association's secretary on 01494 728729.

TALENTED dancers from Amersham and Wycombe college are set to compete in a charity competition to raise funds for Haitians devastated by the earthquake disaster.
The dance troupe of students from the college in Stanley Hill, Amersham, will perform a piece, which portrays the trials and tribulations of life as a child soldier, at the British Red Cross's Dance for Life contest in March.

MOTORISTS will have to pay more for leaving their cars in council car parks as charges are set to increase.
Plans include charging more for the cost of one hour stays - from 50p to 60p. The cost of leaving a vehcile for two-hours will go up by 20p to £1.20, Chiltern District Council's Cabinet agreed yesterday. An 'upto three hours' band will also be introduced at the Civic Centre Car Park, in Amersham.
The changes to the tariffs at car parks controlled by Chiltern District Council, are due to take effect from April 1.
They would make an estimated additional £130,000 for the council, according to a report.
However a proposal to introduce a half an hour tariff, as seen in car parks in South Bucks district, was thrown out at the meeting.
The issue will come before the full council later this month.

A VET has likened some of the 'appallingly thin' horses, ponies and donkeys owned by farmer James Gray to survivors of Belsen or Auschwitz concentration camps.
Paul Jepson, veterinary surgeon at The Horse Trust's Home for Rest for Horses, examined 14 equines taken into the charity's care at Speen, near Princes Risborough.
He told a court: "One gets quite used to seeing scruffy ponies but I was quite shocked when I saw these animals - shocked an appalled to be honest. What came to mind was the visions one sees on the television of Belsen and Auschwitz.
"The animals I was looking at, they struck me as appallingly thin but I think, overwhelmingly, the apathy they were exhibiting, that struck me the most.
"My stable manager, who is quite a hard nut, actually cried when she saw these animals, and that is unusual."