A HORSE that was among dozens of animals left to die at an Amersham farm in what RSPCA officers described as one of the worst cases of neglect they had seen has been rehomed.

Disney, a five-year-old blue roan and white cob, made the 40-mile-trip to his new home in East Molesey, Elmbridge, Surrey, at the Horse Rangers Association on Friday, August 6, becoming the first horse from Spindles Farm in Hyde Heath to be found a new home.

THE SHOCK closure of a high street store was announced this week just ten months after it first opened its doors.

It was announced on Tuesday that alworths, in Sycamore Road, Amersham, is being forced to close after the landlord of the premises served notice.

JUBILANT students collected their A-level grades today at Dr Challoner's High School with the head girl leading the way in the stakes.
Anna Stansbury achieved a five A* grade swoop at the school in Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont.
Overall the school had a 99.2 per cent pass rate with 96.4 per cent of pupils who sat the exams achieving the A* to C grades.

THE introduction of the new A Level A* grade was welcomed by least three students at Dr Challoner's Grammar School - who clocked up six of them each.
Steven Evans of Great Kingshill, Will Phillips from Gerrards Cross and Mazda Rustomji of Bellingdon achieved half a dozen of the top marks in the first year they have been available.

THE horse trader convicted of what the RSPCA described as the worst case of animal cruelty it had ever witnessed has avoided having his prison sentence extended - but must pay more than £9,000 for five further animal welfare offences.
James Gray, 46, from Hyde Heath, made another court appearance to be sentenced in a case brought by Kent Trading Standards. He had been convicted of five offences dating back to 2007. They relate to bringing 17 horses through the port of Dover while not individually partitioned within a vehicle, not having health certificates for them to be imported and exported, and for breaching a formal notice not to use an unsuitable vehicle to transport them.

RESIDENTS angered by planning permission granted to build 83 new houses and a church on a former school site have spoken of the disruption the building work is causing.
People living in Park Place Amersham, said noise from machinery has been starting at 7am at the neighbouring construction site in Raans Road since the works began on August 3.
Some families said they fear for the safety of their children after youths were spotting taking a shortcut by climbing over a fence cordoning off the site. Homeowners are now seeking legal advice to try to stop the works.

A LITTLE CHALFONT man has been jailed for a burglary in which he broke in to Chesham High School.
Stuart Wright, 24, of Chiltern Heights, in White Lion Road, was sentenced to a 24-week prison sentence by Aylesbury Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (11/8), after pleading guilty to burglary.
Wright was charged on June 11 after forcing entry to the school in White Hill, Chesham, between March 9 and March 10. Nothing was stolen in the incident.
He also asked for a burglary at a property in Lodge Lane, Chalfont St Giles on June 28 to be taken into consideration by the court.

A BUILDING company and one of its directors were fined £15,000 after leaving homeowners in Little Chalfont at risk of serious illness or even death by exposing them to deadly carbon monoxide fumes.
A couple who had employed Wembley building company Rushi Construction (UK) Ltd to build an extension on their home in Westwood Drive were had harmful carbon monoxide gases released in to their house.

MORE than a hundred workers at one of the biggest employers in the Chiltern district face losing their jobs in cost-saving cuts.
The positions of around 150 manufacturing staff at GE Healthcare's headquarters in White Lion Road, Little Chalfont, are under threat as production is set to move overseas.
The employees at the company, which produces medical imaging equipment, drugs and patient monitoring instruments, were told of the news last Thursday and are being consulted on the plans.

CAMPAIGNERS against a proposed high-speed rail line are going to march through the countryside it is set to devastate.
A protest walk against High Speed 2 (HS2) through the Chilterns is set to take place along its proposed route through the Misbourne Valley.
Walkers, who take part in the eight-mile route from Amersham train station to Great Missenden station on September 11, are being asked to raise sponsorship for organisers The Chiltern Society's dedicated anti-HS2 fund.