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Author: Sonja Francis

  • 14/07/12…Possible parcels scam targets vulnerable people in Thame

    POSSIBLE Scam – Unsolicited Parcels – Oxfordshire Trading Standards have received two calls from vulnerable adults living in Thame who have recently received expensive goods through the post that they have not ordered from a well-known mail order company.

    On one occasion, the consumer received a telephone call from an unknown caller shortly after receiving the parcel to arrange for collection of the parcel from the consumer?s home. The consumer had not contacted anyone about the parcel ? this was an unsolicited call.

    Soon afterwards a tall black male wearing a yellow hi-viz jacket arrived at the consumer?s home and collected the parcel, no receipt was provided.

    Both consumers are now being pursued by the mail order company for payment of the items.

    We are asking residents living in the South Oxfordshire or Vale of White Horse area who experience this kind of behaviour to telephone Thames Valley Police on 101 and quote URN 706 of 13/07/12.

    Free Advice about Consumer Rights is available by telephoning the Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline: 08454 04 05 06

    Further information to help a consumer be ?scam aware? is available via the Oxfordshire County Council website at:

    http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/scams

    Message sent by:
    Carol Rudd (Police, NHW & Community Messaging Co-ordinator, South Oxon & Vale LPA)

  • 13/07/12….FLASH FLOODING Warning – South Oxfordshire

    WEATHER warning for Friday/Saturday – possible flash flooding- The MET Office haa warned that very heavy localised downpours are expected on Friday afternoon/evening into Saturday morning which may lead to flooding.

    Those whose properties are on a hill or whose driveway slopes down to their house should be especially aware.

    Residents can divert surface water run off by using sandbags or any type of plastic bag or pillow case filled with sand or soil, piled up around doorways.

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  • 11/07/12…First pre-season friendly for Thame United

    THAME United, who returned for pre-season training two weeks ago, have their first pre-season friendly this coming Tuesday (17 July) at the ASM Stadium against local rivals Chinnor (7:30pm kick off). The game will give manager Mark West the opportunity to assess new players as United look to build on their mid-table finish in the Hellenic Premier League last season. United will then face home matches against Hook Norton (21st July, 3pm kick off), Slough Town (28th July, 3pm kick off) and Oxford United (02 August, 7:30pm kick off).

    The Hellenic Premier League season is due to start on Tuesday 7th August, in order to give teams a competitive game before the extra preliminary round of the FA Cup on Saturday 11th August. The draw for the cup has already been made with United drawn at home against Premier League new boys, Newbury. The winners will then face Southern League side North Leigh, a team that defeated United 2-1 in the Oxfordshire Senior Cup semi-final last season. In the FA Vase, United have been given a home tie against Clanfield 85.

  • 11/07/12….Weather too wet for Thame’s ducks – again!

    IN a summer which has been even more British than usual, an early casualty of the usually bad weather was the Thame and District Round Table annual duck race. Originally scheduled for the Thame Carnival weekend in June, extensive flooding of the course forced a postponement until this weekend.

    Unbelievably though, the wettest June on record has given way to an equally poor start to July and with an official flood alert in force for the River Thame this week, the Table have had no choice but to push the date back once again, to 9th September. This is the last date the race can take place this year, before Thame’s resident population of 2,500 rubber ducks flies south for the winter.

    Iain Biddle, Chairman of Thame and District Round Table, said: “We really can’t believe this, but we hope that by abandoning summer entirely and going for a date in Autumn, the weather and the water levels will be in a state where the Town can enjoy the race in safety.”

  • 10/0712…..IMPORTANT NOTICE – ThameNews.Net on holiday

    AS from today, ThameNews.Net will be taking a short break until July 17th.

    Until then news will only be spasmodically appearing on the website as and when the availability of internet access abroad will allow.

    Until then, please email: editor@thamenews.net or call: 07792487 with any vital or important news that needs sharing with the community. All news updated during the break will appear on the main news page here.

    Thank you in advance for your forbearance!

  • 10/07/12 – 14/07/12…Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard

    THAME Players presenst: Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard. From Tuesday 10th July to Saturday 14th July at 7.45pm at the Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame.

    ?This is a brilliant, brilliant play. A play of ideas, of consummate theatricality, of sophisticated entertainment and of heartache fro time never to be regained.? Sunday Times

    Tom Stoppard?s hilarious and thought provoking play takes us backwards and forwards between the 19th century and the present day as Hannah Jarvis and Bernard Nightingale try to uncover the truth behind the scandal that took place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park, a stately home in Derbyshire.

    The play, directed by Tim Shepherd, runs from Tuesday 10th July to Saturday 14th July. Tickets cost

  • 08/07/12…Thame pupils drumming up excitement for The Peacemakers

    LORD Williams?s Festival Chorus will be the first amateur choir to perform Karl Jenkins? new work, The Peacemakers at their summer concert in Thame on Saturday (July 14) and pupils from Lord Williams?s School will be drumming up the excitement.

    The choir is invariably amongst the first to perform Karl?s new compositions, as their musical director, John Gibbons works closely with the composer. For this performance, the Ealing Symphony Orchestra is being joined by the exciting multi-percussionist Zands Duggan, who played the work with Karl at its Welsh premiere in May. Choir chair, Claire Humphries, said: “Zands has been coaching pupils at Lord Williams?s School to play the percussion parts on Saturday, so tickets for the event are selling fast – helped by the fact that the CD of The Peacemakers went into the Classical Charts at number one and is still at the top after 14 weeks. It just shows how exciting Karl Jenkins? music is.”

    The soprano part will be sung by the sublime Russian singer, Anna Gorbachyova, who has now made several guest appearances with the choir to great acclaim. Also on the programme will be Sammartini?s Recorder concerto in F, played by recorder virtuoso Alison Baldwin, and Warlock?s popular Capriol Suite for Strings.

    The concert will take place at 7.30pm at Thame Leisure Centre. Tickets cost

  • 06/07/12…..What a spectacle ! Mayor rewards Jubilee window winner

    THE Mayor of Thame, Nigel Champken Woods, today presented a Certificate to the shop with the best Jubilee window display.

    And the winner is…..Robert Stanley Opticians in the High Street! Their display of pictures of Her Majesty The Queen throughout the span of her reign – appropriately wearing specs in many of them – attracted a lot of attention throughout the run up to the jubilee weekend and the following week. The town’s guests from Montesson, Thame’s twin town, were seen admiring the display and taking pictures of it with their mobile phones when they came over the weekend before the Bank holiday. The magnificent crown in the window of the Cottage Bakery too attracted a lot of attention and admiration.

    Nigel himself was in no doubt of the stand-out winner. As he walked round the town choosing the winner with Sonja Francis, Chair of Thame4Business who jointly sponsored the competition with the council, he commented: “I think Robert Stanley?s is a deserved winner because someone had put a lot of thought into the window display and not just filled the window with red white and blue, which is great in itself but just a bit more flair went into this one.

    “The display took the Queen through all seven decades of her reign from the 50?s to the present day. It was subtle and clever. I think a little bit of licence was used on the photo of HRH and her two corgis with crowns on! Photo-shop perhaps!”

    PHOTO: The Mayor of Thame, Nigel Champken Woods presents the winner’s certificate to Lesley Thatcher, Manager of Robert Stanley Opticians.

  • 06/07/12….Thame club is ‘Bowled over’ by Mayor’s visit

    STUDENTS from Lord Williams’s school, Thame, today met the Mayor of Thame, and ex BBC Weatherman, Bill Giles MBE, during a bowling session as part of their GCSE Sport curriculum.

    Bill, who lives in Chinnor, is an avid player and ambassador for the sport of bowls and is currently the club’s Chairman. The Mayor of Thame, Nigel Champken Woods, was there to present the club with a cheque for

  • 06/07/12….A summers’ Eve with rising young, Thame flautist

    A TALENTED young flautist from Thame will be holding a recital tomorrow (Saturday), to help pay for her post graduate studies at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music.

    Ex Lord Williams’s pupil, Suzanna Watson, already has several accolades behind her, including the Topwind flute prize won while she was studying at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has played with many major orchestras and ensembles and has recently been awarded a place on the Master of Arts course at the Royal Academy, starting in September 2012.

    Suzannah’s recital, A Summer’ Evening Flute Recital, is at St Mary’s Church, Thame, starting at 7.30pm. Tickets cost