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Author: Sonja Francis

  • 20/08/13 ‘Swap shop’ group wins national award

    THE environment organisation behind the regular Thame ‘Swap Shops’ has won a national Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice 2013. 

    CAG, or the Community Action Group Project, based in Oxford, is dedicated to reducing waste, and Swap shops held throughout the county are just one way that local people can find a new home for unwanted items that might otherwise go to landfill.

    The 21st Century Thame Partnership is a member of CAG and its Environmental Working Group regularly organises Swap Shops in the town.

    CAG will find out whether its won a gold, silver or bronze award at the awards ceremony at the House of Commons on November 11.

    To find out more about the work of CAG, visit the website: www.cagoxfordshire.org.uk/ and about the Thame Environment group, HERE

    PHOTO: Flash back to a ‘Swap bike’ event at Thame town hall, organised by the Thame Environment Group, with the support of CAG

  • 20/08/13 Thame Show wants your views

     

    AFTER a very disappointing turnout for this year’s Thame Show, due, the organisers believe, to the very hot weather and competition from other events, the views of the public are now being sought.

    The overwhelming impression so far, say the organisers, is that most people want the show to return to September.

    There is a PDF of the questionaire on the Thame show website, but you will need to print if off and either take it to the town hall, or into the show office in North Street. It cannot be completed electronically!

    The show organisers are giving away two family tickets in a prize draw for those who take part in the survey.

    The link is: http://thameshow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Questionnaire-Booklet.pdf

  • 20/08/13 Day Centre goes to market

    THAME and District Day Centre was one of the local community groups that ran a stall at the Thame Market Community Charity Fun Day today, and met the Mayor and the visiting Town Crier.

    The Day Centre’s Manager, Gill Coleman and Centre volunteer, Pat Draper (pictured) gave out leaflets explaining the work of the Centre, and handed out lolly prizes to children taking part in a lucky dip.

    Gill said: “We met lots of other charities and some very happy children – a very worthwhile day!” 

    The Day Centre, an independent local charity, which meets on three days a week at Thame Community Hospital, is open for 50 weeks of the year and provides a day out with a hot meal, entertainments and plentiful refreshments for people from our town and some nearby areas, who are elderly, frail or, perhaps, isolated. All donations received are spent on the services it provides to members. 

    PHOTO: Left to right, the Mayor of Thame, Peter Lambert, the anager of the Day Centre, Gill Coleman, Centre volunteer Pat Draper and the Town Crier, Anthony Church

  • 19/08/13 Opening of Thame Youth Memorial postponed

     

    THE opening date of the Thame Youth Memorial has been postponed to Sunday, September 29, due to material supply delays. 

    The opening event schedule will be published soon.

     

  • 19/08/13 Thame man convicted of driving & drug offences

     

    A 25-year-old Thame man, arrested after driving erratically along Thame Road, Longwick, has pleaded guilty to driving and drug offences. 

    Ian Field of Horton Avenue, Thame, was sentenced at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court last Monday (12/8) for one count of driving while unfit through drugs and a further count of being in possession of class C controlled drug, Ketamine.

    He is to be electronically tagged until November 11, 2013, and was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60 and costs of £135. Field has also been disqualified from driving for 24 months.

    On the morning of his arrest, August 29, 2012, at 7.10am, Field was reported to police having been spotted driving erratically by a police officer on his way to work. When stopped by roads policing officers, he failed a field impairment test and was found with Ketamine in his possession.

    On arrest and testing, his blood was found to contain Ketamine at a concentration of 0.37 milligrams per litre and Norketamine at a concentration of 1.2 milligrams per litre.

    Roads policing officer, PC Kay Dickinson said: “Roads policing officers are trained to deal with drivers who are impaired by drugs and will deal with them robustly. If members of the public suspect anyone of driving while unfit through drink or drugs, they should contact the police immediately.”

    If you don’t want to speak directly to the police you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org. No personal details are taken, information is not traced or recorded and you will not go to court.

  • 19/08/13 Thame ‘foodies’ join Folk at Towersey Festival 2013

     

    ALL the ingredients for a fantastic Towersey Festival are coming together, with only two days to go, and this year, some of the Thame Food Festival regulars, including Sally Dickinson of What’s Cooking and Lotte Duncan of Lotte’s Kitchen, have gathered up some like-minded growers and producers to bring their finest fresh fruit and vegetables, great local cheeses as well as bread, pies, cakes and more to festival-goers camping out at the event. 

    If you’re planning to escape to the unique experience that is the 49th Towersey Festival this week – August 22 to 26, you can really lose yourself in what’s been described as: “another, lovelier world”.

    This year’s event is set to outshine all that have gone before, with the best music to listen to, dance to and sing to; amazing street art to admire and craft fairs to browse; wall to wall children’s activities and village walks and, of course, a wide variety of foods from around the world to tuck into.

    As well as some great produce from a close to home, there’ll be some cracking real ales from The Vale Brewery (who incidentally are about to reveal the winner of the competition to name a special beer being brewed for the Thame Food Festival – watch this space), promising to bring a very special, first ever daily local produce market to the event. 

    To find out more about Towersey Festival check out /www.towerseyfestival.com or call 01629 827 017.

  • 19/08/13 Prostate Cancer awareness group at Thame market

     

    SUPPORT Prostate Cancer awareness by poppiing along to this week’s community stall at Thame Market (opposite the WI produce stall) tomorrow, Tuesday.

    Supporters will be promoting their Dawn til Dusk football tournement and 
    Family Funday for this charity, at Little Milton next Sunday, August 25.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • 19/08/13 Ring lost in Towersey

     

    LOST: Ring with a green stone. Not valuable but of great sentimental value. Possibly lost on the footpath in Thame Road, Towersey.

    Please would you ring Maureen on 01844 269082 if you find it.

  • 19/08/13 FA Cup run ends for Thame Utd

     

    MATCH REPORT – FA Cup – Extra Preliminary Round; Ardley United 4, Thame United 1 – 17/08/13. THERE will be no FA Cup run for Thame United this season after they were defeated 4-1 at Ardley United an Saturday. 

    Although the score flattered the home side, Thame did not play well and it was one of those games they should learn from, and then quickly forget. The game was played in a gusting wind with rain showers.

    The opening exchanges were even, with half chances at both ends. After about 10 minutes Ollie Lynch hit a 25-yard shot which was narrowly wide of the target. The home side took the lead in the 22nd minute when Ryan Brooks beat his defender and ran at goal before hitting a powerful shot which Lee Farrow did well to parry, but Darren Beckett picked up the loose ball and finished from close range. Thame were ‘on the back foot’ for a while as they struggled to penetrate the home side’s midfield. It was 1-0 at the break.

    The visitors started the second half brightly and Lynch forced a good save from the home keeper. After seven minutes, Thame found the back of the Ardley net only to see the ‘goal’ ruled offside. Ardley increased their lead in the 53rd minute when a slick passing move split Thame’s defence and Troy Bryan hit an acute 10-Yard shot, giving Farrow no chance.

    It was 3-0 ten minutes later when Ellis Hercules was harshly judged to have fouled Bryan in the box and Brooks scored from the penalty spot. The home side’s final goal came with five minutes remaining, when a shot hit the crossbar and Beckett picked up the rebound to slot home. Thame’s goal came in the final minute from a Taylor Collins corner which led to a goalmouth scramble and Lynch forced the ball home from close range.

    Thame United: Farrow, I Pykett, P Pykett, Rhodes, Hercules, Hayes, Connelly, Lynch, Dell (Collins), Hodgkins, Goss (Ricketts).

  • 16/08/13 Thame life buried in a time capsule

     

    THE future progress of the Thame Youth Memorial Garden looks set fair after a lucky black cat passed through, just as a time capsule was being buried this morning.

    After several weeks of delay awaiting delivery of paving slabs from India, doing the honours was TYM committee member, Iain Biddle of Thame Round Table, who have been instrumental in raising funds for the scheme.

    On a grey, murky morning, the rain stopped just long enough for two members of the Contractor, Stuart Barr’s team to finish digging the hole ready for the capsule to be interred.

    Among the capsule’s contents are pictures of Thame life taken by local people, including interiors of homes and shops. Everything has been recorded on a hard drive donated by CAAOS, Thame.

    The TYM will be a place for reflection and remembrance for the friends and relatives of the young people of Thame and the surrounding area who’s lives were tragically cut short. It will be officially opened on September 29, by the Mayor of Thame. (Postponed from September 8, due to a delay in delivery of materials).

    Currently the project needs to raise at least another £8500, but a series of fund-raising events coming up in the town should help towards that target:

    Coming up soon is an 80s Disco on September 6, at the Spread Eagle Hotel. Tickets are £17.50 each, and include a buffet. This will be limited to 160 seats, half of which have alrady been sold so pop along to Fore Golf in the Buttermarket, and Wallace’s Home Boutique in Cornmarket, for tickets.

    Enquiries by email for this and any TYM event to tymevents2013@gmail.com.

    Later on in September Sue Boyle will be organising one of her now famous quiz nights at Barley Hill School. 

    Donations can be made by texting ‘TYMM03 £5’    to 70070- the amount though can be whatever anyone likes.