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  • Barn Dance And Pig Roast In Haddenham

    A barn dance and pig roast is being held at Backstable Farm, Haddenham from 4pm on Saturday, June 9, in aid of Cancer Research UK.
    Tickets are

  • M40 Southbound Crash – Update- Arrest Made

    A man has been arrested after this morning’s five-vehicle crash, on the M40 near Beaconsfield, in which one person has died and several others injured.
    An articulated lorry, two vans and two cars were involved in the crash between Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross at around 8.40am.
    The motorway has now been closed southbound between junctions 4 and 1A, to help ease the congestion on the diverted A40 routes.
    This accident comes only four days after three people died in a collision on the M40, near High Wycombe.

    Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact Sgt Steve Madoc-Jones atAmersham police station via 0845 8 505 505, or if you don?t want to talk to the police or give your name, call the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.

    Further updates will be placed on the website as soon as they are available.

    Photo:Courtesy of BBC – for illustrative purposes only

  • ThameTown Cricket SideTumble To Kew

    See Full story from Oxford Mail. Link

  • 6 million Train Makeover

    PASSENGERS travelling from Thame and Parkway Railway Station between London Marlebone and Birmingham, will soon start to see improvements to Chiltern Rail’s entire fleet of Clubman trains.
    Chiltern Railways has began a

  • Smoke free stations from 1 July

    FROM July 1M smoking will no longer be allowed on any railway stations across Britain, including your Thame and Haddenham Parkway.
    From 0600 am July 01, government legislation prohibiting smoking in public places in England comes into effect. This will mean that passengers will be unable to smoke on all station concourses, ticket halls, platforms – covered and uncovered – and all footbridges at station premises.

    The ban also affects railway offices, station offices, canteens and all workplaces which are covered by the legislation. However, smoking will still be permitted on most station forecourts and in (uncovered) station car parks.

    No Smoking areas will be clearly signed and will include booking halls, platforms, footbridges, subways and lifts.
    The existing ban on smoking on trains and London Underground managed stations will continue.

    For help and advice on giving up smoking:

    Call the NHS Smoking Helpline free on 0800 169 0 169 (Daily, 0700 to 2300).
    Text ‘SMOKEFREE’ and your full postcode to 88088 to find your local service.
    Check the Go Smoke Free website.

  • Support Cut For Chilterns (Contributed)

    THE Government has cut its financial support for the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
    The Chilterns Conservation Board, which receives grant aid from Government agency Natural England for its work, has had its grant aid for special projects cut by 55%. Sir John Johnson, chairman of the Board, said: “This is a blow for the Conservation Board, the AONB and our partners.” He added: “Last year the Conservation Board received over

  • Volunteer Thanked For Child Pedestrian Training

    A WELL-KNOWN Chinnor and Thame Friend of the Earth, who has devoted 16 years of her life to voluntary child pedestrian training is to be thanked by Oxfordshire County Council for her work.
    Maureen Dyroff has helped hundreds of youngsters at the Jack and Jill Pre-school in Chinnor since the early 1990s. She has been the driving force of the project at the Chinnor pre-school since the Footsteps child pedestrian training scheme was set up county-wide.
    Maureen and her team of staff and volunteer parents, are among the 1,300 volunteers being thanked by the county council’s road safety team for their commitment to teaching vital life saving skills to children as part of Footsteps.

    Local county councillor, David Wilmshurst, will be presenting Maureen with a bouquet of flowers on Thursday, June 7, as a token of thanks. Children at the pre-school will be drawing pictures of their experiences and these will be displayed for parents to view.

    Maureen said: “I have seen the Footsteps programme develop over the years and I have observed how the practical training has affected the behaviour of the children and, equally importantly, the parents. If we save just one child all the years will have been worth it.”

    Sarah Gniadek Pitt, Oxfordshire County Council’s Road Safety Officer, added: “Maureen is one of the army of 600 plus volunteers who help children develop these decision making, life saving skills to keep them safe now and in the future.
    “The support of the volunteers is very much appreciated and on behalf of the county council I thank them.”

    Photo: Maureen Dyroff at a recent Green Fayre, wearing one of her many, volunteer ‘hats’

  • Youth Event At Thame Town Hall

    THAME town councillors have agreed to the use of the town hall for a young people’s event to celebrate the end of examinations.
    In a presentation to members of the town council’s Policy and Resources committee on Tuesday, by one the 21st Century Thame’s Youth Councillors, town councillors were assured that the event would be well marshalled by volunteers and some paid security operatives to ensure that no alcohol was taken into the building.

    The event is intended to keep up the momentum gained by the popular youth nights at The Social in North Street, which ceased when the business closed down. It is aimed at young people from 13 to 18 years-old, will include DJs as well as bands and run from 7.30pm to 10pm.

    Cllr David Laver said: “I know that previus events like, this that we have held in the open air, have caused doubts and consternation but they were fine. We should certainly be encouraging greater use of the town hall.”
    Cllr David Bretherton said that he was of the opinion that the town council should support this venture whole-heartedly and in charging for the hire of the town hall, it should be considered as a charitable event.
    Cllr Donald Butler suggested that this event should be looked upon as a test for such events.

  • Advancing A New Library For Thame

    THAME councillors have agreed to form a working party to bring together all the organisations interested in advancing a new library for Thame.
    The suggestion came from Councillor Beatrice Dobie, a founder member of the Friends of Thame Library, who suggested that there is a need to keep the new library in the forefront of the public’s mind. “It is,” she said, “the responsibility of the town council to ensure that the town’s views are heard about the formation of a new library, and for instance to ask the schools what they want from a new library.”

    No plan has yet been drawn up for a new library, which the county council have said will be built some time next year on the site of the current Pied Pedaller toy shop, in North Street, Thame.
    The store was given an extension to January 2008, after its owners had originally asked to terminate the lease last February.

    The site is not, however, a popular choice of site for everyone in the town, with some, including CMAG, the Cattlemarket Action Group, preferring to suspend the decision to build in North Street, until the future of the Cattlemarket site is decided, believing that a library could form part of a larger community facility on the cattlemarket site.

    Photo: The Pied Pedaller toy shop in North Street, Thame, which is planned to be demolished and replaced with a new library.

  • Road Works In East Street, Thame

    SEWER repairs will be taking place between May 29 and June 1, in East Street, Thame.
    Traffic will be restricted to a single lane. Contact Paul Marshall, Clancy Docwra on 01865 845396 for information.