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  • Thame Post Office to close for refurbishment

    THE Thame Post Office counter, situated at the rear of Martins, at 3 High Street, will be closed for four days while it undergoes extensive refurbishment as part of a three-year investment and support programme by Royal Mail.

    A statement by the post office said: “The new style branch will aim to create a more modern and convenient retail experience for customers and will include longer opening hours.”

    What this will this mean for customers

    * a newly refurbished branch providing a more open
       plan environment
    * the same products and services
    * longer opening hours
    * selected Post Office services will also be available at the retail counter outside main counter times

    The Post Office will be closed for refurbishment from Monday, September 16, at 5.30pm and will reopen on Friday, September 20, at 1pm.

    Alternative Post Office branches in the area are:

    Chinnor Post Office
    Keens Lane
    Chinnor

    Long Crendon Post Office
    5 The Square
    Long Crendon
    HP18 9AA

    Haddenham Post Office
    167 Church Way
    Haddenham

    and

    Tiddington Post Office
    Village Hall
    Oxford Road
    OX9 2LH

    PHOTO: Courtesy of The Local Data Company

  • First pint of Thame winning brew poured at beer festival

    THE winner of the Thame ‘name that beer’ competition had the honour of pouring the very first pint of the brew he christened ‘Thame’in of the brew’, at The Vale Brewery’s open day.

    Jim Crews, a real ale fan from Shabbington near Thame, came up with his original suggestion in response to a competition organised by The Vale Brewery Company in Brill, to name its beer of the month for September, a brew that will also be on tap at this year’s Thame Food Festival. 

    Jim proudly poured the first pint at the Vale Brewery Open Day on Saturday, September 7, attended by the Mayor or Thame, Peter Lambert, who runs the Thame Micro brewery at The Cross Keys pub in Thame.

    PHOTO: Jim (far right) is pictured receiving a special certificate, pump badge and a voucher for a polypin of beer.

    Photo shows L-R: Ian Mackey, Vale Brewery Company General Manager, Frazer Sutherland from The Thatch and The James Figg pubs in Thame, Cllr Peter Lambert, The Mayor of Thame and Jim Crews, champion beer namer!

  • Suspicious vehicle alert – Croft Road, Thame

    Thames Valley Police Alert
    Thames Valley Police Alert

    SUSPICIOUS white Ford Van spotted in Croft Road, Thame, 9.14 am this morning (10/09). Two male occupants. 

    Part vehicle reg. P537,2

    Please report any sightings to police on 101, quote URN number 265

  • Art exhibition: ‘Eating Our Words’ at Thame cafe

    A GROUP of artists from Thame will be exhibiting their latest works on the theme of food, at a Thame cafe, and the town Mayor will be helping them to launch ‘Eating Our Words’ to coincide with the Thame Food Festival.

    The Mayor of Thame, Clllr Peter Lambert will open the exhibition by Sparksartists upstairs in Time Out Café, 12 High Street, Thame, at 3pm on September 25, during a private viewing to invited guests.

    The exhibition will be open to the public and will run from Saturday, September 21, to Saturday, October 5, during the normal café opening hours (closed Sundays).

    Sparksartists formed as a registered charity in 2001 with a common commitment to otheir work as individual visual artists but also with a desire to collaborate and share ideas and experiences. They work in a range of media from Printmakers and Painters to Textile Artists and meet regularly in Thame. 

    They have been running The Big Draw an international scheme to encourage people to draw, in Thame every year since 2007, for which they won a ‘drawing inspiration’ prize.

    Maryl Bird, one of the Sparksartists, explained: “Some of the work exhibited will be for sale, and along with selling work, we hope to raise the profile of Sparksartists within the local community.”

  • Thame ‘annililates’ Carterton qualifier

    IT was payback time on Saturday (07/09) when Thame Utd recorded their highest scoring home win at the ASM Stadium by defeating Carterton 8-0 in an FA Vase qualifier.

    Back in August 2006, Carterton thrashed Thame United 6-0 in a Hellenic Premier League match. Since then, the fortunes of the two clubs have changed and Carterton are currently in the lower reaches of Hellenic League Division One, West. A win was expected, but you can often throw the form book away when it comes to cup matches. This match however was no giant killing: it was more like an annihilation, with United scoring six goals in the first half.

    The game saw the return of Luke Ricketts to the starting line up, whilst Lynton Goss played on the right wing, allowing Ben Connelly to move into midfield. The returning Lewis Cordice was also in the line up whist new signing, Simon Lynn, was on the bench, and came on in the second half.

    After the initial exchanges, Thame controlled the game and went ahead in the 10th minute when Ellis Hercules played a through ball to Cordice who ran at goal, skilfully dribbled round the on-coming Keeper, and tapped the ball into an open goal. On 22 minutes Ricketts hit a long ball to Taylor Collins who intelligently lobbed the ball into the goal over the keepers head from 25-yards. The score was 3-0 two minutes later when Collins went for goal from a free kick, and the keeper parried the shot to Cordice who finished well from five yards. Thame’s spectacular forth goal, which was the best of the match, and will be a strong contender for goal of the season, was scored by full back, Ian Pykett, with a blistering 35-yard shot which went in off the crossbar. 

    Cordice completed his hat trick from an acute angle in the 31st minute. Ten minutes later Matt Willett provided a perfect cross to Ben Connelly who confidently headed the ball home from eight yards.

    A few minutes into the second half, Faulkner and Lynn came on to replace Hercules and Goss. Faulkner added his name to the growing list of scorers in the 53rd minute when he met a Cordice cross with a thundering 10-yard shot into the roof of the net. A few minutes later Carterton went down to 10 men when Jacob Dayol was dismissed for dissent. Thame’s final goal came with 15 minutes remaining when a Faulkner header hit the post and Rickets collected the rebound to fire home.

    Thame will meet stiffer opposition in the next round when they travel to Woking-based Westfield FC on September 21. Their opponents play in the Combined Counties Premier division and have won their last five games, one of them an FA Cup game against Tuesday’s victors at the ASM Stadium, Shrivenham.

    Thame United: Farrow, Willett, I Pykett, Hercules (Lynn), Rhodes, Goss (Faulkner), Connelly, Lynch, Collins (Sykes), Cordice, Ricketts.

    United travel to Newbury next Saturday (14/09)and the reserves begin their campaign with a home game against Rayners Lane (3pm kick off). The next first team match at the ASM Stadium is on Tuesday, September 17, when Oxford City Nomads are the visitors (7.45pm kick off).

    SOURCE: Contributed by Bob Dixon
    PHOTO: Thame Utd’s Manager, Mark West

  • Thame ‘Silver Surfers’ turn gamers!

    MEMBERS of the Thame and District Day Centre are learning about the wonders of the world wide web and gaming – thanks to donations and gifts from Thame organisations and residents.

    The funds they have been given have enabled the centre to buy a laptop and a projector, a projector screen, a Wii console and DVD games.

    The first of the games, demonstrated by Gill Coleman, the centre manager, was Blockbusters. Gill said: “We will have so much fun and it is all so interactive, everyone can join in.”

    “We thought that perhaps our 80 to 90-year-olds would like to actually see what is meant by www,” she explained, after giving some of the day centre members a demonstration of what could be accessed on the web, including search engines.

    “Members were fascinated by images – Frank Sinatra and Russell Watson singing on YouTube, for example, were a great hit! Then we showed them our own Facebook page, and demonstrated how ebay and Amazon work. I think there’ll be a new band of silver surfers in Thame. A massive thank you to everyone who has made this possible.”

    Gill concluded: “Our members took a great deal of interest and thanked us for taking the time to explain the wonders of the World Wild Web. It was a very satisfying day.”

    PHOTO: Gill Coleman, by Photographer, Nick White

  • Cromwell Avenue resident’s appeal over speeding

     

    DEAR Editor/LPRA/TV Police/MP John Howell//Thame News/Thame Mayor, As a resident of Lea Park and a member of LPRA I would like you to sort something out NOW. Cromwell Avenue makes up about 5% of the total residents.

    Cromwell is the only link road.

    All the other ones are dead ends.

    Why then do we get cars and motor bike coming past at 40/50 MPH?

    If I drove at that speed down some of their roads there would be hell to pay.

    There are many of us at this end that are very frustrated about the situation.

    Some years ago I got traffic down here and once people see them they tell each other.

    Traffic basically said that until there was a “fatality” nothing could be done.

    In High Wycombe, a road that was a “rat run” the residents paid for speed humps, (Big ones)

    The traffic now goes round the long way which in fact is faster.

    What about: 20 mph limit. Make Cromwell Avenue one way with pinch points. Double yellow lines all the way down on just one side but staggered so it slows traffic. More radar van traps. They can park up in many places. How about the locals being trained to use hand held radar guns? The police can at least send out warnings.

    Looking forward to a positive reply.
    M.Smith
    Cromwell Avenue
    Thame

    PHOTO: Sunset over Cromwell Avenue, Thame

  • 29/09/13 Official opening of the Thame Youth Memorial –

     

    THAME Youth Memorial – Official Opening by the Mayor of Thame; ceremony will commence at 12pm and refreshments will be served from 1pm in Christchurch, Upper High Street, Thame.

     

     

  • Early union activists and Medieval music & poetry

    ALL these coming to The Players Theatre in Thame, throughout September. So support your local theatre and make a date for these great shows.  

    An Inspector Calls at The Players Theatre, Thame

    Tuesday 10th – Saturday 14th September 7.45pm
    AN Inspector Calls was written by J.B.Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK. It is one of Priestley’s best known works for the stage and considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. 

    The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, “an industrial city in the north Midlands”. The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman’s exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death.
    Tickets £9 and £8 concessions

    We Will be Free! at The Players Theatre, Thame

    Sunday 22nd September 7.45pm
    WE WILL BE FREE! written by Neil Gore is set in 1834, and follows the extraordinary story of George and Betsy Loveless. He was a Methodist minister and the leader of the six Dorset farm labourers who were tried, convicted and condemned to harsh transportation by an oppressive Government for having the temerity to swear a secret oath and form a secret union to fight against a succession of wage cuts inflicted by the local landowner.
    Tickets £10 and £9 concessions

    Airs And Graces

    Sunday 29th September 7.45 pm
    THE Players Theatre welcomes the return of Farandol, a group of highly accomplished musicians. Their latest performance called Airs and Graces combines music, poetry and visual art. It is an exploration of a sumptuous mediaeval manuscript known to art history as ‘Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry’.

    The show features Farandol playing their own brand of medieval music on authentic instruments and David Cooke, who will be narrating and showing slides.
    Tickets £9 & £8 (Concessions less £1). 

    Booking: tickets online from www.thameplayers.co.uk (10% booking fee applies) or Tickets Anywhere, Greyhound Walk, Thame 01844 217228

  • 16/09/13 French conversation classes in Thame cafe

     

    THAME French Conversation Classes – New term begins: Time Out cafe, Thame – 2.30pm.

    Contact sara.hartman@btconnect.com for more information.

    IMAGE: Courtesy of: www.multilanguageexpert.com