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Author: Sonja Francis

  • 22/12/11…Three ‘Have your say’ meetings with local police team in January

    [MF 22/12/008] This is a Community Message from Thames Valley Police: HAVE YOUR SAY MEETINGS – The following Have Your Say Meetings are being held in your Neighbourhood:

    Sunday 1 January, at the Co-Op Cafe, High Street, Thame, between midday and 2pm.

    Tuesday 10 January, at the Co-Op Cafe, High Street, Thame, between 3:30pm and 5:30pm.

    Thursday 19 January, at the Co-Op Cafe, High Street, Thame, between 2pm and 4pm.

    Please come along, this is your opportunity to speak with your Neighbourhood Officers to discuss any local issues of concern you may have. If you are unable to attend but wish to speak with your Neighbourhood Officers, please call 101.

  • 22/12/11….Could you be a fire fighter?

    Oxfordshire County Council?s firefighters will be at Thame town hall on Saturday, January 7, 2012, to encourage people to consider taking on the role retained firefighter.

    They will be giving out leaflets, explaining what being a firefighter involves and invite people to apply. Officers will also visit local businesses within 1.5 miles of the station to discuss with managers the possibility of releasing staff to become retained firefighters.

    Amyone who would like more information or is unable to attend can visit their local station (Thame’s is in Nelson Street) between 7pm and 9pm on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, or alternatively visit the recruitment pages on the County Council website

  • 22/12/11…….News from Haddenhham – including events!

    ?SNOW SAVIOURS? Do you have a four-wheel-drive (4WD)? If so, can you volunteer to help Bucks County Council?s home carers reach vulnerable people during heavy snowfalls. Or, if you don?t have a 4WD, could you volunteer to help clear paths at the homes of vulnerable people? If you can help please call the County Council’s Localities Team on 01296 383409 or email locality-services@buckscc.gov.uk with your name, where you live, contact details and whether you have a 4WD vehicle or can help with snow clearance.

    MEDICAL CENTRE Haddenham Medical Centre will be closed on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27; for urgent matters please call the out-of-hours service, Buckinghamshire Urgent Care, on 0300 130 3035. The following information about a new appointments system has been received:

    ?We are aware of the problems some patients experience when trying to book an appointment with a doctor. To make this process easier for you we have changed the way in which our appointment system works.
    The aim of our new appointments system will be to reduce the 8 o?clock rush and allow you a greater opportunity to secure an appointment in advance. To achieve this we will release more appointments in advance. However, as a result, we will have no appointments available to directly book on the day.
    From 5th December, the duty doctor for the day will triage all requests from patients for urgent ?on the day? appointments. The doctor will assess the problem by initially telephoning you to determine whether you need to be seen that day, another day or whether the problem might be managed on the phone.

    Non-urgent appointments should be booked in advance at any time of the working day or using our on-line facility. Appointments will be released gradually over each day for the next day or two, or the following week. There will no longer be any advantage in ringing early in the morning for a routine appointment. The benefits of this are that there will be more pre-bookable appointments for all doctors and patients will no longer need to ring early in the morning to try and obtain an appointment.?

    LIBRARY Haddenham Library closes for Christmas at 1pm on Christmas Eve and will re-open on Thursday 29 at 10am.

    RUBBISH & RECYCLING. Please note that there will be no rubbish collections in Haddenham on December 27th and paper, cans and plastics is postponed until Wednesday 4th January 4. Collections are back to normal the following week and glass will be collected as scheduled on Tuesday, 10th January, along with more paper, cans and plastics.

    What’s On
    Fri 23rd Mummers Haddenham Mummers will perform their traditional play at various pubs etc in Haddenham. They will be starting opposite Clerkenwell Cottages at 7.30pm and will then visit each of Haddenham?s pubs and restaurants in turn: 7.45pm King’s Head, High Street; 8.20pm Rose and Thistle, Church End; 8.40pm Red Lion, Church End; 9.15pm Peking Rendezvous, High Street; 9.50pm House of Spice, Fort End; 10.25pm Green Dragon, Church End; 10.45pm Rising Sun, Tacks Lane/Thame Rd.

    Sat 24th Christmas Eve Lunch You are invited to enjoy the annual Christmas Eve soup lunch on Saturday (12noon-2pm) at the Baptist Schoolroom, Stockwell. You can choose from a selection of delicious home-made soups, served with fresh local bread, and in return you are asked for a donation to Christian Aid to provide essentials for life for the world?s poorest people.

    Sat 24th Christmas Eve Services St Mary?s Church, Haddenham, has a Crib Service at 3pm and the Baptist Church has an Interactive Crib Service at 3.30pm. Two of the Haddenham Benefice churches have carol services at 7pm: St Nicholas, Cuddington, and St Nicholas, Kingsey; and St Michael?s, Aston Sandford, has a carol service with Holy Communion at 6.30pm. Later in the evening, St Mary?s Church has a Midnight Communion Service at 11pm, and the Church of the Good Shepherd has carols at 10.30pm carols followed by Midnight Mass at 11pm.

    Sun 25th Christmas Day Services St Mary?s Church, Haddenham, 10am; St Nicholas, Cuddington, 10am; St Nicholas, Kingsey, Holy Communion 9.15am; the Church of the Good Shepherd has a Mass for Christmas Day at 9.30am, and the Baptist Church and Methodist Church have family services at 9.30am.

  • 22/12/11….Thame beat Oxford City in re-arranged match

    Oxford City Nomads 0, Thame United 1(MATCH REPORT – Contributed): 21/12/11 – Oxfordshire Senior Cup 3rd round: THAME were due to play this 3rd round Oxfordshire Senior Cup tie away but, due to a waterlogged pitch, the game was switched at short notice from Oxford to The ASM Stadium. The club emailed its database and a crowd of 53 saw the game, most of whom had changed their plans. They were not disappointed as it was an entertaining game between two evenly matched teams playing fast attractive football.

    Thame started well and forced four successive corners in the first few minutes. Nomads however soon recovered to put Thame ?on the back foot? for much of the half. On 25 minutes Nomads had a good chance when, with the Thame defence appealing for offside, the linesman kept his flag down allowing two strikers through on goal. Thame keeper Milan Barisic however came out to meet the threat and made a fine save with his legs. Ten minutes later, another striker was in a 1 to 1 with Barisic who dived his feet, bringing him down. A penalty was awarded and Barisic was shown a yellow card. The penalty kick was however too close to the keeper, allowing him to make a good save. Although the visitors were perhaps ?ahead on points,? the game was goalless at half time.

    Thame came out fired up for the second half and immediately put the visitor?s goal under pressure. Eight minutes after the restart, United were awarded a free kick 25-yards from goal which Alex Stewart took, hitting a superb shot and forcing an excellent save from the Nomads keeper. Dan West took the resultant corner which the keeper went to collect but dropped the ball; Stewart won the ensuing scramble to knock the ball home. Although Nomads tried to come back, United defended well and, apart from a header grazing the post, their chances were few. Thame were playing well, and Luke Ricketts, Lewis Cordice, Stewart and Ben Connelly all went close. The final few minutes were nerve racking but Thame held out, and will be in the 4th round draw.

    Thame United: Barisic, Barr, Hall, Meredith, N Rhodes, Hayes, Connelly, D West, Stewart, Cordice, Ricketts (Little).

  • 21/12/11…Thanks to the people of Thame for Oxfam Bore hole appeal

    THE manager of the Oxfam Book Shop in Thame has thanked local people for helping exceed the amount collected by the shop for its Bore Hole water appeal.

    Dick Jennens told ThameNews.Net: “We collected the full amount of

  • 21/12/11…Appeal following theft of steel in South Oxfordshire

    HAVE you seen this van around in South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse area? A white transit van, registration number 07W X265

    [M 20/12/019] This is a Community Message from Thames Valley Police: THEFT OF STEEL – On Monday 19th December at approx: 17:00hrs steel plates were stolen from a business premises in Park Road, Faringdon. A white transit van, registration number 07W X265 was seen entering the site containing male occupants. This vehicle and occupants has been seen previously acting suspiciously in other areas of South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse.

    If you see this vehicle or have any information in relation to this message please, call the police on the new national single non-emergency telephone number 101 and state you are responding to a Ringmaster message.

    Alternatively if you have information but wish to remain anonymous, please call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

    Message Ends.

  • 21/12/11…Racketball Championships to be held in Thame

    THE South Regional Racketball Closed Championships 2012 will be held on 3rd & 4th March at Racquets Fitness Centre, Thame.

    The entry fee is

  • 20/12/11….Thame Day Centre ‘optimistic’ about its future

    THE Day Centre in Thame which has been facing an uncertain future for the past few months, celebrated Christmas in style today, with special guest, the Mayor of Thame, David Bretherton and his wife Margaret.

    Friends, supporters, centre staff and volunteers put their worries behind them today when they celebrated Christmas together at The Oxfordshire, near Thame.

    Due mainly to the hard work of the Centre’s manager, Gillian Coleman, who has lead fund-raising throughout the year organising quizzes, cake sales and the like, the 80+ guests were able to enjoy a top class, three-course Christmas dinner and entertainment provided by the Banjovi Revival Band.

    Brenda Prosser, Chair of the Thame and District Day Centre Trustees, Welcomed the Mayor and his Mayoress before thanking Gill Coleman, the volunteers and drivers who transport members from outlying villages and the town, for offering their time.

    “Thame is a caring town,” she said, “and more and more we have come to rely on it for supporting us. The ‘Friends’ of the day centre now find ourselves in between two bureaucratic organisations, the Bucks Hospital Trust PCT and Oxfordshire County Council. For the past 25 years, we have relied on grants for our survival but these days we have to work in a different way, seeking out funding and negotiating for it.

    “At the moment, we are anxiously waiting to hear what we will be getting next year in the way of funds but I am optimistic. We are all in this together and I remain hopeful that one way or another the Thame & District Day Centre will continue to flourish.”

    NB to read about the history of the Day Centre’s fight for survival over the last two or three years, click here: https://www.thame.net/results.asp?search=Day+Centre&goButton=go

  • 19/12/11…Sainsbury’s Community centre inadequate says action group

    THE following letter has been sent to Ann Ducker, the Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council, members of the Thame group, CMAG – Cattle Market Action Group:

    CMAG
    thamecmag@yahoo.co.uk
    www.thamecmag.co.uk

    13.12.2011
    Dear Ann, Recently Sainsbury?s has sent a leaflet, marked PUBLIC CONSULTATION, to residents, businesses and community groups of Thame and surrounding villages entitled ?A new Sainsbury?s for Thame?.At least 14,500 of these leaflets have been distributed.

    The plans shown on this leaflet include a community building; we are writing to tell you that we are concerned that the needs of the community have not been accurately represented on this plan.

    The Cattle Market Action Group (CMAG) working group met with Sainsbury?s consultants GKA and let them know that the proposed community building was too inflexible and far smaller than is needed by our current member groups. Additionally, we believe that there is insufficient parking available to the centre.

    CMAG has campaigned for a community building of 1200 sq. m floor space on two floors, which can be viewed on our website www.thamecmag.co.uk. This Sainsbury?s building is approximately329 sq m gross (212 sq m for a hall and 117 sq m for toilets/kitchen etc), which is smaller than either Chinnor or Haddenham village halls.

    We strongly believe that a community building on the cattle market site will serve as a hub for the town and surrounding villages; it also complies with the SODC Core Strategy, which states that the Cattle Market should be redeveloped for mixed use. The building currently proposed by Sainsbury?s, could not achieve this goal, particularly as we are expecting 800 new residences in the town.

    We note that Sainsbury?s are aiming to submit a planning application in the near future. At that time the discussion will be in the domain of the wider community and will involve other relevant parties. We look forward to bringing discussions forward at that time.

    Best wishes

    Dr. Helena Richards, CMAG secretary

    cc.Judith Nimmo-Smith
    Angie Patterson
    Matt Prosser
    David Dodds
    David Bretherton
    Ann Midwinter
    Mike Welply
    Helen Stewart
    https://www.thame.net

  • 19/12/11….Sainsbury’s plans for Thame cattlemarket site

    THE Consultants acting for Sainsburys recently invited local people to see their latest plans for a proposed superstore on the Cattlemarket site in North Street, Thame.

    Sainsbury?s now says that it has issued a brochure on its plans to over 14,500 households in Thame and the surrounding area and that nearly two thousand households and businesses responded to an earlier consultation on the principle of the scheme.

    The latest plans, say Sainsbury’s, are a response to comments received and a planning application is now being submitted to the District Council.

    The feedback from the consultation earlier this year included a wide range of views and issues including; the need for community uses, the need for additional car parking, traffic, the character of Thame and the relationship with the town centre.

    (See Letter To The Editor for a response to the latest plans from CMAG the Cattle Market Action Group) and http://sainsburys-thame.co.uk/index.html for full details of Sainsbury’s proposals.

    http://sainsburys-thame.co.uk/index.html