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HAVE YOUR SAY about what you would like to see future funding for Thame’s community and social facilities spent on.
Thame’s 21st Century Thame Partnership wants the views of local people to help it update the Action Plan first made in 2004.
The Partnership, which was set up to implement planned projects to protect, promote and enhance the town, has distributed a Thame Community Needs Survey form to homes in and around the town to garner the ideas and views of as many people as possible.
The survey form is also available on the Partnership’s website: Link

21st Century Thame Partnership includes representatives from the local community, businesses and the local authorities.

MEMBERS of The John Hampden Regiment, in full costume, formed a guard of honour when Thame’s museum was officially opened on Saturday, by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire who called the long-awaited event ‘a remarkable occassion.’
In his speech after the cutting of the green ribbon, the Lord Lieutenant, Hugo Bruner JP, gave special mention to the Museum’s founder, Rosalie Gibson, whose idea it was originally to transform, what was, the old Thame Magistrates Court, into a museum. He congratulated also the Thame Historical Society who had done so much towards establishing the dream of a museum for Thame and acknowledged the contributions made by Oxfordshire County Council, South Oxford District Council and Thame Town Council who bought the building in 2004 and now lease it to the Thame Museum Trust who run the facility.
“It is important for a town that is going to grow,” he said, “that its children know what has gone before and to know the story so far in their lives.”
He wished the Trustees success in raising the

A FUND raising vintage fashion show is to be held for Martin Gadd, from Thame, who was paralised in a tragic fall in 2006. The show is to be held at The Swan Antiques Centre, Tetsworth, on Friday, April 20, and has been organised by friends of Martin’s family to raise money to help build a purpose-built extension to his home.
The cat walk models will all be friends and past Lord Williams’s school mates of Martin’s.

A father of three from Long Crendon has died from complications following a football accident.
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ALMOST three years since after an 11 year-old died at Thame’s Jubilee Pool, the Oxfordshire Coroner has announced that an inquest will be held by the end of the year.
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THAME’S gaffe-prone MP, Boris Johnson, has offended the citizens of Portsmouth, describing it as being “…too full of drugs, obesity and underachievement”.
The town’s MP, Mike Hancock, called Boris a baffoon and a pratt, and is calling for him to return to Portsmouth and apologise to its citizens for an article he wrote in the life style magazine, GQ.
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THE estranged husband of a woman found dead with her Thame lover in a burned out bungalow, has been found guilty of their murders.
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THAME police are urging car owners to remove valuables from their cars at beauty spot car parks after a spate of thefts.
Since the beginning of March, 15 vehicles have been broken into at beauty spots at Christmas Common, Britwell Hill, and the B4009 Lewknor near Junction six of the M40.
Peak times for the thefts are around lunchtime and most happen on Fridays and Sundays and financial documents, purses, wallets, cheque books as well as laptop computers, handbags, keys and mobile phones are being stolen.

Crime Reduction Adviser, Lesley Nesbit, said:”With the lighter days and better weather, people go to these beauty spots to enjoy a long walk, and their unattended cars provide an opportunity for thieves to break in and steal property from them.
“The message is to leave no valuables or papers in your vehicle.”

Extra police patrols are in the area to catch and deter these thieves.

If you have any information contact police on 08458 505 505. If you do not wish to speak to police contact the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.

FRIENDS of Thame and District Citizens Advice Bureau, which is a newly registered charity (No 1117782), held a St Patricks Day Quiz at Lord Williams Lower School which raised a fantastic

THE jury in the case of a double murder involving a Thame man, has been sent home today and ordered to return tomorrow to continue its deliberations.
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