Category: Thame news

SUPPLIES of unleaded petrol at a Thame Garage are low, amid threats from fuel protesters against rising prices.
At the Shell garage in Park Street, Thame, a steadily moving short queue this afternoon discovered that the petrol station had run out of unleaded fuel, except for Optimax, which is over

WORK to improve the War Memorial in Thame’s Memorial Gardens, should begin soon following the acceptance of a grant from English Heritage.
The work, which includes cleaning the bronze plaques, removing the copper staining from the stonework, re-pointing and repairing the steps, should be completed by November 11, Remembrance Day.
The

THAME police are seeking information following the theft of a valuable trailer from a front garden in Wheatley.
The Ivor Williams trailer, worth around

SUPPORTERS of a proposed 20mph speed limit for the centre of Thame, were left saddened and disappointed last night, after the scheme was rejected by Thame Town Council.
Oxfordshire County Council had chosen Thame for a Pilot scheme to introduce some additional traffic calming measures to reduce traffic speeds to 20mph, in an effort to reduce the potential for accidents and were asking for the council?s support to enable them to begin wider consultation.
Speaking to the council, Margie Barbour said that she spoke for parents, young people and the elderly in asking that the proposal be allowed to go to a wider public consultation on what she described as ?an opportunity to take Thame into the 21st Century? and help make it a safer place for young people to walk and cycle to school as, she said, she and probably councillors would have done in their day.
?You are giving us parents a tough call,? she said, ?in asking us to allow an 11 year-old girl to cycle in this town.?
She spoke about the statistics involving the difference in severity of injury to young road accident victims between vehicles travelling at lower speeds and how Lord Williams?s school was keen to encourage more pupils to walk and cycle to school. Her comments met with cheers and claps from a group of youngsters in the public gallery.
Mr Richard Hughes, speaking against the proposal, said that he feared higher pollution levels, that the current level of accidents did not warrant more calming, response times of emergency vehicles would be increased and that the

THAME’s award-winning gardeners were presented with their trophies and rosettes last night, by Thame In Bloom’s Mavis Ayres.
The main winners, some of whom are pictured, were Mr and Mrs Sellwood, (Best Small Garden), Mr A Dodd, (Best Large Garden), Miss Shirley Sellwood, (Best Maisonette or Retirement Bungalow), Mr & Mrs Conibear (Best Facade). Mrs Adam Buckland represented Brothers, who won the Best Hanging Basket Display catagory.
CPM won the Best Industrial Display, John Hampden School, Best School and the Bird Cage was judged to be the best display by a pub or hotel.
The Best Street Award went to nos. 1-20 Pearce Court.

THAME POLICE are looking for a suspect, following a burglary in Wheatley last week.
Sometime between 2.50pm and 4.10pm on Monday, August 22, offender/s forced a rear window at the rear of a property in Old London Road, Wheatley, gained entry and after an untidy search, took several valable items.
The suspect is described as a white male, betwee 5’8″ and 6 ft tall, slim and wearing a dark coloured base ball cap over ginger hair that was visible beneath.
Anyone with any information about this incident or the suspect should contact PC Andrew Smith via the Police Enquiry Line 0845 850 5505, or if they do not wish to give their name, call Crimestopper 0800 555111

THAME police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted theft in the High Street, Thame.

At around 10am on Wednesday, August 17, a woman aged in her forties was walking behind the town hall when a man attempted to snatch her handbag.

PC Martin Davis, based at Thame police station said: ?Thankfully the offender failed to steal the woman?s bag. He is white, around 5ft 10ins, stocky, and was wearing blue jeans and a light blue T-Shirt.

?I appeal to anyone who saw a man of this description acting suspiciously in Thame last week to contact police on 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.?

THIS year?s Towersey Festival is officially the BEST EVER, with record numbers of visiting thronging to the festival site just outside Thame, over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Jess Adams, speaking on behalf of Mrs Casey?s Music who organised the festival, told ThameNews.Net: ?For the first time since we increased the size of the festival, we completely sold all 3000 season tickets printed and were busier than we have ever been. We expect that well over our usual 10,000 visitors came this year. Rolf Harris went down an absolute storm and the queue for Kate Rusby stretched to the far end gate at one point, tickets completely selling out for both of them in the new, bigger theatre. The fantastic weather no doubt played its part in making this year, what so may people came up to us and said was the best yet.?

Stand-by generators had to be put into action when a power cut affected an area with a four mile radius around Towersey, on Saturday, for around three hours.
When asked by how much the Towersey Festival could grow in the future, Jess said: ?We don?t want to lose the unique, family-friendly, layed back, easy-to-walk to festival; we are only a small village and can only develop on what we have already got.?

Photo courtesey of Towersey Festival website

AN agreement to sell Thame Town Council land at the back of Van Diemans Road, as part of a regeneration scheme for the area, has been put on hold.
SOHA Housing Ltd, the housing association that currently manages the Van Diemans estate, has been consulting with the planning authority and residents about a face-lift for the area, which could include refurbishing existing flats and maisonettes and adjoining land, the demolition of garage blocks to provide new affordable housing and improved parking and lighting.

SOHA have asked the town council to sell them the area of grass at the rear of the flats and maisonettes to allow for 20 new parking spaces for the estate, to alleviate parking problems currently being experienced. The price they are asking is

THE FORTY FIRST Towersey Festival has been hailed a success by visitors and organisers, thanks to a wonderful line up of entertainers and a crowd in happy holiday mood courtesy of the wonderful bank holiday weather.
Thousands of visitors of all ages visited the four-day family-friendly festival this year, some camping for the whole duration and others visiting for the day to either listen and watch a variety of entertainment, from Rolf Harris to Kate Rusby who sang some of the numbers from her latest album, The Girl Who Couldn?t Fly, or to join in the many workshops.
Others enjoyed the spontaneous theatre and jam sessions in the local pub or on the site itself, in between partaking of the excellent beer and cider on sale in the bar tent, visiting the trade market to buy jewellery or clothes, or strolling round the Craft and Music Fair; a perfect way indeed to end the summer holiday.