CHINNOR RFC Half Term Rugby Camp – 21st & 22nd February;
THE camp is a fun and safe environment aimed for either club players wanting to learn new skills or new players wanting an introduction to rugby. Players need to be aged 5-12 yrs and will be grouped accordingly.
Packed lunch, drinks, warm clothes and change of/wet weather clothes will be required.
Cost: 1 day
CHINNOR RFC Half Term Rugby Camp – 21st & 22nd February;
THE camp is a fun and safe environment aimed for either club players wanting to learn new skills or new players wanting an introduction to rugby. Players need to be aged 5-12 yrs and will be grouped accordingly.
Packed lunch, drinks, warm clothes and change of/wet weather clothes will be required.
Cost: 1 day
THE road has now re-opened both ways at the junction of the A4129 Kingsey Road in Thame with the B4012, following an earlier Road Traffic Incident.
A car left the road at about 8.15 am this morning, and ended up on its side in a hedge. The one occupant was trapped for a while, but was able to walk to a waiting ambulance, and has only minor injuries.
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OXFORDSHIRE County Council has launched its Big Society Fund, and is inviting local community groups to take advantage and make a claim.
The authority has set up a
THE next in a the series of 2011 TALKS AT THAME MUSEUM, will be on Thursday, March 10, at 7.30pm, entitled ‘Being a Boy in the Blitz’ – some personal reminiscences.
Len Chapman tells us what life was like growing up in the East End of London during the war. There will also be a few WW2 artefacts on display to accompany the talk.
Tickets:
MARKET town businesses looking to promote themselves further are being encouraged to go along to a special networking event next month, to discover new ways to reach new customers, how work with other local businesses and how to play a bigger role in helping to boost their local economy.
The focus of the event will be to help businesses better demonstrate what they are doing, as a way of helping them bring in new business and further strengthen existing relationships.
During the morning those attending will get the chance to hear presentations about how to go about telling other people about their particular business, how they can work collaboratively to build partnerships, how they can be involved in advancing business in their town and how they can use new media to help reach new and existing customers.
The event, which is free to attend, will take place at Cornerstone, 25 Station Road, Didcot, on Monday, March 21, between 7.30am and 12.30pm.
If you are interested in attending please go to LINK for further details or email caroline.wood@southandvale.gov.uk. Or simply join in the conversation at: LINK
AS injuries pile high, Chinnor 1st XV dug deep to win a nail-biting contest against Weston-Super-Mare with a bonus point try in the dying minutes on Saturday.
Chinnor 1st XV went into this game wondering if there was more bad news to come after last week?s serious injuries to Cathcart and Serrano. Jason Bowers brought Harry Hillier into the team for his first start for the 1st XV for many months and moved his backs around to cover the gaps created as a result.
In the last meeting between these two sides, Chinnor won the game with a last minute (somewhat disputed by Weston supporters) try. It was expected that this again could be a close game.
Chinnor?s start could not have been better. From the kickoff, Matt Goode launched the ball into the heart of the Weston defence and pressure from the forwards released Ricky Hopwood to pass along the back line for Harry Hillier to touch down in the far left corner for an unconverted try after only two minutes.
Weston returned the compliment a few minutes later when pressure on the Chinnor line paid off with Paul Sprague touching down. Neither of these two tries was converted; which for once was not due to the infamous Chinnor wind as the game was played in pretty near perfect conditions.
The rest of the first half was a pretty dour affair with the forwards tending to dominate the game by locking up the ball and trying to control the run of play. Chinnor players became increasingly frustrated with around the fringe antics by Weston that were not seen by the referee. This eventually led to Joe Pickett spending 10 minutes after his frustration boiled over.
During this time, Chinnor clung on with fantastic spirit through a mixture of dogged determination, a small amount of good luck and poor decision-making by Weston. A number of times Weston could have capitalised on the extra man by running the ball wide, but chose to use their forwards.
Joe Pickett returned and a few minutes later, Sprague was over the line again after a period of pressure on the Chinnor line. His try was converted. 5 ? 12.
The influential Sprague crossed over again in the 55th minute for his 3rd try which was converted. Chinnor were now looking down a barrel of a very long gun as 5 ? 19 looked way too big of a hill to climb.
Then a series of player changes for Chinnor seemed to revitalise the team; Ed Vickers, Ed Devine & Andy Berry all came on within a few minutes of each other. Positional changes were needed with Joe Winpenny moving to hooker after Alan Cawston left the field injured and Adam Hastings moving into the backs after Harry Hillier was substituted.
It was Hastings with his direct Route 101 approach that burst through to touchdown after a period of pressure by the forwards and backs combining in a way that had been missing since the first few minutes of the game. 10 ? 19 and all of sudden a losing bonus point was looking possible with 21 minutes to go.
Crucially, the referee determined that Weston?s Sam Waterman had killed the ball once too often and he was sent to the bin with 15 minutes remaining. If ever Chinnor had an opportunity to claw back something from this game now was surely the time!
With the backs awoken from their earlier slumbers, Chinnor decided to throw the ball around and together with great combinations with the Chinnor forwards 2 sparkling tries by Harry Jackman and Pip Seymour took Chinnor into a 1 point lead with 3 minutes to go.
Now Chinnor were running the ball so confidently with Seymour having another couple of chances to cement the victory. One where he didn?t realise he was facing a forward and one pass that didn?t go to hand.
The young guns in the team played their part in this great win with Ricky Hopwood marshalling the plays from the base of the scrum/ruck/maul.
This was a game that Chinnor needed to win and they did, just! Injuries have been mounting for some time and this victory will ensure the confidence is high for the upcoming Oxfordshire Cup game against Henley on 1st March.
SOURCE: Contributed
THAME Wombles in Thame are holding a cake sale to help raise funds for the members of SAFARI, a group of special needs adults in the town, to go to the coast to meet up with the RNLI.
Sat.19th Feb: 10.30am-1pm at THAME TOWN HALL
Tea/coffee and home made cake:
All PROFITS TO THE R.N.L.I.
THAME WOMBLES STALL: Hand Made Jewellery and Craft Items: All proceeds to Thame Wombles.
UNITED RESPONSE INFORMATION TABLE:
Find out about support for adults with Learning Disabilities.
THREE people were injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people outside a village pub near Thame.
Police say that the incident stemmed from a disagreement between groups of people at the Rising Sun pub in Ickford at about 12.45am on February 5.
Following the disagreement, one of the men involved got into a car and drove it into a crowd of up to 20 people who were standing outside the pub, driving backwards and forwards at speed, before leaving the scene.
Three men were subsequently injured. The most seriously hurt was a 19-year-old man who was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with leg injuries. After spending several days in hospital the man has been discharged but will still need further operations on his legs.
During the incident, damage was also caused to parked vehicles and a nearby property.
The man driving the car is described as white, of slim build, about 6ft to 6ft 2ins tall, with dark hair. The vehicle is described as an orange/gold Peugeot hatchback with dark wheels and possibly a modified scoop on its bonnet.
PC Charlie Etheridge, of the Roads Policing Unit based at Bicester, said: ?The actions of this driver could have had very serious consequences. We could easily have been dealing with a fatal collision.
?The car involved would almost certainly have some visible damage following this incident, but it may have now been fixed.
?I am appealing for anyone who has information about the car or the driver to contact me as soon as possible.?
If you have information, please call PC Etheridge via the Thames Valley Police 24-hour Enquiry Centre on 0845 8 505 505. If you don?t want to speak to police or leave your name, call the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
SOURCE: Press release
PHOTO: Courtesy of www.geograph.org.uk
Dear Editor, I have been reading with interest the letters published on your web site (letter to the Editor) from Mr Butler regarding his battle with Thame Town Council over his application for a Coffee King street trading licence in Thame.
Is it me or has anyone else noticed Thame Town Councillors total silence with regards to the new Wild Bean Cafe coffee outlet that is coming to town at the new refurbished BP petrol station.
Could it be they are not aware of it, or is it a case that the councillors don?t wish to object to a powerful major brand?
I quote from a previous post ?… there were more than enough coffee-selling establishments in the town, including take-away? ????
S Gee
Wellington Street
Thame