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Fitlife Health Club Limited went into insolvent liquidation on 17 September. The Haddenham gym is still open, still selling memberships, and keeping the name.
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Buckingham
Buckingham Charity Shop: Air Ambulance Opens on Well Street
The National Children's Air Ambulance has opened a boutique store at 64 Well Street, Buckingham. Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.
Planning
Stoke Mandeville plan made, green buffer policy deleted
Stoke Mandeville's neighbourhood plan now decides planning applications, 834 to 81 at referendum. The examiner cut its green buffer and transport policies.
Transport
Buckinghamshire transport plan: Aylesbury rail link unfunded
Buckinghamshire adopts its first transport plan since 2016 on 16 September. It names Aylesbury a congestion hotspot and the East West Rail link there unfunded.
Planning
Bierton planning application: 36 homes backed, vote 9 Sept
Officers back 36 homes off Barnett Way, Bierton, against 188 objections and the village's own plan. Councillors vote Wednesday 9 September at 2pm.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury Christmas lights switch-on: Sunday 22 November
Christmas on the Cobbles runs noon to 6pm on Sunday 22 November 2026. The illuminated parade sets off at 5pm, the lights follow, then fireworks. Free entry.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre panto: Sleeping Beauty, 4 Dec
Sleeping Beauty runs at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre from 4 December 2026 to 3 January 2027. Laura Main and Andy Collins star, cheapest seats £15.60 today.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury fireworks: no 2026 bonfire night date is out yet
No bonfire night display in the Aylesbury area has a published 2026 date. The one firework display with a confirmed date is on 22 November. What we checked.
Buckingham
Buckingham Christmas lights: Thursday 26 November, 4pm
Buckingham's lights go on outside the Old Gaol from 4pm on Thursday 26 November 2026, with carols and stalls. The 12 December parade has been cancelled.
Planning
Chilton Anaerobic Digester: 8 Parish Councils Object
Officers recommend approval of the Hornage Farm plant near Chilton on Wednesday, against eight parish councils and a petition of more than 1,600 names.
Buckingham
Buckingham Railway Walk Made a Footpath, Not a Bridleway
Seven years after the town council applied, the route between Tingewick Road and the A421 goes on the definitive map. As a footpath, not the bridleway claimed.
Buckingham
Buckingham Christmas Parade Cancelled After 40 Years
The volunteer committee cannot run the 2026 parade. The lights switch on is a separate council event, and councillors decide what replaces it on 5 October.
Local Info
Aylesbury Bin Days: Food Weekly, Green Bin Every 2 Weeks
Food waste weekly, blue-lidded recycling and the 140-litre green bin fortnightly. Every round slides a day in the bank holiday week, and garden waste is £65.
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire and the largest place in the vale that carries its name. Buckingham, twelve miles north, is the older town and much the smaller one, and between and around them are Wendover under the Chilterns escarpment, Winslow, Haddenham, Waddesdon and a long list of villages that mostly identify with whichever of the two they shop in.
Since 2020 one authority has run the lot. Buckinghamshire Council replaced the county council and the districts, so planning, bins, parking, council tax, roads and schools all now come out of the same building. It publishes the evidence behind those decisions in registers hardly anybody opens. We open them and write down what they say, with a link to the document every time.
Every fact carries a link to the document behind it.