Coronavirus update
- There are hopes that our area will fall into tier 1, the lowest tier of restrictions, when details about local areas are released on Thursday. Buckinghamshire’s rate of new infections is below the average for the rest of the country. However, the number of people being treated in the county’s hospitals for Covid 19 is rising and the prospects of how local hospitals can cope will be a significant factor in deciding which tier we fall into.
- Many local organisations will wait until Thursday’s announcement before deciding what they can and cannot do once lockdown ends next Wednesday. Local councils will meet today to decide how to bring back services currently suspended.
- Under present plans Christmas services at Holy Trinity, Penn and St Margaret’s, Tylers Green will be limited this year . Christmas Day morning services will be held at both churches and a midnight mass at Holy Trinity on Christmas Eve. All will have a limit on congregation numbers to enable social distancing. It is currently envisaged that the annual carol service on 13 December and the traditional Lessons and Carols service on 20 December will both be online via the churches’ website and audio only. It is further anticipated that the Christingle service on 20 December and the Christmas Eve crib service will be available on video, again via the church website.
- Wycombe Wanderers is expecting that some fans will be present for the first time for nearly nine months when they play Stoke City at Adams Park on Wednesday 2 December. Penn and Tylers Green Football Club, which doesn’t have a fixture for the first weekend after lockdown, said last night the first team had arranged a friendly against another team for Saturday 5 December.
- Buckinghamshire NHS Trust is introducing a Same Day Emergency Care Unit for older people as part of its winter planning which has an overall objective to reduce the number of people staying in hospital. Officially, the NHS “winter” begins next Wednesday, the day the current lockdown ends.
- Local musicians and entertainers are preparing a series of concerts to be broadcast online to local care homes from the stage of the Norden Farm Arts Centre in Maidenhead.
Local news
Radiation leak – The M40 was closed near Stokenchurch early yesterday after fire fighters detected radiation leaking from a van involved in a crash. The driver was checked for contamination before being allowed to go to hospital and the van removed by a specialist decontamination team.
Robbery arrest – Police have arrested a 41 year old man from Slough on suspicion of armed robbery at McColls store in Penn Road, Beaconsfield last Friday.