More than 40 local Scouts from Tingewick, Buckingham, Maids Moreton, Marsh Gibbon, Quainton and Grendon Underwood held a water-based challenge day at Dovecot Lake, Calvert, earlier this month.

The first thing to get sorted about Brad Pitt’s new summer blockbuster is whether you’ll be able to order tickets through that infuriating automated service so many multiplexes mistakenly swear by.

What if a film dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?

The Help to Buy scheme is providing a welcome boost to the new homes market and construction industry with developers across the area reporting a strong take up of the government initiative.

With summer finally here many of us are likely to spend more time socialising or relaxing in the garden, or away from home altogether on a seasonal break.

HITCHCOCK (12: 20th Century Fox), a fact-based account of the making of the famous film director’s Psycho, is a disappointingly inconsequential affair.

Milton Keynes Council has organised a Solstice Stroll for Friday evening, taking participants on a four mile long route through some of the varied landscape of the North Bucks Way and the countryside beyond.

Winslow In Bloom takes place from 11am to 5pm on Sunday, with a variety of modern and traditional gardens be open for viewing.

Winslow’s Handmade and Vintage Fair is back in the town’s Market Square from 11am to 3pm on Sunday.

An artist will open her ceramics studio to visitors on Saturday as part of the Bucks Open Studios event.

People in their thirties are moving out of the South East countryside in a stark demographic shift as house prices rise faster in rural areas than in urban areas, despite incomes rising more slowly.

Buckingham’s Nelson Street Restaurant has been granted permission to extend its opening hours, despite strong objections from neighbours.

See what’s on across the Advertiser and Review region over the coming weeks.

Increased confidence in the housing market saw prices in the South East hit a three-year high during May, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey, released today.

“Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.”

According to the latest research from Lloyds TSB, one in six second steppers are contemplating turning to the bank of mum and dad to plug the gap between the value of their first home and the cost of the house they would ideally move to.

People will be skating on thin ice at MK Theatre this week, but they know what they are doing - they are The Imperial Ice Stars, after all. If they can’t do it, then no-one can!

Playing like The West Wing in stove-pipe hats, Steven Spielberg’s biopic LINCOLN (12: Twentieth Century Fox) may be a little stolid for some.

You can still be beside the waterside without going to the seaside you know, and a trip to the Great Linford Waterside Festival is just as much fun!

Let’s be honest, when the version of Superman which most of us have hot-wired into our cinematic memory banks first hit the screen, we didn’t believe a man could fly despite what the tagline claimed.