Local news
Big drop in local Covid cases – Latest confirmed figures show a big drop in new Covid cases in Penn, Tylers Green and Hazlemere. In the seven days to last Saturday there were six cases in the Penn/Holmer Green/Knotty Green area compared to 21 in the previous seven days. In Tylers Green there were seven new cases compared to eight previously, while in Hazlemere seven compared to 26 the week before.
Latest unconfirmed figures show a continued decline this week in the local area although the number of deaths of those who tested positive for Covid in the previous 28 days remains static.
In the week to Wednesday there were 71 new cases in the Chiltern area, which includes Penn, compared to 88 in the previous week. In the Wycombe area, which includes Tylers Green and Hazlemere, there were 212 new cases compared to 257 and in South Bucks, which includes Beaconsfield, there were 70 compared to 81. The number of deaths in the three regions was 28 compared with 29 the previous week.
Open Gardens – This year’s Penn and Tylers Green Open Gardens event will be held on the afternoon of Sunday 6 June, the organisers have announced. The event is a major fund-raiser for Village Care and had to be postponed until September last year because of the pandemic. Fingers crossed for this year.
Football Club expands – The ever expanding Penn and Tylers Green Football Club has restructured its coaching and development of players with the creation of an under-23 men’s team. Dan Munio has been appointed manager of both this and the under-18 side. “We hope to attract and develop the best young footballers in the local area, feeding these into a successful first team,” said the club’s head of football Nigel Miller.
‘A half term like no other’ – Mrs Vanessa Pinkney, the head of Tylers Green Middle School, thanked parents, pupils and everyone connected with the school for their work during six weeks of remote education this year, which has become increasingly sophisticated and effective. The school has taught 45 pupils of key workers, split into year group bubbles, in the classroom while at the same time teaching children at home via the Google Classroom facility. All schools in the area have been adapting in a similar fashion.
“With daily updates from the Department for Education, Google Classroom queries, live zoom and Google Meet arrangements, as well as registers and emails, you can image it has been a half term like no other,” said Mrs Pinkney in the school’s half term newsletter.
Road fatality – A man died in a crash which blocked the A404 Hazlemere to Amersham road for several hours on Wednesday. Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident at the Mop End junction at 12.15pm. A man and a woman from Hazlemere were also involved in the two vehicle collision and are in a stable condition in hospital. The 57 year old driver from Widmer End died at the scene. He has not yet been officially identified.
Speed petition – A petition has been launched in Beaconsfield to extend the 30mph speed limit on the Penn Road going into the town.
Memorial service – A memorial service for the Rev Nigel Stowe will be held when large gatherings are permitted again, his family have said. The Rev Stowe’s funeral service will be streamed via video link from Chilterns Crematorium on Monday. He was Vicar of Penn Street for 25 years and officiated at both Holy Trinity, Penn and St. Margaret’s, Tylers Green.
Studio home – Penn based broadcaster Gabby Logan told Hello magazine that she has transformed part of the living room of her Beacon Hill home into a makeshift studio to enable her to record programmes and podcasts while working from home.
Regional news
Regatta postponed – Henley Regatta has been postponed from late June to 10 August and may, for the first time, be held at Dorney Lake near Dorney, the 2012 Olympic rowing venue. If the venue is changed it will create problems for the Henley Festival, still due to go ahead in July, which uses the Regatta’s staging and infrastructure.
Goose shot – The charity Swan Support is to carry out reconstruction surgery on a Canada goose’s beak after it was shot in the face by a vandal with an air rifle near Windsor.
Funds shortage – Buckinghamshire Fire Brigade said this week it will run out of money unless it is granted more cash from the Government. The fire authority agreed to use more than £1m from its reserves to balance the books.
HS2 eviction – Bailiffs and security officers evicted HS2 protestors from a woodland site near Wendover this week which is on the route of the high speed railway.
The return of the returnable – Rebellion Brewery in Marlow says it is planning to introduce beer in bottles that are returnable. Customers will get 30p back for returning an empty bottle.
This blog is being updated weekly during this current lockdown. Next update is due Friday 26 February.