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  • Safe home sought for historical Thame documents

    THAME museum and the town council are to investigate where best to keep a set of documents containing the results of the Inclosure Acts, an important part of Thame’s history.
    The documents, restored in 1984, are currently kept in a sealed, metal box in the town hall, but the museum would like to take custody of them on a long-term loan basis.
    However, at a meeting of the town council’ls Policy and Resources committee on Tuesday (15/01), the Chairman, Cllr David Dodds said that he was not satisfied that the museum currently had anywhere suitable to display and keep the box.
    “If the museum could guarantee the appropriate conditions in which these historic documents could be kept in the future, we will consider it,” he said.

    NB The Inclosure Acts were a number of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament dating from the 12th century, which inclosed open fields in the country. The Acts removed the rights that people once held, to graze animals on the areas ‘inclosed’ when not planted by crops.

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  • ‘Death knell for Thame Cattllemarket’

    DISTRICT councillors have sounded the ‘death knell’ for two of Thame’s oldest institutions, according to a local developer whose plans to build a larger, modern cattlemarket on Thame show ground was turned down this week.
    Bob Williams told ThameNews.Net today: “Wednesday was a very sad day for both the Cattlemarket and The Thame Show. I would have thought that the changes we had made to this, our third application, would have had more support.
    “Thame cattlmarket is not sustainable where it is and Thame Show is struggling – it lost

  • Fatal Collision appeal

    THE Police are appealing for information following a fatal collision yesterday (17/1) on the A4012, Howland Road, in Thame.
    At around 10.45pm, a red Volkswagen Golf was travelling from Long Crendon towards Chinnor when it collided with a steel lighting pole, a wooden post and some metal fencing.
    The driver, a 27-year-old man from Chinnor, was pronounced dead at the scene despite efforts to recucsitate him.

    Sgt Chris Simpson, based at Aylesbury police station said: ?The road was closed while police examined the scene.
    ?There may have been people that could have witnessed the incident, or seen the car before the collision and I urge anyone with any information to contact me.?

    Anyone with information can contact Sgt Simpson via 0845 8 505 505, or if you don?t want to talk to the police or give your name, call the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.

  • Thame Cattlemarket Move Rejected

    DISTRICT council planners have rejected the latest proposal to move Thame cattlemarket to a new, edge of town site.
    Following an 8 to 6 vote against the plan at a meeting of South Oxfordshire District Council’s Planning committee last night (16/01), Cllr John Tanner said today that, whilst councillors were sympathetic to the need for the cattlemarket to move, they want to consult on other possible alternative sites. He admitted that the district council itself had been slow to look at other sites and promised that they would come to some conclusions within the next few months.

    MORE INFORMATION: Put ‘cattlemarket’ in the Search box on ThameNews.Net’s Home page, to see all the background news stories relating to Thame cattlemarket including links to the Planning appication details.

  • The Waiting Game – New Appeal For Foster Parents (Contributed)

    TIM is waiting for a new home. Aged 11, he has been with short-term foster carers for over a year. After it became clear, he could not return to live with his parents and that his Nan was too ill to care for him, the search began to find him a long term ? permanent foster home. Tim needs someone to come forward who could foster him until he can live independently. Ideally Tim will be the only or youngest child in the household. Some months have now passed since the search began but sadly no-one has come forward.

    Emma has been living with foster carers for 3 months. She originally went to live with them on an emergency basis. After just a few days of going to live with her emergency foster carers, it became apparent that the problems at home would take a while to fix and that Emma would need to remain in foster care for some months. Emma has settled quite well with her current foster carers but is not happy to have been placed so far from her home. She finds this makes it difficult to see her family, and friends and she positively hates the 20-mile each way journey to school each day. She is hoping that her social worker will move her to foster carers who live nearer to home but each time her social worker visits the news is sadly the same, ?Sorry, but there is no-one available?.

    Local independent fostering agency, familyplacement.com, is working to help Tim and Emma and other children like them. The agency seeks to do this by recruiting foster carers for children in or near to their home area and by encouraging people to consider fostering as an alternative to work outside of the home. As agency director, Andy Clipson says, ?Our foster carers are paid a professional fee in addition to a child maintenance allowance. This allows some people to give up work to start a new career in fostering. Proper rewards do not stop foster carers from loving the kids?. ?All of the agency?s foster carers are also provided with high level support and ongoing training to help them to develop their parenting skills to a higher level.?

    If you think you might be able to help. Please call 01993 201514 or email: info@familyplacement.com

  • Public Consultation Over Future of Thame Fair

    THE residents of Thame are to be asked their views on the future of the September fair, which has been held in the town centre for almost a century.
    The town council intends to open negotiations with the Showmens Guild to set the conditions for the continuation of the fair beyond 2010/11, but wishes to guage public feeling before it does so.
    The fair, which coincides with the Thame Show, has become larger over the years and although many residents say they value its history, culture and tradition, others feel it has become too noisy, attracts anti-social behaviour and disrupts parking and businesses in the town centre.
    Following a petition and complaints about excessive noise, pollution and vibration created by the fair, the town council and the Showmen’s Guild did agree several actions to try to dampen the issues of concern which the council has said it feels did improve things last September. See LINK

    The Questionaires will be distributed with Thame Town Council’s May News Letter.

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  • Money Stolen From Chinnor Church Collection Box (Status: Press Releases)

    THAME Police are appealing for information after two burglaries in Chinnor this week.
    Between 5pm yesterday (15/1) and 8.50am today (16/1), St Andrew?s Church in Church Road, was broken into and cash was stolen from the collection box and some charity collection tins were taken.
    Also, between 10.30pm and 11.30pm yesterday (15/1) a large quantity of meat and a safe, containing around

  • Open Day for Lea Park Residents

    THE recently formed Lea Park Residents Association is inviting all residents to an open afternoon on Sunday, January 27, from 3pm – 5pm at Barley Hill School.
    All residents living on the estate are being urged to go along and give their ideas, views and concerns about Lea Park, to find out what the association is about, meet their neighbours for coffee and a chat and elect a committee to run the association.

    There will be stalls representing Thame in Bloom, Thame Museum, St John Ambulance, Friends of Elm Park, Thame District Guides, Barley Hill Church, Thame Boys Football Club, 21st Century Thame and many more. There will be children?s entertainment and a picture competition inviting youngsters to draw or paint their perfect playground and to take their pictures along by 4pm with name and age on the back, or draw them on the day.

    Refreshments, courtesy of Waitrose and the Co-op, will be provided and transport for the less able-bodied and wheelchair accessible transport will be provided by the Thame Community Car.
    Contact Nick Stock on 01844 215813 by Thursday, January 24. Parking for the day is in the Cattle Market. Entry free (donations are welcome).

  • Have Your Say On Crime Priorities

    THE South Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership is writing a plan to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour over the next three years. They have undertaken research during which they asked people’s views to help decide priorities for the plan.
    The draft strategy covers has seven priorities:

    .reducing antisocial behaviour
    .improving road safety
    .reducing acquisitive crime
    .reducing drug and alcohol problems
    .managing offenders
    .supporting and engaging communities.

    The partnership now wants to check whether it has got these priotities right and are inviting local people to take part in the debate by completing a short questionnaire at www.southoxon.gov.uk or by asking to be sent a questionnaire – email: communitysafety@southoxon.gov.uk or telephone 01491 823423.
    Comments need to be in by Tuesday, February 19.

  • News Digest For Week Ending January 11

    THAME Town Councillors are unhappy with the plastic, stuck on lettering, used by Prezzo, the restaurant chain that has taken over what was, Jimmy Figgs.
    The council’s Planning committee said that the lettering does not comply with the requirements of the Conservation area.

    THAME Town Council is to buy 25 Silver Medals at a cost of