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THE organisers of Thame’s Music in the Park, on May 12, are aware of how difficult it can be for parents with younger children to fully relax and enjoy large events such as this festival. Thankfully, BASE, from Barley Hill Church, will be lending a helping hand to provide some welcome free time for parents, keeping the kids happy with jungle-themed activities.

BASE* will be running activities for children aged 4 -12 in the Children?s Crafts Area. Children can be left to enjoy a range of fun activities in the capable hands of trained volunteers, allowing their parents to enjoy the music and see the rest of the attractions at their own pace. This year the activities will have a jungle crafts theme and the children will have fun creating animal face masks and musical instruments.

Sessions time are: 13.00-13.45, 14.00-14.45 and 15.00-15.45.

Sessions are split between 4 – 8 year-olds and 9 – 12 year-olds, and there are 40 places per session.

These sessions are free, although a donation would be appreciated.

Other fun activities for the children will include the Mega Slide, Bungee Run and Disco Dome.

Music In The Park is the ideal family-friendly event and local youth are well represented among the performers, which will include the John Hampden School Choir and Little Bill?s Big Band, comprising pupils from Lord Williams?s School.

With Music in the Park?s family entrance tickets being such good value (

EUROSCEPTIC MEP, Daniel Hannan, is holding an open discussion at The Spread Eagle, Thame, on Saturday, at 10 am.

He will be joined by ‘Day of the Jackal’ author, Frederick Forsyth, to talk about Europe.

FIRE OFFICERS from Thame Fire Station will be outside Thame town hall on Saturday, ready to wash your car for charity.

This has now become an annual event and Saturday’s event replaces the carwash that was postponed from March 16, due to inclement weather.

Firefighters based at different stations across Oxfordshire offer their cleaning service to passing motorists in return for donations to the Fire Fighters Charity (formerly known as the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund).

Last year, 2013, volunteer fire officers from Thame raised

WHERE? Christchurch, Upper High St, ThameWHEN: 10am-12noon. Bring and/take for free CD’s, DVD’s, Videos, Books, Clothes, Bric-a-Brac, Toys and Games, Small household items. Items in good condition only.

All About Bikes: Come and sell your unwanted or outgrown bicycle and/purchase one. Bring bikes to sell, labelled with your name, telephone and asking price. FREE POSTCODING; For further information contact Andy Gunn on 01844 214295 or email andygunn41@yahoo.co.uk

PHOTO: Flashback to a previoussuccessful CAG bike swap event

THE rsidents of Thame are being offered a recession-slapping 25% discount off the price of tickets for this year’s Towersey Festival!

Taking place in the nearby village of Towersey from 22-26 August 2013, the annual festival has been a major event in the Oxfordshire social calendar for 49 years.

This year, headline acts include Mercury Prize nominated The Unthanks (pictured), the chart-topping Blockheads, live favourites Show Of Hands, Bellowhead’s Spiers and Boden and a specially reformed Home Service, featuring War Horse songsmith John Tams.

There’s also appearances from father and daughter folk music legends Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy, Swiss Cajun punks Mama Rosin, global brass band Orkestra del Sol, Gypsy jazz combo Mani

COME AND SING! for Cancer Research UK Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs with Baritone Stephen Hamnett; Also Bach – Wachet Auf; Handel – Zadok The Priest

Conducted by Ian Westley
Organ Colin Spinks

Saturday 13th April
St. Mary’s, Haddenham, Bucks. HP17 8AH

FROM 10am – 2pm around the Town Hall area in Thame there will be a street collection to raise funds for the National Osteoporosis Society.

The local support group will be there to give out information. Website: www.nos.org.uk/

GET your hands on tickets for Thame?s Music in the Park festival and let?s bring on the summer! With three live stages boasting a fantastic line-up, two well-stocked bars, children?s activities and the Mix96 Mega Slides, Music in the Park 2013 promises to be a summer treat for everyone!

The entertainment programme continues to attract exciting acts, from Little Bill?s Big Band to Hats Off To Led Zeppelin; Alvin the Ultimate Elvis to the Raw Diva Dance Troupe as well as the Haddenham Ukulele Group to Bolt From the Blue. There truly will be something for everyone.

For the children, Barley Hill Church will be running activity sessions at set times during the day for children aged four to 12. The activities will have a jungle crafts theme and the children will have fun creating animal face masks and musical instruments. These sessions are free, although a donation would be appreciated.

WHERE TO GET YOUR TICKETS

Tickets for this fantastic, family-friendly day are now on sale and can be purchased from the following outlets in Thame: the Town Hall, Domesco, Vintage & Modern Guitars, Fore Golf, The Falcon and The Cross Keys. In addition, they are available online at: < a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/215805"target="_blank">www.wegottickets.com/event/215805. Prices for advance tickets are

HAND balancing, Aerial acrobats, Unicycling, Clowns and funny dogs are things you could see in a talent show on TV, but what is even better? To see it LIVE! To see the talents from so close that normally only the judges can see them. This is now possible because Circus Ginnett is coming to Thame from April 10 to 16, with a brand new show!

?Lovely show folks, the little one loved it too. Can I say the small things count too like the way we were welcomed; you are all a friendly bunch and that is a bigger bonus. Of course the show was brilliant too!?

This is only one of the many positive reactions Circus Ginnett had about the 2012 show. So Circus director, Patrick Austin, continues his 200 year old family tradition with an all-new show for 2013 with new, international artists from Hungary, Holland, Ireland and the UK.

Lights off?. Spot on, let the show begin! In a one and a half hour show circus Ginnett presents to you, for the first time in England, clown Anton! Dutch clown Anton has smuggled all his craziness into The UK.
Patrick is back with his police dog Vader. With his hilarious antics Vader is preventing Patrick to steal the jewellery in the roof of the big top. Together they will make you fall off your chair with laughter.

Jenny from the UK will make her entrance on the aerial net. Sparkling in the roof of the big top, she will amaze you with elegance and grace. Eva will amaze you with her sword and knife balancing skills. Danni Endresz with his dare devil unicycle skills!!!! And lets not forget about Lui all the way from Hungary!! And his blinking lamp post!!! Will he ever get that light to stay on?

A mix of sizzling excitement, perfectionism and up-tempo humor awaits you in the latest production of circus Ginnett. The result is a smooth running, fun filled performance that captivates the audience from the beginning to the end; a show that once again proves that circus art is valued entertainment for all ages!

The long family history and the friendly image makes Circus Ginnett truly unique entertainment. As soon as you step into our big top you will feel the magic called circus.

Enough said ….come and enjoy what the traditional circus still has to offer!

For more information or to book tickets call TEL: 07582 35 36 34 visit www.circusginnett.com or find us on facebook. Just enter ‘Circus Ginnett’.

SOURCE: Press release

THAME Cinema 4 All presents: The Hunt, this Saturday, April 13; Made in Denmark – released 2012, 88 minutes, 15 certificate; Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Susse Wold, Thomas Bo Larsen

Vinterberg?s latest is a brilliant Danish drama about a man wrongly accused of paedophilia thanks to the dangerous lies told by an innocent child. Mikkelsen is outstanding in the role of school teacher Lucas. Life has been difficult ? he lost a job because of local cuts, has been forced into a lowlier position at a nursery school, and is engaged in a bitter dispute with his ex-wife over access to his teenaged son. Just when things seem to be looking up ? he is well liked in his small community, and has found a new girlfriend – he becomes the victim of a small act of revenge.

The daughter of a friend is slighted when Lucas refuses a gift. Peevish and hurt, she decides to tell the school administrator that Lucas has exposed himself to her. Child psychologists and police are called in, and mounting suspicion escalates against the increasingly marginalised and paranoid hero. It is a frightening and all too believable story, told with intelligence and maturity, with gripping suspense. It asks important and timely questions about community and the ease with which perfectly reasonable people can be swept up by group hysteria.