Coronavirus update
- Unconfirmed figures suggest that coronavirus infections in Buckinghamshire have increased in the first full week of lockdown compared to the week before. Details will be released tomorrow.
- Wycombe (and Tylers Green) MP Steve Baker is vice chairman of a group of at least 50 backbench MPs formed to fight against a third national lockdown once the current lockdown finishes on 2 December. He told the media: “The country is crying out for a radically different and enduring strategy for living with the virus…rather than throwing our prosperity away by shutting down and destroying our economy.”
- Consultants and doctors are holding an on-line question and answer session this evening with people in the Wycombe area who are awaiting surgery or had surgery delayed because of the pandemic.
- There’s growing concern about an increase in homelessness in the second lockdown. Three homeless people – two men aged 38 and 40 and a 41 year old woman – were found dead on the streets of Oxford at the weekend and as the weather worsens charities are stepping up their efforts to help.Wycombe Homeless Connection has its Big Sleepout fundraiser next Friday (20th) asking people to sleep somewhere different at home, like the garden or an empty bathtub.
- A classic car show due take place at Hazlemere Golf Club on Sunday was cancelled last night when organisers decided it could not be held with the current restrictions.
- Classical pianist Alexander Ullmann is performing a concert at an empty theatre in Maidenhead tonight. His recital on the stage of the Courtyard Theatre at the Norden Farm Arts Centre is being streamed to an audience happy to pay £15 to watch via the centre’s website.
Local news
Bird thefts – Police last night warned people with aviaries to be particularly alert and security conscious after a number of thefts from aviaries in the immediate area.
Garage protests – Some neighbours have joined Penn Parish Council in protesting against the plan to convert the former Winter’s garage in Church Road, Penn into a private house. Many are concerned that visitors to Slades Garage, opposite, who currently park on the Winter’s site will have nowhere to park when they visit Slades in the future and cause congestion on the junction with Beacon Hill. Others say the proposed house is too big for the site.