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THE fire service in Buckinghamshire has come out on top of a survey measuring how well fire fighters perform at emergency incidents.
The survey was conducted last year and involved a total of 37 fire and rescue services across the UK.

VILLAGERS in Chalfont St Giles were shocked to see the area appearing on a BBC comedy.
The BBC One show Rock and Chips, which details the early life of Del Boy Trotter from the hit 1980s sitcom Only Fools and Horses, was partly filmed in the village.

Building work on the Rural Housing Trust site on Garden Field, Chalfont St Giles, has been temporarily suspended because of the cold weather.
A spokesman for the Rural Housing Trust confirmed that the freezing weather had made work impossible for the time being but that building would resume as soon as the weather improves.

With this year marking the 40th anniversary of comedy programme Dad's Army, members of the Chalfont St Giles community are reminiscing back to 1971 - when the village was used as the set for the film of the series.
Set in the fictional village of Walmington-on-Sea, the plot centred around a group of elderly men, most of them local traders, who, under the watchful eye of the bank manager, formed a Home Guard battalion to protect the citizens of England's South coast from invasion by the Germans.
When Columbia films decided to make a feature length film based on the television programmes, it picked Chalfont St Giles as a quintessentially old-fashioned English setting and took over the village for nearly a fortnight.

This is a list of planning applications received this week by Chiltern District Council.
Representations should be made either in writing to the Head of Planning Services, Chiltern District Council, King George V Road, Amersham, Bucks, HP6 5AW or by e-mail to planning@chiltern.gov.uk. If you use e-mail would you also include your postal address.
Your comments should be received by 7 November 2008:

A Michelin chef has been recruited by the new landlord at the White Hart hotel and restaurant in Chalfont St Giles.
Steve Dowell, who previously worked at the Box Tree in Oakley, Yorkshire and Tante Claire restaurant in London, is joining the existing kitchen team as head chef at the White Hart, which last week was taken over by restaurateur and hotelier Salvatore Fernandez,

Valuers from Bonhams Auctioneers will be at Chiltern Open Air Museum next Tuesday 16 September from 4pm - 8pm to value antiques brought along by members of the public.
Guy Haskell and his team from Bonhams Auctioneers in Henley are generously supporting this charity by donating the proceeds of the event to the Museum.

The next meeting of the Chalfont St Giles Revitalisation Committee will take place on Monday, September 8 in the Reading Room at 6pm.

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