Category: Business News

INSTALLATION of the eagerly awaited CCTV scheme for Thame, is due to start on Monday, January 16.
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BOTH the Buttermarket, and part of Rooks Lane, where it joins the Upper High Street, Thame, will be closed from January 26 for up to 18 months, whilst cabling for Thame’s CCTV system is installed.
The alternative route for traffic affected by the Rooks Lane closure is via Upper Hight Street, Nelson Street and Southern Road. No alternative route for Buttermarket traffic will be available.

THAME company, Kidde Products, presented some very necessary equipment to Thame Fire Officers yesterday.
Station Officer, Andy Ford and Fire Officer Kirsten Purnell, received Two kit bags to carry vital Defibrillators to patients as part of the Fire and Ambulance services Co-responder scheme.
Brian Keeble, Marketing Services Supervisor at Kidde Products, also presented two Pulse Ox meters that clip on to a patient?s finger and give vital information about a patient?s pulse rate and oxygen levels in the blood, information that can tell whether the patient?s condition is deteriorating or improving.

Andy Ford told ThameNews.Net: ?These specially designed bags will enable us to stow our equipment in a much more convenient way and make it easier and quicker to access it in an emergency instead of having to fumble around in an ordinary holdall.?

Thame Fire Officers are currently attending around 150 incidents per year where there is risk to life, as part of the Co-responder scheme, when, because they are closer to the incident than an ambulance, they can get to the patient first, administer First Aid and then hand over to paramedics.

Kidde Products make fire fighting and fire protection equipment and received an emergency call just after 7am on the morning of the Hemel Hempstead Fuel storage depot explosion and fire, and supplied 600,000 litres of special foam concentrate to fire officers dealing with the emergency.

THE premises on Banks Parade, Haddenham, which were vacated in early October after JMW Vicary (chemist) moved to the new Haddenham Medical Centre, will re-open on Tuesday 13th as a hairdressing salon.
?Salon 7? will be run by villager, Joanne Stevens. From next month, she is also planning to provide beauty treatments (facials, tanning etc). The telephone number of the salon is 295804 and it is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9am-5.30pm; Thursdays, 9am-6pm; Fridays, 9am-7pm; and Saturdays 9am-3pm. Out of hours bookings are also available if required.

BORIS JOHNSON MP has pledged his support for the ‘Try Thame First’ campaign, currently running with Mix 96, initiated by Thame’s business community and the town council. Photo: Keith Slater and Alun Rowe, from Thame Chamber of Trade
Boris, who has a home just outside Thame, told ThameNews.Net: “I think Thame is a wonderful little town. I love ambling around the shops in what is a beautiful, historic market town, where all the shops are close together, there’s free parking and the I can find vertually anything I need here.
“I personally use both Waitrose and the Co-op as well as the marvellous independant food retailers like Local Tastes and Umbertos. I’ve bought toys, clothes and, soft furnishings and gifts in Thame, served by friendly, helpful staff.
“You’ve also got some great pubs, restaurants and cafes.
“Shopping in Thame is always an enjoyable experience and I think that what the town has to be proud of deserves to be shouted from the rooftops.”

The ‘Try Thame First’ campaign has another two weeks to run and incorporates a competition whereby a lucky shopper who fills in an application form obtained from any of the participating shops displaying the Mix 96 sign, can win

THE world speaks English ? who needs to speak another language? True, you might think, we are fortunate enough to have our native tongue spoken and understood in most corners of the globe.

The fact remains however, that language qualifications are still highly valued by universities and employers, keen to promote their business in Europe. Jackie Jewell, head of Languages at Lord Williams?s School would be very pleased to hear from employers, parents, graduates, volunteer workers – anyone who uses a language as part of their working lives or as part of their interests, hobbies or leisure activities. ?It would be wonderful for our students to hear first hand how useful and beneficial it can be to have a language qualification.?

The Language department would like to invite people who use languages as part of their everyday lives into the school to talk to small groups of Year 9 students currently studying French or German. The aim of this session would be to encourage students to take a language at GCSE and would take place towards the end of January/beginning of February 2006.

If you are interested in talking to students, please contact Nicky Stallwood, Careers Manager at Lord Williams?s School on 01844 210524 or email on n.stallwood@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk.

OXFORDSHIRE shoppers are being encouraged to ?Shop Local? and boost business in the county?s towns and villages, and in Oxford, over Christmas and New Year.

As towns across the county prepare for their big Xmas light switch on promotions, the 1,000-member Oxfordshire Town Chambers Network (www.otcn.co.uk) has issued the ?Shop Local? message to encourage people to play their part in efforts to promote the vitality of our town and local shopping centres.

OTCN co-founder John Naish says: ?Christmas and the New Year is an absolutely crucial time for retailers and other traders in our towns and villages, and in the city of Oxford.
“With Christmas lights, special events and activities, and late opening, a huge amount of effort is made ? much of it by volunteers – to promote trade over the festive season. Our traders, town Chambers and Business Groups, often in partnership with local councils, work hard across the county to organise and run these activities and it would be great to give them the backing they richly deserve.
“We understand that people are attracted to major centres outside the county and that increasingly online shopping is a factor. But there is something extra special about shopping in our towns, especially at this time of year, and we hope everyone will make ?Shop Local? at least a part of their plans for Christmas and the New Year.”

The Oxfordshire Town Chambers Network links together local business groups and helps them share ideas and experience of the work that they do in towns across the county.
Thirteen town Chambers or business groups ? in Abingdon, Banbury, Bicester, Burford, Carterton, Charlbury, Chipping Norton, Didcot, Faringdon, Oxford, Thame, Wantage, and Woodstock – with 1,000 members between them – have already joined the Network. Three events networks: The Oxfordshire Womens Forum, The Late Breakfast and Wantage & District Business Breakfast Club have also joined, while five other town business groups in the county are discussing membership.

The Oxfordshire Town Chambers Network aims to help its member organisations share ideas, best practice, and experience of common issues that they are tackling in their towns in Oxfordshire, and engage group groups in lobbying local authorities and other decision makers.

SEE OUR SPECIAL ‘CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN THAME’ FEATURE
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A THAME delicatessen has been praised for its olives in a prestigous food magazine.
Popular local radio host, Bill Heine, who can often be seen shopping around Thame, was commissioned by The Olive Magazine to write a bite sized gourmet guide to Oxford.
In a section called ‘Best for Olives’, Bill Heine says of Umberto’s, in Greyhound Walk, Thame: “Umberto makes all his own dressings and from hundreds of recipes he chooses ten on the day. The Sorrento olives have fresh Sicilian wild fennel, garlic and parseley and dry chilli. The green queen olives from Puglia are marinated in truffle oil and porcini mushrooms with garlic, and the black Scicilian olives are in chilli oil and chianti. Umberto has just produced his own Extra Virgin Olive Oil, first cold pressed from Puglia. Extraordinary; so thick that if you put it on bread, you have a meal.”

Photo: Umberto stands in front of his shop in Greyhound walk with a bottle of his new Extra Virgin olive oil.

THE ‘Try Thame First’ campaign, aimed at encouraging more shoppers to discover the advantages of shopping in the town, needs more retailers to take part in a local radio campaign during the run-up to Christmas.
So far, 24 retailers have committed to paying a contribution of

THAME Town councillors are not happy with the new, modern replacement signage that recently went up in the three Co-op shops in Thame.
The have asked South Oxfordshire District Council’s Conservation Officer to look into their suitabilty in a historic, market town.