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Author: Sonja Francis

  • St Joseph?s Parish Summer F

    St Joseph?s RC School & Church, Brook Lane, Thame, 11am to 2pm at St Joseph’s school.
    With a great variety of food, bar & children?s activities, as well as the ever popular cake, plant & book stalls.
    Come and join the fun on our inflatable assault course, plus lots more!

  • Quiz in aid of the Richard Wheeler Memorial fund

    Supporting the British Heart Foundation – Friday, June 27 at Chinnor Rugby Club.
    8.00pm start – Tables of 6-8 people –

  • Long Crendon Fete

    LONG Crendon PTA – Magnificent Midsummer Fete at Long Crendon Recreation Ground. From 2pm. Free entry.
    Including spectacular ?Spitfire Fly Past?, live brass band, fairground and pony rides, pig roast, beer tent, traditional stalls, activities and contests. Fantastic family outing.

  • Music for the summer solstice

    THAME Chamber Choir’s summer concert, The Long Day Closes, will include music by Jean Racine (Cantique), Sullivan (The long day closes), Schubert, Rheinberger and Eric Whitacre.
    Also madrigals and arrangements of popular songs.

    The concert begins at 7.30pm on Saturday, 21st June, at St Mary’s church, Thame, and the tickets are available from Sapphire Moon, High Street, Thame, or by sending a cheque to: Sue Griffiths, 11 Cromwell Avenue, Thame, OX9 3TG

  • What’s On in Haddenham during June

    Continuing until June 29th Art Studios. The 16-day Bucks Open Studios event continues and, from Saturday 21st, there will be displays (including 2 new artists and a glass maker from Cuddington, who hasn?t exhibited in Haddenham before) in the Manor Farm tithe barn, Church End, in addition to the venues listed last week (the Methodist Chapel, High St; The Studio, Fort End; 4 Whitecross Rd; Old Barn Cottage, 25 Churchway; and Dragon Barn, Churchway). Entry to the studios is free and a Village Arts Trail map is available at any of the venues. A free directory, giving opening times and details of the artists, is available from the library and some of the village shops.

    Fri 20th Ramble. The popular Haddenham Village Society midsummer ramble, led by Peter and Diana Gulland, has been revived this year and takes place on Friday. A coach (

  • Thame Christian Viewpoint for Women….

    invite you to an evening of Strawberries & Cream
    with Sparkling Wine, and to hear Speaker, SARAH de CARVELHO, talk about her experiences with the Street children of Brazil.
    The venue is the Thame Barns Centre and the event will begin at 7.30pm.

    As well as strawberrries and cream and sparkling wine, shortbread biscuits and a non alcoholic fruit punch will be served.

    Sarah is the author of the book ?Street Children of Brazil? and has been a TV presenter before she went out to Brazil to work among street children.

    She now works in the UK for ?Happy Child? an organisation that helps street children worldwide.

    Price

  • Visit Thame aritists in their studio for Bucks Arts Week

    THREE Thame artists who all work with paper in different ways, have opened up their studio to visitors as part of Bucks Arts Week.
    Go along to 2, Essex Road, Thame, (turn left off Chinnor Road, before the bridge or right just after the bridge if you are coming from Chinnor direction)between now and June 29 and see Heather Hunter, Jackie Nichols and Christine Tacq in action and discuss their work with them.

    Open hours are 11am to 6pm (not Tuesdays)

  • Tory’s withdraw lawsuit threat

    FOLLOWING a statement made on local radio this morning that his party intended to sue the Liberal Democrats over their latest election pamphlet, David Cameron’s Conservative party has now amended its response saying that they are taking legal advice.
    Boris Johnson has accused the Liberal Democrats of producing a “shameful leaflet masquerading as some sort of independent Oxfordshire magazine.”

    In a letter to Lord Rennard, who is leading the Lib Dems Campaign, Boris is demanding that the View magazine leaflet be withdrawn.
    “I ask that you immediately withdraw it since, on the back page, you have what purports to be a picture by-line opinion piece from me giving my assessment of the candidates in the Henley by-election.
    “This is simply a shameful exercise in misrepresentation,” wrote Boris.

  • Ringmaster message – Burglary in Thame

    ON Thursday, June 19, between 16:00hrs & 19:00hrs, a property in Queens Road, Thame, was burgled. Offender(s) gained entry via an unlocked french door and stole a wallet from the aggrieveds handbag.
    If you have any information relating to this message, please call the police on 08458 505 505 and quote URN 1382 19/06/08.

  • Thame Town Cricket Club beats struggling Burnham

    THAME produced three excellent sessions of cricket to eclipse a Burnham team that needs to rapidly improve to avoid any thoughts of relagation.
    Thame were invited to bat and got off to an excellent start with some fine batting from Manog Parmar(82) and 15 year old Michael Beard (64).

    On a difficult pitch Parmar and Beard laid the foundation for a magnificent 241 with a partnership of 135 for the first wicket. With the middle order all pitching in with useful contributions, Thame set what was to be a formidable target of 241.
    In reply Burnham could not find any momentum on a pitch that wasn?t getting any easier on the batsman. Merry(5-58) and Lachlan (4-41) were supported by some excellent catching and in particular some very tidy work from Mitty behind the stumps.

    Burnham stuggled to come to terms with the accurate Thame attack and lost wickets at regulat intervals to finish 111 all out in the 37th over.

    Score card

    Batsman How out Bowler Runs
    M Beard Ct Nadeem Hussain 64
    M Parmar LBW Hussain 82
    L MERRY Bowled Gandam 25
    A Krol Bowled Hussain 12
    R Brooks Ct abd bowled ditto 26
    J Bhatti Not out 13
    M Meredith bowled Hussain 14
    M Higgs Not out 1
    C Mitty dnb
    S Lachlan dnb
    T Hogan dnb

    Extras: 4 nb, 2 w,2 lb ( )
    Total: 241 for 6 ( 60 ovs)
    Fall: 1-135, 2- 165, 3- 175 , 4- 194, 5- 221
    6-240, 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-

    Bowling:

    Name Overs Maidens Runs Wickets
    N Baig 10 2 46
    H Gandham 14 2 53 1
    M Fazal 6 2 15
    Y Hussain 21 2 89 5
    N Nawaz 8 36

    Innings of: Burnham

    Batsman How out Bowler Runs
    H Khan Ct Mitty Lachlan 8
    A Javed bowled Merry 7
    M Fazal St Mitty Lachlan 13
    Y Hussain Ct Meredith Lachlan 26
    S Nadeem Ct Mitty Merry 16
    A Chaudrey Ct Parmar Bhatti 18
    H Gandham Ct Krol Lachlan 5
    N Baig Ct Parmar Merry 0
    E Miah Lbw Merry 0
    I Aziz Not out 2
    M Nawaz Ct Hogan 9

    Extras: 7 nb,1 w,1 lb (4)
    Total: 111 for 10 (37 ovs)
    Fall: 1-11, 2- 29, 3-41, 4- 64 , 5- 76 , 6-82 , 7- 83 , 8- 83 , 9- 102,
    10- 111

    Bowling:

    Name Overs Maidens Runs Wickets
    L merry 19 5 58 5
    S lachlan 15 5 41 4
    J bhatti 3 1 7 1