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BBC News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Deaf actor Jude Powell is 'huge talent' says Adrian Scarborough
Adrian Scarborough has said a deaf actor who appeared alongside him in crime show The Chelsea Detective is "a huge talent" who will "go a long, long way".Jude Powell from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, made his TV debut playing a deaf and non-verbal Scarborough is best known for his role in comedy Gavin and 21, said Scarborough "made me feel very welcome" and added: "It's so wonderful that there are many more opportunities for deaf actors now compared with six or more years ago." He also paid tribute to deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis "for making such a big difference and driving positive change." Powell's acting journey began at Heathlands School for deaf children in St Albans, where he had the opportunity to perform on later joined Deafinitely Theatre in London, which "had a huge impact on my acting career by teaching me to express emotion more physically and clearly."Acting gave him the chance "to bring a unique layer of expression to the screen and stage through British Sign Language (BSL), which is my first language", he continued. In the Chelsea Detective episode Myths and Legends, which centres on a stolen coin, Powell plays the role of Jake Green, who works at a pub and also scours the River Thames for treasure as a said different BSL interpreters and consultants were on set each day, "to ensure that deaf and hearing actors work together smoothly"."Most of the crew have deaf awareness, and one of the main characters is played by deaf actress Sophie Stone," he said."On my first day on set, Adrian spotted me, came over to say hello, and used a bit of sign language, like the sign for 'nice'." Scarborough, who comes from Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, was full of praise for the new actor."He really is an extraordinary guy. Just completely brilliant – it was so wonderful to watch him acting."We have another deaf actor in the show, Sophie, and it was really wonderful to have moments of them together."He writes and makes film too. I think he's a huge talent and will go a long, long way."You'll be seeing a lot more of him, for certain." Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
24-06-2025
- BBC News
Teen critical after brick thrown into High Wycombe car
A teenager has been left with life-threatening facial and head injuries after a brick was believed to have been thrown into a moving happened on Walton Drive in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, at about 21:20 BST on said they thought the object entered the blue BMW through an open window. The man, in his late teens, remains in hospital in a critical condition.A 17-year-old boy, from High Wycombe, was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and released on bail until 10 September. Det Ch Insp Holly Stockwell, from Thames Valley Police, said: "I understand this assault will be concerning but we believed it was a targeted attack with no threat to the wider public."She said patrols had been increased in the area and appealed for witnesses to get in touch. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Telegraph
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
London's graffiti-riddled corpse is a warning of our apocalyptic future
One of the founders, Joe Reeves, 28, shared his rationale for trying to save London, wash cloth by wash cloth. 'I grew up in High Wycombe, which is a 25-minute train ride into Marylebone and then the Bakerloo line into Oxford Circus. The Bakerloo line was this symbol of 'I've arrived in the greatest city in the world.' I was going down the stairs and through this tunnel, and then I would appear somewhere in this amazing city surrounded by opportunity.' Flash forward to his experience now, which most people will find familiar. 'Every morning, I go to Lambeth North station to go to my office, and I see someone push past the barrier,' Reeves says. 'I tap in and follow them in, and then I share a lift with them down to the platform, this person that just stole from me and everybody else on the platform in front of me. They're playing music out loud on their phone. Everybody else is rolling their eyes, frustrated, but no one's doing anything, and the carriage is covered in graffiti.' Personally, I do not think that spray-paint on public (or private) property can ever be called art. But when vandalism is just hideous it's somehow easier to take than when it becomes murderously political, which is the turn it's taken since, you guessed it, October 7 2023. With the license to treat London like a toilet or a rubbish bin firmly in place, courtesy of Sadiq Khan's bizarrely anti-improvement mayoralty, it wasn't going to be a big leap to target 'Zionists', directly or indirectly, on as many public surfaces as possible, constantly. It's a perfect storm. In neighbourhoods like mine, a strong presence of illegal migrants doing their thing below the radar (some of it decent hard work, some of it not), hostels for new arrivals and asylum seekers, and lots of unemployed youths who have given the two fingers to education are all part of the meteorology of the moment. Once home to refugees from Nazi Austria, Germany, Hungary and Poland, my area of London became famous for its Mitteleuropean café culture in the mid-to-late 20th century. People who frequented these cafés in the 1950s and 1960s remember hearing strongly accented old people talking about psychoanalysis where vape shops and grungy middle-eastern supermarkets now sit. 'The bus conductor would call out 'Jerusalem' or 'Vienna'! The German accent in the streets was predominantly Austrian,' recalled Walter Gratzer, a refugee who became a distinguished chemist upon release from an internment camp on the Isle of Man at the start of the war. Now the same road is stalked by feral youths, people who speak no English at all, and has become a throbbing centre of virulent anti-Israel, sometimes Hamas-glorifying, noise-making. We hear it, we feel it, and we see it everywhere in bright ugly letters. That it has become an epicentre of such stuff is not a surprise: it is now home to a large community of people from backgrounds that make them more likely to give voice or be sympathetic to anti-Zionist outpourings. Over the past few years, I have come to see cars, even on the quiet tree-lined roads parallel to my own, emblazoned with emblems of the Palestinian cause – one has a map of Israel done up in green, red and black and a few lines of Arabic translating to 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' on its back window. It's not just unnecessary: it's aggressive. Other daily sights, albeit painted over quite quickly either by horrified locals or the council (I suspect the former) include scrawls (to take just a few recent examples) of 'Israel kills kids', 'F--k Israel', 'Gaza' and 'Free Palestine' and 'Zionists out' over street signs, security grilles and protective covers of shop fronts, and buildings. You can't not see this stuff every day, no matter the route you choose. As soon as one vile message is taken down, another pops up. It's not all bad. For all the scary louts, the nocturnal vandals with spray cans, the phone-thieving chancers, the shoplifters, the music-blaring ruffians, the weed-smoking trespassers, the fare-dodging criminals, and the Islamist sympathisers there are lots of kind, decent people of all ages, backgrounds, both men and women. Someone is always on hand to enthusiastically help with a heavy suitcase or a pram and generally people are considerate on public transport. It's just that the exceptions to this have become painfully frequent and give a feeling of a society coming unstuck, brewing nastiness and danger of a type not seen since in several generations. We have a double society. We have the ugly, dangerous descent into lawlessness, the trashing of our cities by people who feel entirely free to visit their anti-social, crassly political impulses on public property. But we also have the noticeable, reliable kindness of people. I now believe that each type of behaviour is simply a matter of personal inclination, since nobody has much to fear from order-enforcing authorities anymore, either from police or other people's judgment. As the guys from Looking For Growth have found, people keep to themselves and say nothing because they are frightened to intervene. We all feel that fright. I just hope that the good people don't lose the courage and the decency to go on being good, as the cities around them decay into crime and the personal studios of people who mean not just 'Zionists', but all of us, ill.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fire crews tackle large warehouse blaze overnight
Firefighters have spent the night tackling a blaze at a large recycling warehouse. Crews from seven stations were called to Cressex Business Park in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire at 01:00 BST. The fire affected a building measuring 80m by 60m (262ft by 196ft), and several roads were expected to remain closed throughout Tuesday. "Local business and residents may wish to keep doors and windows closed while the fire continues to generate smoke," Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue said. It added the fire happened at a "large component for recycling materials" in Coronation Road. People have been asked to avoid the business park and junction four of the M40. Coronation Road's junctions with Halifax Road and Lincoln Road were shut, Buckinghamshire Highways said. "The incident response began to be scaled back shortly after 05:00, however road closures are likely to remain in place throughout the day," the fire service added. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
BBC News
03-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Fire crews tackle large warehouse blaze in High Wycombe overnight
Firefighters have spent the night tackling a blaze at a large recycling from seven stations were called to Cressex Business Park in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire at 01:00 fire affected a building measuring 80m by 60m (262ft by 196ft), and several roads were expected to remain closed throughout Tuesday."Local business and residents may wish to keep doors and windows closed while the fire continues to generate smoke," Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue said. It added the fire happened at a "large component for recycling materials" in Coronation have been asked to avoid the business park and junction four of the Road's junctions with Halifax Road and Lincoln Road were shut, Buckinghamshire Highways said."The incident response began to be scaled back shortly after 05:00, however road closures are likely to remain in place throughout the day," the fire service added. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
