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LOOKING for something exciting to do with the children? Why not come to Aston Rowant Nature Reserve on Sunday, July 2, and take part in some fun environmental activities?
The Chilterns Conservation Board is teaming up with English Nature for a Nature Family Fun Day. Drop in at any time between 12 noon and 4pm to find out more about wildlife and nature in the Chilterns.

Have a go at willow weaving, plant some seeds, learn how to make a witches broom and make mobiles out of natural materials. All activities take place on the part of the reserve opposite Cowleaze Wood car park on the Christmas Common Road, not far from Stokenchurch.

The event is free, though some activities have a small charge. There?s no need to book. For more information call Anne at the Aston Rowant Nature Reserve on 01844 351 833.

Have you seen a missing black and white cat?
The owners think that a car travelling along the Kingsey road late on Thursday night (22nd June) may have injured him. He was seen to go off in the direction of Sevenacres.

If you have seen him, are taking care of him, or if you have any other information, please contact 01844 217449.

“Governments and councils need to work to deliver sustainable and technological change which will benefit the environment not support meaningless anti-car gestures.”
This was the message of Conservative Councillors at Monday?s meeting of the County Council at which they rejected Liberal-Democrat and Green calls to participate in today’s (Thursday) European Car Free Day in Oxford City.

Branding the day “a token gesture,” Councillor David Robertson (Cabinet member for transport) said:
“The County Council has already put its money where its mouth is. Take congestion in Oxford City, for example. We said in our manifesto that we would support park and rides by making them free. We?ve done that for those park and rides this council owns.
“If City Councillors really wanted to support the aims of European Car Free Day they would follow our example and do the same for their own park and rides. That would have more impact than a tokenistic gesture.”

Speaking during the debate, Cllr Dr. John Howell (Dorchester & Berinsfield) lambasted the whole European Car Free Day project.He said:”This sort of intellectually dishonest gesture holds out to people the illusion that today there?s a real alternative to motorised transport. For many people, especially in rural areas, the car is a necessity which has improved people?s lives. Even the UN point out that without real mobility the poor simply get poorer.
“A billion tonnes of carbon could be saved by 2050 simply by doubling the mileage of all cars from 30 to 60 mpg. That means working with the car industry.
“Neither the Liberal-Democrats nor the Greens seem to understand that making the industry and the car scapegoats is not going to achieve sustainable change. Instead, they prefer simply to reach for futile gestures.”

SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council has awarded funds for Thame’s Citizens Advice Bureau for a further year.

A FEW tables are still available for a Quiz Night to raise funds for the Pamunugama Orphanage in Sri Lanka for Children of the Tsunami.
The event, at Chinnor Rugby Club, is on Friday, June 30 at 7.30pm, and the cost is

SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council has been overwhelmed with the take-up of ITS new garden waste service, with over 4,000 in the first few weeks and has issued the following responses to the most frequently asked questions:

PARENTS and carers are being invited to register their children for this year’s Thame Summer Playscheme.
The enrolment evening for the scheme is Wednesday, June 28, at Lord Williams?s Lower School, Towersey Road, Thame between 7.30pm and 8.30pm.
Registration forms can be obtained on the day of enrolment.
Dates for the Playscheme this year are Monday, July 31, to Thursday, August 10 at Lord Williams?s Lower School.

THE ThameNews office welcomed some very special, young guests this week, and further fostered international links to the town and the website.
A group of 10 students from the Friedrich Ebert Gymnasium (Grammar School) in Bonn, Germany, came in to the news office in Upper High Street, to meet the Editor and learn how news is gathered and relationships with local advertisers and sponsors are built.
As well as the business and technical side of running a news website and Thame.net, the information website for Thame, the students learned about a day in the life of a website editor and the place of the websites in the community.
The students, most of who were staying with host families of pupils from Lord Williams’s school, had spent a very full week visiting Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, the Tower Bridge Experience in London, shopping in Oxford Street and a river trip on the Thames.
Accompanied by teachers Frau Judith Fehmer and Frau Beate Rosendahl, this was the 24th year of exchanges between Friedrich Ebert school and Lord William’s Upper school.
Plans are already underway for the next visit which will, of course, be extra special, making it a relationship that has lasted for a quarter of a century!

Up-dated – LOLLY the pony entered in the spirit of things on the eve of England’s World Cup match last Saturday.
Here she is, supporting England and the best dressed table competition at a Charity Picnic held at Scotsgrove House on Friday.
The Jazz Picnic at Scotsgrove House on June 9th was in aid of The Friends of Nadezhda Job Centre who have
aims to provide skills, motivation and job opportunities for unemployed people from the townships near Cape Town, South Africa where unemployment is around 40%.

Nearly 300 people attended on a beautiful evening, picnicing and dancing to the Oxford Jazz Quartet making it a sell-out. Final figures on the amount that the event raised aren’t yet available but clearly it was a great success. The auction of a tapestry specially made for the event was auctioned for

A recent inquest into the death of Thame man, found that he took his own life.
Darren Paul Cross, of Wykeham Park, Thame, was found dead in a disused barn in Stockwell Lane, Waterstock, on January 11, earlier this year.
After consideration of all the evidence, and studying post mortem findings, the South Oxfordshire Coroner, Mr Nicholas Gardiner, judged that Mr Cross had died from asphyxiation as a result of hanging himself.