Bucks Free Press
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Publisher | Newsquest |
| Founded | 1856 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Loudwater, Buckinghamshire |
| Circulation | 6,447 (as of 2023)[1] |
| Website | bucksfreepress |
The Bucks Free Press is a weekly local newspaper, published every Friday and covering the area surrounding High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It was first published on 19 December 1856.
It covers news for south Buckinghamshire—focusing primarily on High Wycombe, Amersham, Princes Risborough and Beaconsfield—as opposed to the entire county.
Marlow has its own edition called the Marlow Free Press which has a number of changed pages.
The paper covers local news, features, leisure and sport. The sport section features extensive coverage of Wycombe Wanderers football club who play at Adams Park, High Wycombe.
Alongside the main Bucks Free Press paper, it also publishes an Aylesbury edition and a Chesham and Amersham edition each week.
The fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett started his career as a journalist with the Bucks Free Press in 1965.[2][3][4]
In March 2017, the paper appointed the first female editor in its history, Samantha Harman. The current editor is Katie French who oversees Newsquest's Buckinghamshire and Berkshire region as regional editor.
Notable journalists
[edit]- Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), comic fantasy writer, started as a trainee in 1965.[2][3][4] In 2010 Bucks Free Press released an online anthology of 250 short stories by Pratchett originally published between 1965 and 1970.[4][5][6] Additional short stories, written under the previously unknown pseudonym Uncle Jim were discovered in the 2020's, and included in the 2023 posthumous book A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories.[2][3][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bucks Free Press". Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK). 22 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ a b c Burrows, Marc (2 March 2023). "The delightful surprise of "new" Terry Pratchett stories – In 2017, a steamroller crushed the hard drive containing Pratchett's unpublished material, as per his wishes. But this discovery is different". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024.
- ^ a b c Power, Ed (20 October 2023). "How two retired doctors hunted down Terry Pratchett's lost stories – In the 70s and 80s, Pratchett published short stories under a pseudonym while working as a local newspaper journalist. Decades later, husband-and-wife superfans Jan and Pat Harkin went on a hunt to find them". inews. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024.
- ^ a b c Cain, Rebecca (10 June 2010). "Terry Pratchett's 250 stories will be online for fans to enjoy". Bucks Free Press. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020.
Between 1965 and 1970 the fantasy author wrote weekly stories for the Children's Circle section, written under the pseudonym Uncle Jim.
Now due to a collaboration between the Bucks Free Press and Friends of High Wycombe Libraries the 250 stories will all be put online for readers to enjoy.
To read these stories go to www.terrypratchett.weebly.com - ^ Cohen, Steve (2010). "Story time with Uncle Jim". Bucks Free Press. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012.
Between the 8th of October 1965 and the 17th of July 1970, acclaimed fantasy author Terry Pratchett wrote stories for the Bucks Free Press newspaper which were published weekly, sometimes in episodic format. They were printed in the Children's Circle section, written under the pseudonym of Uncle Jim. His style of writing and humour are easily recognisable in places. In total, Terry wrote 247 episodes for Children's Circle – a total of 67 individual stories.
- ^ "Children's Circle by Terry Pratchett". Bucks Free Press. 2010. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012.
- ^ Pratchett, Terry (10 October 2023). "The Quest for The Quest for the Keys, by Pat and Jan Harkin". A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories. HarperCollins. p. 213-216. ISBN 9780063376212.
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