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Buckingham constituency

October 2021

  • High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire

    Tory MPs back plan to give people a vote on new housing in their areas

    Steve Baker and Greg Smith believe local decision-making will encourage public to see benefits of development

November 2020

  • John Bercow

    I've changed my mind: grammar schools are unhealthy and must go

    John Bercow
    The former Speaker and MP for selective Buckingham was an ardent defender - until his own children went to school and he drilled down into the stats

April 2016

  • Soulbury Boot (a stone), Soulbury, Bucks.

A large boulder which has sat in the middle of a road for hundreds of years will not be moved, despite a car crashing into it, the local council has said.

Local resident June Wright stands on top of the Soulbury Boot. 

Photograph by Felix Clay

    The Soulbury stone never loses – and now the council knows it

    Parish chiefs threatening to move Buckinghamshire’s most famous traffic obstruction have given in to locals threatening to chain themselves to their revered ancient glacial erractic – but what next for this mysterious little boulder?

May 2013

  • Pinewood film studios

    Pinewood Studios expansion plan blocked by local council

    Lord Grade loses planning permission bid for Hollywood-style development on 100 acres of green belt

April 2010

  • General election 2010: Cif at the polls
    Bercow or bust?

    Ian Mayes

    Ian Mayes: Being stuck in the Speaker's constituency means that Labour or Liberal Democrat voters have no real choice at all

November 2009

  • John Bercow and his wife, Sally

    Speaker John Bercow's wife to stand for Labour

    Sally Bercow, whose husband is the former Conservative MP for Buckingham, to contest Tory-controlled Westminster ward

September 2009

  • Simon Hattenstone

    Nigel Farage is the obvious choice to restore 'Order! Order!'

    Simon Hattenstone
  • Farage to step down as Ukip leader to concentrate on ousting Speaker

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