TCC2 is a new children?s choir for Thame, that rehearses on Sundays at 4.30pm, at John Hampden Primary School, Park Street, Thame.
The choir’s aim is to sing and enjoy a wide variety of music together and to perform at a whole range of events, some large and some small.
TCC2’s first concert will be as part of Thame Chamber Choir?s Christmas Fantasia concert on Saturday, December 18, at 7.30pm in St Mary?s Church Thame.
Tickets for the concert are available price
CHINNOR RFC women?s rugby team, Chinnor Chicks, based in Thame are recruiting new young players for the 2010 season. Girls 12-18 with an enthusiasm for sport are wanted to become part of one of the largest sporting clubs in the area to join a fantastic team that trains hard, plays hard and makes sure each game and training session is great fun.
Led by former Chick and Aberystwyth Ladies captain, Lauren Whitworth, the Chicks are moving in to a new era and are looking for build on past success both on and off the field. Backed by a team of experienced coaches, Lauren aims to build a competitive squad that balances great results with fun and enjoyment.
Training is on Sunday mornings at Chinnor RFC on Tythrope Way, at 10-11.30 am. All levels of experience are welcome ? just bring your boots!!!! So turn up or email for further details to: coachingcoordinator@chinnor-rfc.com
SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council has scooped a national award for the most improved recycling rate. The council was announced as the winner of the Best Improved Recycling Rate at the LARAC awards, which are designed to recognise the work carried out by councils and recycling officers across the county in reducing waste and driving up recycling rates.
The award was for increasing the recycling rate from 44 per cent to 64 per cent between April 2009 and 2010. This included ten months of the council?s new waste service, which was introduced in June last year. During the first 12 months of the new service, the council?s recycling rate has risen even further to 70 per cent on average – thought to be the best in England.
Cllr David Dodds, Cabinet Member responsible for waste services, who picked up the award at a ceremony in Liverpool last week, said: “Our recycling rate is a fantastic achievement for the council, our contractors and everyone involved in planning and delivering our waste service and I was proud to pick up this award on their behalf.
“More importantly it is an accolade for our residents who have really embraced the new service and the opportunity to recycle more and reduce the amount of rubbish that we send to landfill. I would like to thank them again for their efforts and encourage them to keep up their good work.”
Roger Edwards, Verdant managing director, added his congratulations, saying: ?This award is recognition for the vision of the council, the hard work of Verdant staff, and the all-important enthusiastic support of local residents.?
The new waste service features a weekly collection of food waste and fortnightly collections of rubbish and recycling on alternate weeks. As well as collecting food waste separately for the first time in Oxfordshire – which alone has helped divert tonnes of waste from landfill – the new service has also enabled residents to recycle more items at the kerbside such as glass, aerosols, foil and food and drinks cartons.
As well as leading to an improved recycling rate, the service, which is being run jointly with the Vale of White Horse District Council, is also helping both councils to save money. In its first year, it is estimated to have saved South Oxfordshire around
Planning Applications to be considered by Thame Town Council?s Planning Committee on Tuesday 16 November:
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P10/E1591 21 YOUENS DRIVE
Garage conversion.
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P10/E1622 LITTLE ORCHARD, 9 TOWN FARM CLOSE
Erection of shed and greenhouse in garden.
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P10/E1352/RET THAME CATTLE MARKET, NORTH STREET
Placement of black storage tanks for waste water.
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P10/E1639/A HALIFAX, 48A NORTH STREET
Replacement non illuminated signage converting the current Halifax Agency site to Santander Agency to the front elevation.
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P10/E1666 6-8 CHINNOR ROAD
Alteration and extension to existing extension, to form additional residential unit.
BUSINESSES in southern Oxfordshire are being invited to join in the great skills debate at Science Vale UK?s next Business Breakfast. The breakfast, which takes place at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus on 26 November, will look at the skills issues highlighted by research as important to SVUK businesses, and provide an opportunity to debate what could be done to make sure these issues don?t become a problem in the future.
At the session, those taking part will get the chance to:
look at the findings from a recent Oxfordshire wide skills survey and consider the skills issues affecting Oxfordshire,
look at the issues that are affecting the science and innovation communities,
debate emerging policies on apprenticeships and training, and hear from training providers,
take part in a question and answer session with skills experts.
The breakfast will feature guest speaker Wendy Tillsley, from the Oxfordshire Innovation and Growth Team, who will discuss examples of good practice in training that have been used by Williams F1.
Steve Moss (Science Vale UK Project Director), said: ?The breakfast will give business representatives in the area an important chance to get together, explore the skills issues that they are facing, and work together to come up with ideas to stop these issues becoming problems.?
The Science Vale UK Business Breakfast takes place on 26 November between 8am and 10am at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, OX11 0QX.
If you are interested in taking part please complete the online application form at: www.sciencevale.com/events or contact the Vale?s Economic Development Officer Trudy Godfrey on 01235 540346.
Dear Editor, On various occasions I have been puzzled about the disapproval of the cows outside Newitts. My wife and I think they’re charming. The fact that they’re large and realistic makes them even more agreeable.
I’m sure children must love them. We also like the pig that lost a bit at the end of its tail. Perhaps I should pay more attention to the deliberations of our town council – a body which our lovely town would be much worse without, by the way – but I wonder what the problem is: surely not ‘health and safety’. If not that what?
Norman Brand
Fanshawe Road
THAME gathered around the war memorial on a cold and damp Sunday, November 11, to remember the dead of two world wars and the conflicts since that have seen the ultimate sacrifice of men and women from all the Services.
Among the hundreds who came to be united at this time of tribute was Ricky Kingham of Long Crendon, who has seen action in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, and Len Webb, Freeman of Thame, who was one of the first allied troops to enter Belson when it was relieved in 1945.
Representatives of many local organisations, including ATC, guides, scouts, the police, Rotary Club of Thame, Thame Twinning, the fire service, Thame WI and Lord Williams’s School, went one-at-a-time to lay a wreath on the steps of the Thame War Memorial in Upper High Steet.
Rev Garratt lead the Prayers for Remembrance Sunday, which included the exhortation to pray for all who suffer as a result of conflict; for members of the armed forces who are in danger in Afghanistan and elsewhere; for civilian women, children and men whose lives are disfigured by war and terror; for peacemakers and peacekeepers and all who bear the burden and privilege of leadership, political, military and religious.
PHOTO: A representative from Lord Williams’s school in Thame lays a wreath on the steps of Thame’s war memorial.
THE Rotary Club of Thame planted 1,000 Crocuses at the Moats, Lea Park in Thame, on Saturday (November 13). The work was carried out by members and partners of the Rotary Club of Thame. Some of the crocus bulbs were planted in the shape of the letters “END POLIO NOW”.
Rotary Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland have been working to plant purple crocus bulbs from the beginning of October so that they will be in flower for Rotary Day ? 23rd February 2011. These purple flowers represent the colour of ink dabbed on a child?s little finger to indicate that they have been immunised against polio.
The Rotary Club of Thame is grateful to the Thame Town Council who approved the use of the Moats for planting the crocus bulbs.
TWO Thame schoolgirls who went missing on Tuesday (9/11/10) and been found safe and well.
Hannah Waters, 16, and Joanna Walters, 15, both pupils at Lord Williams’s school in Thame, disappeared after they were last seen boarding a 280 bus in Thame town centre heading for Oxford.
Both girls were found safe and well in the Birmingham area yesterday evening (11/11) and have been returned to their home addresses.
Thames Valley Police have thanked the public and media for their assistance in this matter.
FOLLOWING an your article on ThameNews.net about criticism from some Thame Town Councillors about the life-size plastic cows to be seen grazing outside a local butchers shop, a Save-The-Thame-Cows campaign has been launched on Facebook.