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SO many quiz teams wanted to take part in the Mayor of Thame’s charity quiz, that the venue had to be changed from the town hall to Barley Hill school!

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NEW works and refurbishments being carried out at Crendon Industrial Park are bringing new opportunities for tenants of industrial properties.

The owners of the estate are in the process of, or have completed works in respect of nos. 1, 5 and 12 Field End and no. 13 Meadow View, to offer a range of units from 3,166 to 6,800 sq. ft.

The Office contents for each individual unit are of differing sizes, and the detail can be found on the website www.fieldscommercial.co.uk

Also available are some Design-and-Build opportunities for Industrial Units of approximately 8-10,000 sq. ft. and 30,000 sq. ft.

Full details are available from Fields.

The last two brand-new industrial units of 4,200 and 4,800 sq. ft. are now available with immediate vacant possession. These can also be purchased as well as leased.

Please see: www.fieldscommercial.co.uk

THURSDAY 26th January – Jan Talk; The Future of Farming, at the Rose and Thistle in Haddenham on at 8pm. People often feel that highly productive and efficient farming doesn?t leave allot of space for the friendly wildlife that we fondly associate with the countryside. It takes a complex and type of farm management to combine both aspects of good countryside custodianship. But this has been achieved locally on the 5700-acre Waddesdon Estate.

Alistair Brookes the farm manager at Waddesdon will explain how the estate combines modern productive farming with a high level of wildlife conservation. Making conservation part of normal farming practice helps to improve and extend wildlife habitats, improve opportunities for countryside enjoyment and create new wildlife habitats and landscape features.

Tuesday 31st January. Support Aylesbury Vale?s Environment (SAVE) is pleased to invite you to a free Climate Reality Presentation at the Oculus, Aylesbury, from 6.30pm.

Climate change is not one person?s fault for the car they drive, the lights they turn on, or the food they eat. The climate crisis is our problem. Real solutions, systemic solutions, innovative solutions, can only come when we address it together. That?s what The Climate Reality Project will do. Without doubt. Without delay. And with your help.

If you are interested in learning more about the science of climate change, discovering the truth and taking meaningful steps to bring about change please come along to the Climate Reality Project presentation ? at the Oculus, AVDC offices at Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8FF. Light refreshments will be provided. To book your place please email: save_environment1@yahoo.co.uk

Tuesday 21st Feb 8pm Haddenham in Transition business meeting, Rose & Thistle

Saturday 3rd March Haddenham in Transition strategy meeting, venue TBC. Come and help us plan our projects for the next few years!

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MARKET towns have been challenged to ‘big up’ their achievements as Britain?s top award for town community projects opens for entries.


Action for Market Towns, the national charity representing market and small towns across the UK, has today launched its 2012 Award Scheme with a challenge to towns and villages to be “bold, proud, and loud” about what they have achieved.

The 2012 Action for Market Towns National Awards have become a recognised quality mark for best practice. At a critical time for town centres and high streets, the awards offer recognition for the innovation and creative ideas which many small towns are using to survive and to thrive – ideas which could be implemented to help the recovery of other towns, villages and high streets.

2012 sees the Award scheme – now in its 8th year – extended to cover Scotland for the first time.

Chris Wade, Chief Executive of Action for Market Towns, said:

?We are really excited to launch the 2012 Action for Market Towns Awards, which for the first time cover the whole of Britain. Last year’s record entries showed that austere times can bring out the best amongst the self-reliant communities and businesses in Britain’s small towns. We look forward to receiving even more imaginative and sustainable entries this year.?

Judges will rate entries in categories including Environment and Culture, Social and Community, Business and Economy, and Partnership and Strategic Working.

Previous Award winners range from projects improving towns’ physical environment to the creation of business and community hubs, from a social enterprise helping disabled people into employment to a project to bring high-speed wi-fi to a small town.

Sponsored by CCLA and The Big Lottery Fund, the Awards give towns and villages an invaluable opportunity for national recognition and coverage of their achievements and their ideas

Full details including entry criteria and instructions are available at http://towns.org.uk/market-town-awards/market-town-awards-2012/

THE final opportunity for local people to have their say on South Oxfordshire?s Core Strategy, which includes how Thame will develop in the next few years, is now close.

The inspector appointed to examine the strategy has published his conclusions on changes to the strategy and these are available to view at: LINK

The council is now producing a list of the changes along with a version of the Core Strategy showing the changes. This will be advertised from February 3, to March 16, 2012, at LINK Copies will also be available to view at South Oxfordshire District Council’s offices, libraries and one-stop shops to enable local residents and other interested parties to have their say.

This follows the draft conclusions note that the inspector published on November 30, 2011, following the hearings held earlier in that month, and the additional sustainability appraisal work carried out in December by the council on the inspector’s instruction, to test some matters raised in his conclusions.

This is expected to be the final opportunity for local people to give their views to the inspector on the Core Strategy before his final report is published. All comments received will be passed to the inspector for his consideration.

It is estimated that the Core Strategy will be adopted in early May 2012. However, if the Inspector decides to arrange one or more additional hearing sessions to allow further discussion on any matters raised, this may result in a slight delay to the adoption date.

[M 20/01/036] THIS is a Community Message from Thames Valley Police: Arrests made for vehicle crime – On Thursday, January 19, during the early hours of the morning, patrolling officers spotted a suspicious vehicle parked between two lorries on the A418 near to the M40, J8a services. (Wheatley)

Upon investigation they found a 4 x 4 vehicle containing fuel siphoning equipment and noticed that both fuel tanks on the lorries had been tampered with. The 4 x 4 was unattended and persons had made off into undergrowth, this was followed by another vehicle making off from an adjacent lay-by.

The vehicle was traced to a nearby location where two males were arrested for offences, including theft of a motor vehicle, theft of number plates and two incidents of vehicle interference. The males have been interviewed and bailed pending further enquiries.

Message Ends.

Mon 23rd HADDENHAM PARISH COUNCIL An application has been made to AVDC to demolish existing outbuildings at the Red Lion pub, Church End, and to build 3 dwellings. Plans can be seen at the parish office, which is open on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and they will be discussed at January?s Planning committee meeting on Monday (23) at 7.30pm in the Walter Rose Room.

Events

Sat 21st Line Dance. The Pondarosa Line Dance group has its next social dance evening on Saturday (8-11pm) in the Village Hall. Entry is

FOR any of you that have kindly said that you would like to make a money donation on-line to Alfie Hacket’s Fundraiser, the best way to do it is via the following link: LINK

On the left handside under the photo is a Donate button which goes via paypal. We’re unable to set up a Just Giving page as this is a one off event and cannot be registered as a charity at present. Thanks for your support.

Alfie’s Friends and family

LINK here to read why Alfie needs your support.

A signed copy of a book by the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been discovered in a box of donated books at the Oxfam Book Shop in Thame.

The shop’s Manager, Dick Jennens, takes up the the story: “In 1903 Arthur Conan Doyle?s works were published as a 13 volume, limited edition of 1000 copies, with one of them, ?White Company? issued as a signed copy. It was one of these that we found, to our astonishment, in a box of donated books, containing nine volumes of the set.”

The set was published by Smith Elder & Co, in 1903 and bound in red cloth. The edition found by Dick and his staff is number 95.

The signed copy of ?White Company? is offered for sale at

FROM the Towersey Village news letter: TOWERSEY Morris, have just sent off two cheques for