TONIGHT is your chance to meet the five candidates standing for Wycombe at the general election on June 7, and put the questions to them that you want answered.

The venue is the Owen Harris Lecture Theatre 1 at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, in Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe. The election forum has been organised by our sister paper, Bucks Free Press, and starts at 7.30pm. Admission is free. Questions can be handed in at the door or during the forum.

The forum will be chaired by John Waite, of BBC's Face the Facts and Your and Yours, who also chaired the highly successful forum held by the Free Press before the 1997 election.

Whichever candidate you elect in June, Wycombe will have a new member of parliament because Sir Ray Whitney has now retired after 23 years. The contest is not necessarily cut and dried because his majority last time was about 3,000.

The three main parties are contesting the seat, as well as a Green and a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party.

Conservative candidate is Paul Goodman, 41, a journalist, who worked for the Sunday Telegraph, has reported Irish affairs and was, until his selection, the comment editor of the Daily Telegraph.

He has a wife, Fiona , a solicitor.

Mr Goodman said: "I've been about the place meeting people since I was selected as a candidate here in Wycombe. Very simply, I want to represent the whole community in High Wycombe and Marlow not just a part of it, or those who vote for my party."

The Lib Dem candidate, Dee Tomlin, is 38 and comes from Twyford in Berkshire. She is chairman of Wokingham District Council and married with two children. She stood for Reading West at the last General Election.

She said: "As an MP, I would look forward to working with the people of Wycombe on a wide range of problems, and bringing my own commitment and down-to-earth approach to making a difference to the people that I represent."

Politicians talk too much and do not listen enough, she added.

Chauhdry Shafique, the Labour candidate, has lived in High Wycombe since childhood. He is married and his children went to local schools. He is a member of Wycombe District Council and teaches at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.

He said: "Over the past 20 years I have developed my awareness of local issues through a number of voluntary activities.

"I have the experience and local roots to serve Wycombe people as their next MP."

For the Greens is John Laker, 54, who stood for the party in the seat last time round. He lives with his partner in Marlow where he plays an active part in the community.

He is the the managing director of Adpac, a packaging material company in Abingdon, a member of the Marlow Town Centre Forum and chairman of Marlow Archaeological Society.

He said he will fight for a sustainable Wycombe area. "Everything else nationally and globally will fall from that," he added.

The UKIP has just set up a branch in High Wycombe and the party's candidate is 54-year-old businessman Christopher Cooke who has lived in Little Chalfont for the past 18 years. He is married with a teenage daughter.

Our constitution is under attack from the European Union, he claimed.

"I am not a professional politician but when our fundamental right to self-government is under threat, it is time to stand up and be counted," he added.