Category: Thame news

THAME’S MP, Boris Johnson, has declined to comment after coming second in a recent Poll to find Britain’s Silliest Celebrity.
This dubious honour was bestowed on Boris after 2000 ‘Readers Digest’ readers were asked to vote for who they considered to be our nation’s silliest celebrity.
Looney luminary, Boris was pipped at the post by Black Sabath rock star turned nuttiest dad, Ozzie Osborne, following the reality TV series that recorded the ups and downs of his family’s life.

Despite some less controlled moments, like his below-the-belt rugby tackle of an opponent during a charity football match, allegedly driving around in an open-topped sports car with his two sons strapped in one seat belt and his appearances on comedy programmes like ‘Have I got news for you’, Boris is generally well respected for his Constituency work and holds a place in the affections of many of his constituents who may or may not share his politics.

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POLICE are appealing for witnesses following two thefts in the Thame area recently, including one from the Toweresey Festival showground.
Between 9am and 10am on Sunday, August 20, a stall holder setting up for next week?s festival, had their bag stolen.

In a second incident, between 12pm on August 21 and the same time the following day, in Overton Drive, Thame, a number of garden pots were removed.

Anyone with information about either incidents is asked to contact the police via: 08458 505 505, or Crimestoppers anonymously on: 0800 555 111.

POLICE in Long Crendon are appealing for the public?s help to trace an arsonist who set a car alight.
The K-registered gold Vauxhall Cavalier was parked in Abbot Ridge on Friday night (18/8). Sometime between 6.30pm on Friday and 3.30am on Saturday (19/8) the car was set on fire.

Officers have been unable to find anyone who witnessed the crime and are now urging any residents in Long Crendon, who may have information about the arson, to contact them.

Anyone with information can call PC Alan Nixon on 0845 8 505 505. If you don?t want to talk to police and don?t want to give your name, call the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.

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A MAN has died following a road crash on the A329, Rycote Lane, between Milton Common and Thame.
The Police were called to the scene of the accident at 1.13pm on Saturday,Augustst 19, following reports that a Renault panel van had crashed.

A man believed to be in his twenties, travelling on his own, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The road was closed to allow accident investigators to examine the scene and for the van to be recovered.

Anyone who witnessed the crash and has not yet spoken with police or who may have any information is urged to contact PC Martin Boyden at Abingdon Roads Policing Unit via 0845 8 505 505.

If you don?t want to speak to police and don?t want to leave your name, contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

BRILL Oldies 87.9 FM radio will be broadcasting again this month.
The Radio Station will be On Air 24 hours a day from the 24th to the 28th, covering the Brill Beer Festival (26th to 28th) and the Brill Fete on Bank Holiday Monday.
The station has an oldies format playing popular music from the 1950s through to the 1980s.

on the August 27th, Brill Oldies will be presenting a Roadshow with a pop quiz, interviews etc from the Beer Festival site.

THAME town councillors are very upset over a decision to grant planning permission in the town centre for a development of flats and houses.
Thame’s Deputy Mayor, and Honoury Citizen of the town, David Dodds, accused South Oxfordshire District Council of “running rough-shod again” over the views of Thame residents and councillors who objected to the development.

SODC’s Planning committee approved the erection of three houses and six flats on land to the rear of 10 High Street, Thame (Newitts’ the butchers’)on the recommendation of Planning officers. Several letters of objection had been lodged with the authority and Cllr Beatrice Dobie spoke personally on behalf of Thame Town Council at the meeting on August 2.
Mrs V Tanfield, the agent for the applicant, spoke in support of the application.

Additional conditions, including bin stores, secure cycle parking on site and details of security gates on the footpath between the buildings, were made on the planning permission.

For full details of the application and the conditions imposed on the applicant, visit SODC’s website.

DR KEN BURCH, of the Rycote Practice, Thame, has spoken about the uncertainty among Thame health workers, waiting to hear where cuts to save

AFTER it was reported in the press today that Oxfordshire’s independent car repair shops and service centres are the most expensive in the country, ThameNews.Net decided to investigate whether Thame garages reflected this finding.
After talking to six Thame garages today, (five independents and one franchise), we discovered that the average hourly rate charged for labour in Thame was around

THERE are still some places left on the coach for the annual trip to Montesson, Thame’s twin town near Paris, which will include a trip to Monet’s garden at Giverny. The weekend trip runs from Friday, September 15th to Sunday, the 17th.
The coach will be leaving about 6am on the Friday (well worth the early start!) and will arrive back around 11-11.30pm on the Sunday night.
The cost will be

A bench has been placed at the Thame Skate Park in memory of a Thame teenager who died after being hit by a car.
Last September, 14 year-old Chloe Owens, a pupil of Lord Williams’s school in Thame, was hit by a car as she crossed the road near a roundabout on the Thame by-pass.
Chloe’s grandparents, Mr and Mrs Binnie, have had a bench installed at the skate park at Church Farm, because Chloe loved to go there with her friends. Thame Town Council have said that it hopes that young people using the skate park will, as well as making use of the bench, respect Chloe?s memory by treating it appropriately.
One of Chloe’s friends, some of whom are pictured taking a break from skate boarding in today’s warm and sultry weather, said: “Most of the people that come up here are nice people and wouldn’t damage something that ins memory of one of us. It’s our park and we’ll make sure nothing happens to Chloe’s seat.”

Chloe?s grandmother, Mrs C Binnie, raised the money for the bench by running a sponsored slim.