PLANS for a Cybercafe in Beaconsfield have been scrapped because of its failure to win lottery funding.

The Cybercafe Steering Committee finally agreed on Wednesday of last week to abandon the plan.

Its bid for £112,000 from the lottery was turned down in April because Cyberfield, the company set up to deal with the project, had an agreement with another company set up to run the cafe on its behalf. This is against lottery guidelines which say the project must be directly run by the organisation concerned.

The lottery money would have paid for the project for its first year.

Beaconsfield town councillor and Cybercafe steering committee member Teresa Rossell (Con, North Ward), who was not at the last meeting, said the plans had lost momentum as so many committee members had been involved in the elections.

She said: "I know there is internet access at the library but we were trying to create somewhere for the community and a place where youngsters could meet up with their friends."

Speaking at the time of the refusal of funds, town councillor Coralie Heasman (Ind, West Ward), who was behind the application, had said that the scheme had reached the second stage of the funding process but had been refused because the community association was not giving the service directly.