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Ormonde, the Household Cavalry horse known for nibbling tourists at Horse Guards, has retired to The Horse Trust at Speen aged 18. Updated November 2026.
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Schools
Bucks Schools in Deficit: 45 Council Schools, 1 in 3
45 of Buckinghamshire's 137 council-run schools expect a deficit this year, up from 30 two years ago. Their reserves are forecast to fall from £15.4m to £6.2m.
Fire
High Wycombe Flat Fire: Man Dies in Hughenden Boulevard
A man died in a fire in a first-floor flat on Hughenden Boulevard, High Wycombe, early on Sunday 25 October. Eight fire crews attended; a file goes to the coroner.
Marlow
Marlow Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Marlow
Marlow roadworks: Dukes Place (now, until 16 Mar) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Marlow
Marlow Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Marlow weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 86% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Princes Risborough weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 2°C overnight, with a 47% chance of rain and winds up to 4 mph.
Wooburn
Wooburn Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Wooburn weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 4°C overnight, with a 86% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Planning
Walters Ash Shop and Flats Backed, Wooburn Homes Item Pulled
Councillors backed a shop with four flats at 280 Main Road, Walters Ash, on 28 October, closing at 10pm, not 11pm. The Wooburn Green six-homes item was withdrawn.
Local Info
High Wycombe Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today
Cheapest petrol in High Wycombe today: unleaded from 155.9p and diesel from 186.9p a litre, across 9 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning from...
Weather
High Wycombe Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
High Wycombe weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 4°C overnight, with a 47% chance of rain and winds up to 4 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Business
Rebellion Brewery Marlow Goes Employee Owned: Crowdfund 2027
Rebellion at Marlow Bottom passed to an Employee Ownership Trust on 14 October after 33 years, and plans a spring 2027 crowdfund for new tanks and solar panels.
Planning
Wooburn Green Conservation Area: 3 Changes, Say by 29 Nov
Holtspur Lane houses and a Wycombe Lane property would join Wooburn Green's conservation area, first drawn in 1971. Comments close on 29 November.
Parking
High Wycombe Permit Parking: £73 a Year, Say by 23 October
Six High Wycombe streets, from Coningsby Road to Pimms Grove, could get 24-hour permit parking at £73 for a first car. Residents have until 23 October to say.
High Wycombe sits in a gap in the Chilterns and made furniture for centuries, the chairs turned from beech cut in the woods above the town. Marlow is down on the Thames with the suspension bridge, Princes Risborough is the other side of the hills, and Bourne End, Hazlemere, Flackwell Heath and the Chiltern villages fill in around them.
Wycombe Today reports what the record shows across all of it. Since 2020 one authority has run everything here: Buckinghamshire Council took over from the county and the districts, so planning, bins, roads, licensing, council tax and schools all come out of the same place. It publishes the evidence where hardly anybody reads it. We read it and write down what it says, with a link to the document every time.
Nothing here is guesswork. Every figure links to its source.