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  • ‘Stellar work’ of Integrated home technology firm rewarded

    A Thame firm, that installs integrated home technology, such as multi-room audio-visual entertainment and touch-of-a-button lighting and heating control, is celebrating after attending the recent ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) trade show in Amsterdam.

    The Cyberhomes crew share their celebrations with their twitter followers

    Cyberhomes, based at Station Yard in Thame, were named as DEALER OF THE YEAR by the home automation and control system manufacturer Control4. Cyberhomes has been installing integrated home technology systems since 2004, and Thamenews.net covered the opening of their state-of-the-art showroom in Howland Road, Thame, by the then Mayor, David Bretherton, in October 2007 (See LINK).

    The company recently completed a luxury home in St John’s Wood, with home technology integration value in excess of £650,000, using 19 Control4 EA-3 and EA-5 control and automation processors and 16 Control4 in-wall touchscreens.

    Cyberhomes Director, Ion Smith, said: “The Control4 range of products gives us great flexibility and scalability allowing us to specify it on projects ranging from a single home cinema room through to the whole house integration of some of London’s most prestigious homes.”

    “Our presence in Europe and Asia continues to grow, bolstered by expanding dealer capacity and our local support in UK, Frankfurt, China, and Australia,” added Bryce Judd, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Control4. “These awards recognize the best dealers and distributors, and project awards give us the opportunity to showcase the stellar work dealers have done installing Control4 systems in homes, commercial spaces, MDUs and hotels, and even yachts.”

    Cyberhomes work closely with developers, housebuilders, architects, interior designers and M&E consultants to integrate control and AV systems with the overall building design and performance. The Cyberhomes founders have a background in outside-broadcasting technology for the BBC and say that they take the same rigorous approach with the equipment, cabling and software behind home automation projects.

    You can find out more by visiting the website: www.cyberhomes.co.uk

  • Thame store shows love for the locals in charity week

    THE White Stuff store in Thame, needs just one more push to place Thame at the top of the clothing chain's league table for the most funds raised during this week's LIVE LOVE LOCAL event.

    Throughout the week, White Stuff have been running a different activity each day, including childrens’ art and craft activitities, raffles, table tops sales of donated toys, toileteries etc, with the aim of raising as much money as possible for its chosen local charity, the Thame and District Day Centre. Tomorrow, Saturday, is the last day of the LIVE LOVE LOCAL campaign, and to help Thame take that No.1 spot, they’re running a cake-baking competition. Anyone can enter, so take along your signature bake for judging by mid-day – and eating by anyone who turns up, for a donation.

    Thame.net went along to the White Stuff shop earlier today to find out for ourselves what’s behind LIVE LOVE LOCAL, and to hear from Retail Assistant Beth, how the businesses and people of Thame have been getting behind the cause, to help our wonderful Day Centre, which, by the way has had its funding towards rent cut and may struggle to stay open into the future.

    Watch our interview with Beth here on Youtube:

  • It’s A Small World at John Hampden Primary School

    THIS year’s Artsweek at John Hampden School took pupils on a Fantastic Voyage, with the theme, It’s a Small World, inspired by an ant’s eye view of life!

    With the school’s very own supersized ant called Dec, the school hall was transformed into a giant garden to help him feel at home, with monumental grass and mammoth flowers. Huge bugs populated the skies, with massive garden debris filling the land. The Year Six children had that shrinking feeling, and could be seen ducking between the colossal obstacles and riding the huge bugs in true ’Honey I shrunk The Kids’ Style.

    A range of artistic activities enabled the growing transformation, including larger than life ladybird biscuits, buzzing big bottle bugs, creative clay and plasticine scaled up sculptures, spectacular stained glass insects, beautiful colour mixing butterflies, soft toy sewn bugs and butterflies, as well as the enduring favourites of painting, drawing and junk modelling all things supersized. The children also carried the theme on in class with a cross curricular week inspired by that shrinking feeling.

    Friday’s dress-up day saw the school and its inhabitants metamorphosis into the Ugly Bug Ball, with an array of ants, a score of scary spiders, a bunch of beautiful butterflies, some big beetles, lots of large ladybirds, a swarm of buzzing bees and a gaggle of great grasshoppers!

    Jackie Nichols, Arts Coordinator at the school, explained: “As always John Hampden has seen an art army of parents, grandparents, governors, carers, artists, teachers and teaching assistants, old and new, and volunteers to support the children in their massive artwork, with a multitude of helpers (nearly 60!), who came to help bring our ideas to life!

    “The John Hampden PTFA provided the means to fund the week, with a generous donation which enabled the school to provide a multitude of artistic experiences and resources for the children to enjoy! The staff also set the children a challenge in the Artsweek Quiz, where pupils had to match a Small World creation to the right staff member who made it, in the ‘Whose Small World Is This?’ competition, complete with an arty prize for the winning entries!

    “Well done as well to Niamh Whitworth and William Franklin for being the crowned winners of the Artsweek shield for their participation this year.

    Jackie concluded: “At the end of the week JHS friends and family were pre-shrunk to enable them to enter our gigantic, glorious garden of art at the Friday Artsweek Fair-Trade Café finale.

    Honey we shrunk the kids, made friends with big bugs and hid within our giant garden, but all will be returned to normal size over half term at JHS, and we will enjoy our hall in the weeks to come as a reminder of our supersized mini adventure!”

  • No Sex Please, We’re British

    THAME Players will be present this rip-roaring comedy by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot, at The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, between March 6 & 10, 2018.

     

     

    Due to a simple mistake a young couple get inundated with pornographic material. How will they stop the tide before senior bank officials find out?

    Visit Thame Players’ website for full details and ticket information. LINK HERE

  • US police probe terrifying ordeal for ‘Slo Mo’ guy, Gavin Free

    A SHOCKING news story has emerged involving Thame-born YouTube superstar, Gavin Free, and his girl friend, Meg Turney. According to the Albuquerque Journal, based in the United States where Gavin now lives, the couple hid in a wardrobe, calling 911 while a man searched through their home in Austin, Texas, armed with a gun and firing at least one round inside the house.

    Video internet personalities Gavin Free and Megan Turney posted on YouTube. (Courtesy YouTube)

     

    Less than 10 minutes later, that man was dead in the driveway, apparently by his own hand. But, thankfully, according to the report, Gavin and Meg had not been harmed. The man, according to police quoted in the report, had ‘developed a fondness’ for Meg Turney, and had made notes of violent thoughts about Gavin Free.

    Gavin was brought up in Thame, and was a pupil at Lord Williams’s School in the town. He has made a name for himself producing ‘science and Technology entertainment’ YouTube videos made with high-speed cinema cameras, with his friend Daniel Charles Gruchy, also from Thame.

    Their YouTube channel has over 10 million subscribers and over one billion video views.

    You can read the whole story published by the Albuquerque Journal, HERE

  • Much needed points for Chinnor

    CHINNOR Firsts started against the wind and the conditions led to many handling errors from both sides. Following a yellow card to Broadstreets’ flanker, the game opened with Chinnor creating a try after three minutes with a scrum under the posts and George Oliver driving over with Bentley adding the extras for a 7 – 0 lead.

     

    Straight from the kick off Chinnor fumbled the ball giving Broadstreet the opportunity to reply with a quick try scored by prop, Ackuaku, but unconverted. Than, a sniping run from scrum half Goodfellow saw Chinnor increase their lead to 12 – 5.

    This was soon followed by a well worked try scored by Jonny Bentley who started and finished the move, giving Chinnor a 17 – 5 lead at half time.

    The second half started in a dramatic fashion with Chinnor spilling the ball in the middle of the park, resulting in a kick and chase with Broadstreet’s scrum half Thatcher scoring near the posts, converted by No 10 Hodgson. Chinnor responded with a drive into Broadstreet’s 22m area where Mike MacDonald took a quick penalty to score out wide to give Chinnor some breathing space with a 22 – 12 lead.

    Broadstreet took possession from a Chinnor lineout and Murray went over for an unconverted try to narrow the score to 22 – 17. A penalty converted by Bentley with the last kick of the game saw Chinnor win by 25 -17 and earning them five much needed bonus points.

    Attendance : 268
    Man of the Match : Tom Ranaboldo

  • Bring your carer along to the Forget Me Knot Café

    IN case you haven’t yet heard about the wonderful Forget Me Knot Café, it is a Monday morning café to provide information, peer support and fun activities aimed at helping with co-ordination, brain stimulation, and general health and wellbeing for people suffering with dementia, mental health issues, old age or isolation.

     

    Co-ordinator, Michele Pethers says: “Everybody is welcome – come along with your carer, we would love to meet you! We meet twice monthly 10.30 – 12.30pm at the Chinnor Village Centre.  You will be welcomed with a cup of tea and biscuit. We start with fun seated exercises, followed by our visiting expert. At the end of the session, we play parachute games, juggling, throwing balls, flat football, floor netball, finishing the session with a poem, lyrical or a reading.”

    PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2018

    19 Feb      Visiting Museum Hands on Heritage
    19 March  Music Dance Song Heddi – Kiddledivy
    16 April     Spring Tea Dance Ian Engish and Co
    30 April    Music & Comedy Adrian Broadway
    14 May      Music & Entertainment Jinglers Band
    11 June     Folk Dancing & Singing Black Dog Band
    25 June    Singing and Guitars Julia Hollander and Roddie
    9 July       Singing and Dance Village Voices
    23 July     Music and Singing Banjovi Revival
    06 Aug     Music and Song Doroth Howlett – Music for Health
    20 Aug     Singing & Guitar Andrea Yates
    03 Sept    Music and Singing Chiltern Songbirds
    17 Sept     Music Therapy Ellie Ruddock ChilternMusicTherapy
    01 Oct      Music Singing Black Dog Band
    15 Oct      Drumming Fun African Marimbas
    29 Oct     Autumn Tea Dance Ian English & Co
    12 Nov     Music Therapy Frances Vovillo ChilternMusicTherapy
    26 Nov    Warm up to Xmas Heddi – Kiddledivy
    10 Dec     Christmas Carols Mill Lane School Choir

    For further information contact Michele on 01844 353154/07779732097 or at info@holisticmassageuk.co.uk or Val on 01844 352254 or at valerie.edwards2053@btinternet.com And follow on the facebook page:  www.facebook.com/forgetmeknotcafe

  • Thame to host Para Swimming event

    THAME & District Lions Club (CIO) have announced the first Thame Para-Swimming Event to be held at Thame Leisure Centre on Saturday, March 24, 2018.

    The event’s activities are being organised and run on Thame Lions’ behalf by Thame Swimming Club, in association with Swim England Para-Swimming and hosted by Thame Leisure Centre.

    This event aims to provide swimmers with a Physical, Visual, Hearing and Intellectual (low IQ), a taster of para-swimming with the opportunity to race over a short distance.

    Free Entry

    The normal £5 Entry Fee has been waived for the 2018 Thame Para-Swimming Event , but The Lions will gratefully receive donations on the night to the Thame & District Lions Club (CIO), should participants wish to do so!

    Entry form and full details on the website: https://thameanddistrictlions.org.uk/2018-thame-para-swimming-event/

  • ‘Sunday Night Fever’ at Music in the Park

    ONE of the top Bee Gees tribute acts is to headline this year’s Music In The Park, in Thame, on Sunday, May 6, 2018.

    The Bootleg Bee Gees

    So, Guys, get your white suits and gold chains ready; gals, get your chiffon party dresses out, because the headline act at this year’s Music in the Park are top Bee Gees tribute act, the Bootleg Bee Gees. This band has played throughout Europe for the past fifteen years, performing in theatres, festivals, clubs and hotels, always bringing the house down with their faithful recreations of all those famous Bee Gees tunes.

    All the greatest hits are featured; from the dance sounds of Saturday Night Fever to sixties classics like Massachusetts and Words and all those Bee Gee songs made famous by other artists such as Chain Reaction (Diana Ross), Islands in the Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton), Tragedy (Steps), How Deep is Your Love (Take That) and Grease (Frankie Valli).

    Chris Fram, Chair of the Music in the Park organising committee, said: “Having a Bee Gees tribute act will be particularly poignant for the people of Thame considering the town’s long association with Bee Gee, Robin Gibb, who lived here from 1984 till his death in 2012.”

    Advance tickets for Music In the Park 2018, are now available online at: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/427258. Ticket costa: Family (two adults and three children) £25; Adult £10; Concessions £7 (Plus 10% booking fee)

    To keep up-to-date with news of this year’s Music in the Park event, visit the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/MusicInTheParkThame or the website www.musicinthepark.org.uk

  • Thame’s news in brief

    Future Electric Charging Points in Thame High Street? – THAME Town Council has been looking at details of a Government announcement about funding to provide electric charging points on High Streets. However, it has become apparent that getting the funding isn’t as straightforward, as a lot of changes would have to be made to the layout of parking bays, which would need to be carried out with Oxfordshire County Council as the Highways authority, and with the district council; a possible facility to be included in a future ‘Green Plan’ being worked on by the Thame Neighbourhood Plan Continuity Committee.

    Currently, the nearest charging point for electric vehicles is at Haddenham and Thame Parkway Station.

    Cricket Club Neighbour’s Meeting – NEIGHBOURS, businesses and community groups whose properties adjoin Thame cricket club are being invited to attend a meeting at The Barns Centre, for an update on how work on the new pavillion and facilities there is progressing. Representatives from the project management team, the construction company, the cricket club and the town council will be in attendance on Tuesday, February 13, from 4pm-5pm, to answer and questions.

    Do you have a burning question for the Police? -REPRESENTATIVES from Thames Valley Police will be attending a full, Thame Town Council meeting at 6:30pm on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, to give an update on policing in Thame. Questions will be allowed by both by Councillors and anyone else who attends.

    Thame’s Kebab Van needs your vote again! – For the second year running, Atalay’s Kebab Van has been shortlisted in the ‘Kebab Van of the Year’ category at the sixth British Kebab Awards. Your vote is needed to help Thame’s Kebab Van retain it’s crown as the best Kebab Van in Britain! Go to the facebook page and vote now! https://www.facebook.com/Atalayskebabsthame/

    Prayer Week in the town centre – THE seven churches in Thame have united to organise a Prayer Week in the town, to run from 13-20 May, 2018. Planning permission for a yellow portocabin-type accommodation unit to be sited in Montesson Square for people to use for prayer throughout the week has been submitted to the District Council.