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  • Money Stolen In Thame Burglary

    THAME police are appealing for information following a burglary on Tuesday, February 13, between 12 noon and 5pm, in Broadwaters Avenue, Thame.
    There was no sign of a forced entry to the house but money was stolen.

    SOME Thame residents with UPVC front doors, it seems, are still not heeding police advice about making sure they are locked properly and removing the keys from the lock at night.
    It seems that the burglary reported yesterday, that took place on Saturday, February 10, in Glenham Road, Thame, involved the perpetrator gaining entrance to the house through the UPVC front door which had not been double locked from the inside.
    A second handbag, mobile phones, and credit cards were stolen and some of this property was recovered close by.

    If any one has any information in relation to either of theses burglaries, please contact the police on 08458 505 505 or crimestoppers on 0800 555 111

  • Thame Town Council To Look At Future Of Fair

    FOLLOWING a petition and complaints about Thame’s annual fun fairs in the town centre, the town council is to consider its future.
    Local residents have complained about noise and air pollution from generators, public announcements and amplified music, to South Oxfordshire County Council’s Environmental Health Department.
    Principal Environmental Health Officer, Craig Miller,
    speaking at a meeting of the town council’s Culture and Leisure committee last night, said that the council needed to think about whether the agreement between it and the Showmen’s Guild was being adequately controlled, whether Control Orders needed to be used to strengthen stewarding of the events, to think about whether the scale of the attractions and rides are having a detrimental effect of residents in the area, and to consider ideas about alternative locations.

    He suggested that the council could consider adding conditions to the agreement, for example, stopping the noise etc earlier in the evening.
    The current agreement between Thame Council and the Showmen’s Guild is due to be re-negotiated in 2008 and there is to be a meeting involving the police and the Town Clerk next week to discuss the fair.

    Although Cllr Beatrice Dobie said that she could hardly hear the noise from the fair where she lives in Bell Lane, Cllr Nigel Champken-Woods said that he could hear it 3/4 of a mile away in the Lee Park area.

    Cllr Adam Buckland, who runs a hairdressing salon business in the Buttermarket, said:”When the fair is here, the town shuts down for a week. It effects businesses, commuters and residents. It would make sense to look into an alternative site.”

    “You, the council, hold the key,” said Craig Miller. “I can only help you with the controls which I will do in any way I can.”

    Photo: Copyright- Iain Fairweather

  • Second Burglary In Thame – Ringmaster Message

    ON Saturday, February 10, in the early hours of the morning, between 01:00hrs and 03:00hrs, a property in Glenham Road, Thame, was burgled.
    It is not known how entry was gained. This is the second burglary in Glenham Road, over the past week. Property stolen included a handbag, a wallet and two mobile phones.

    It is thought that the offenders may have been looking for car keys in order to steal vehicles parked in driveways.
    Please remind all ‘watch’ members to keep house & car keys out of sight and to put vehicles in garages overnight if possible.

    If you have any information relating to this message, please call the police on 08458 505 505 and quote URN 243 of 10/02/07.

  • Salvage for The Three Pigeons

    AFTER years of decline at the hands of lap-dancers and then ravers ? the nadir being a stabbing incident in October ? The Three Pigeons at Milton Common has new owners.
    The freehold has been bought by LASSCO (The London Architectural Salvage & Supply Co.) who, with a thirty year history of buying and renovating dilapidated historic buildings and putting them to use, has been tackling the immediate problems on site; fly-tipping, rat infestation and serious flooding being foremost amongst these. A spectacular architectural salvage shop is soon to welcome its first customers.

    LASSCO deals in architectural antiques with an internationally celebrated shop on the southern end of Vauxhall Bridge in London – in the Duke of Brunswick?s Georgian mansion ?Brunswick House?. Saving elements from London?s most interesting demolitions and strip-outs ? be it the stone portico, the fireplaces, floorboards, radiators or railings, the garden ornament or doorknobs, LASSCO has been the pioneer in the restoring and selling of these ?Relics of Old London? for thirty years. Recently the BBC followed the company for their series ?The Reclaimers?.

    The purchase of The Three Pigeons and continuing refurbishments in Brunswick House, has realised enough space to enable the company to relinquish its original headquarters at St. Michael?s Church in Shoreditch, East London, and centre its activities in Vauxhall with its grand eighteenth century spaces and central location on one hand complimented by the space and accessibility offered by the Milton Common site on the other.

    Latest clearances, all on offer at ?LASSCO Three Pigeons? include a wide selection of marble and scagliola sculpture pedestals from The National Portrait Gallery and numerous display cabinets as well as Victorian plaster casts and further marble pedestals from The Victoria & Albert Museum. In the gardens, currently undergoing landscaping, can be found a series of enormous relief-carved stone plaques ? an half-ton each ? depicting the old signs of The City. These remarkable sculptures, the work of Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy in the 1950s, were commissioned for the Lombard Street home of Barclays Bank. A delightful panelled room of nineteenth century Chinese wall-papers laid onto mahogany panels has just gone on display having been removed from an huge demolition underway next door to St. Paul?s Cathedral. You can buy large chunks of Piccadilly stonework for the garden or perhaps the staircase balustrade from the Royal Albert Hall? the list goes on.

    LASSCO, characteristically, has committed wholeheartedly to the Three Pigeons project. Anthony Reeve who has managed the Shoreditch shop for a number of years has moved to Great Milton and enlisted the help of Amanda Garrett to run the shop and numerous Oxfordshire tradespeople have already been involved in the project.

    Anthony and Amanda are researching the history of The Three Pigeons and are keen to track down source material and any records of the site ? particularly its early days: How soon after the intersection of the turnpikes were buildings first erected? Was ?The Hutte? located on the Three Pigeons site? Did the ?Three Pigeons? name come from a precedent in Thame or was it Tetsworth? Does anyone have references to the gibbet at Milton Common and the hanging-in-chains of John Price in 1785?! ? or of his victim Thomas Knight who lived in Great Milton.

    The opening of the shop will soon be announced ? all are welcome to come and marvel at the latest discoveries. Readers of the Thame News are welcome to come to a preview if they telephone prior.

    or more information see: www.lassco.co.uk
    Contact Anthony or Amanda on 01844 278328 or 3pigeons@lassco.co.uk

  • Fire DamagesThame Resident’s Garage

    FOUR fire engines fought to save a burning garage in Thame earlier today.
    The pall of black smoke coming from the blazing building in Kingsey Road, Thame, could be seen from Waitrose’s carpark on the other side of the town.
    The owner of the garage, situated at the bottom of his garden, behind the Churchill Crescent play area, called the emergency services at around 11.20 am this morning, and two engines from Thame, one from Wheatley and another from Banbury, were soon on the scene.
    Thame Fire Officer, Steven Lockwood, told ThameNews.net at the scene: “The fire was quickly brought under control by around 20 fire officers working in teams wearing breathing apparatus, but not before personal belongings stored in the roof space of the building and a fridge-freezer, had been destroyed.
    “We are continuing to dampen down and are keeping a close eye on the building which is in some danger of collapsing.”
    An investigation into the cause of the fire is currently underway.

    Photo: Left: fire officers continue to spray the smoking garage over an hour after the fire was first reported.
    Right: The smoking building viewed from the Churchill Crescent play are in Thame.

  • Chinnor Crime Meeting Postponed Again!

    A PUBLIC meeting scheduled for 7.30pm tonight at the Village centre in Chinnor, has once again beeen cancelled due to the dangerous weather conditions.
    This was to be the Neighbourhood Policing meeting to which local residents were invited to have their say on local policing.
    This is the second time the meeting has been cancelled. The last time was due to the high winds and storms and the organisers, Thames Valley Police, have apologised that is has had to be cancelled yet again.
    The meeting will be rescheduled for a later date.

  • Snow Closes Thame Schools

    ALL of Thame’s schools were closed today after heavy snowfall in the early hours gave young people of all ages the opportunity to swap work for play, and take advantage of what will no doubt become an increasingly rare sight in their lives.
    More snow is expected tomorrow and the advice is to tune into BBC Radio Oxford at 95.2 FM, in the morning for the latest news on school closures.

    Alternatively, schools closed are listed on Radio Oxford’s website:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2007/02/08/school_closures.shtml

  • Appeal Following Thame Burglary

    THAME POLICE are appealing for help following a burglary in Thame – the latest in a series where entry has been gained through insecure UVPC front doors.
    Overnight, between 11pm on February 6, and 7.15am on the February 7, a burglary occurred in Glenham Road Thame, where offenders entered the house through an insecure UPVC front door and stole a number of electrical items including a plasma screen.
    Lesley Nesbitt, Crime reduction Advisor, said:”Just before Christmas there was a sharp rise in the number of house burglaries in Thame where access was being gained through insecure front doors. This is the first burglary of this kind since Christmas and is a timely reminder to other householders in Thame to ensure that they double lock their UPVC front doors before retiring to bed at night. Always know where your keys are in case you need to get out of your house in an emergency.”

    If any one saw anything suspicious or has information about this burglary, please contact Thames Valley Police on 08458 505 505 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

    If you require any information on house and personal security contact your Local Crime Reduction Advisor Lesley Nesbitt on 08458 505 505

  • Council To Give Land For Gadget

    THAME Town Council is to help the family of a young Thame man injured in a tragic fall, to provide an independent living space for him.
    19 year-old Martin Gadd, known to his friends as ‘Gadget’, was paralysed from the waist down a year ago and is currently undergoing physiotherapy and training at Stoke Mandeville hospital. His family live in a four-bedroomed house on Lee Park which is unsuitable for someone in a wheelchair and so approached the council to sell them a narrow stip of land adjacent to their property on which to build a self-contained annex for Martin’s use.
    At a meeting of the council’s Policy and Resources committee recently, it agreed to donate the strip of land free of charge to the Gadd family, subject to planning permission for the building being granted.

  • Thame Toy Shop Gets Temporary Reprieve

    IT has just been announced that the Pied Pedaller toy shop in Thame, can now stay until January 2008.
    A statement issued by Oxfordshire County Council this afternoon states:
    “Following discussions with the company running the Pied Pedaller shop in Thame, the council has offered to extend the lease on the premises until the beginning of January 2008.

    This follows a request by the company, Toyzone, to be allowed to quit the tenancy later this month for commercial reasons rather than to stay until June as previously anticipated.

    The Pied Pedaller has accepted our offer, which we have made so that there will be the minimum time possible between the shop being closed and work starting on the new building, subject to planning permission.

    We want to ensure that it stands empty for as short a time as possible – and of course we are delighted to be able to facilitate the Pied Pedaller. It?s a win-win situation.”