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THE Film makers of the ITV drama series,’Midsommer Murders’ will be in Thame again next Monday and Tuesday, August 15 and 16.
The locations are:
MONDAY – Upper High Street, by the public toilets & Tourist Information Centre 8am to 8.30am. (TIC to represent a library). Later, 8.30am-9.30am approx, Thame Library, Southern Road, filming interior scene. 34 Upper High Street, 9.30-10.30am approx,exterior scene; 10.30am-Mid-day approx. infront of Swan Hotel.
Spread Eagle Hotel, Mid-day-7pm – filming inside hotel.
TUESDAY – Spread Eagle Hotel 8am-7pm approx. Filming inside.
Filming for episode 3, ‘Vixens Run’ to be shown later in the year.

TRIPLET calves, born on a farm near Thame last week, are doing fine, according the man who helped them into the world.
Colin Anderson, a tractor driver at North Weston Farm, was called out at 4am on Saturday, July 29, to attend to a cow that was in labour, because the regular Herdsman was on holiday.
“The cow had given birth to twins and I was very surprised to then see a pair of feet on the way!” said Colin, a former herdsman himself.
The mother is coping well and the two heiffers and a bullock are flourishing.
Triplet calves, especially live births, are very rare and this is the first time in 20 years that anyone at North Weston has seen such a birth.

THE annual (summer holiday) Haddenham Playscheme is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and a display on its history can now be seen at Haddenham museum.
The museum is open on Sundays between 2-4.30pm and Tuesdays between 10am and noon; entry is free.

A NEW manager has recently taken over the Witchert After School (and holiday) Play Scheme (WASPS) at Haddenham County First School.
Father of two, Richard Lay, is a Cub Scout master in Haddenham and he has also been a Beaver leader in Long Crendon. There are still places available at the summer holiday sessions, (8am- 6pm) and children aged 5-11 YRS can be registered for any morning or afternoon sessions or can stay all day. Call Richard on 07903 280461 for more details.

THE Oxfam Book shop in Thame underwent a temporary face-lift on Sunday, when it became the location for the filming of an episode of the TV Drama series, ‘Midsommer Murders’.
This picture shows a lighting technician adjusting his equipment outside the shop, which has been disguised at a secondhand bookshop called ‘Cover to Cover’.
Other shops in the Buttermarket underwent a similar transformation for a flashback scene to Coronation year, 1953.
By Monday morning the town was miraculously back to normal and the film crew had disappeared leaving no trace of their presence.
The episode, entitled ‘Vixens Run’, will be shown later in the year.

Thame Library will be closed for the day on Tuesday, August 30, to allow the replacement of rotten woodwork.
The closure will follow the Bank Holiday closure on Monday, August 29, and as the library is closed on Wednesdays anyway, the total closure period will run from 4.30pm on Saturday, August 27 to 9am on Thursday, September 1.
Contact Library Manager, Lesley Horrocks, on 01844 212288 for any further information.

ROBERT Perkins, TV actor from Where the Heart Is, Dalziel and Pascoe and Rosemary and Thyme, taught top tips for TV acting to the youngsters taking part in the video workshop at Thame Youth Centre last week. “It was a brilliant workshop, I wish there could be opportunities like it for all the children in UK – I really enjoyed myself!” said Robert before dashing off the the Libary Theatre in Manchester where he is to star in “Dancing at Lughnasa”

The young film makers, who were aged between 13 – 18, made short films; a comedy about a drunken fairy and a mix up in voices, a Monster movie and “Don” a black and white short about mafia killing.
“It was really cool!” said Matt Harris (14). “Robert showed us how to make the fight look really good, with great angles for the shots.” They shot some of the monster movie, “True Blue” in Thame; heads turned as people caught site of aliens shopping at the Co-op and Essences in the Buttermarket.

Their films were then shown at Thame Cinema with “Dodge Ball”, and the audience laughed along, not realising the behind-the-scenes dash to get it edited in time. “The Thame Welfare Trust have supported us very generously,” said BBC producer Margie Barbour, “as has the Thame Partnership. The kindness of Paddock Video in still lending us editing equipment so soon after Gordon Surman’s sad death was especially generous.”

Margie Barbour led the workshop with Gavin Slaughter and Leone Lachlan, and Lord Williams’s audio-visual wizard, Jeremy Palmer, supported the group technically. All the young peoples’ one minute movies will be on the BBC Oxford web site at www.bbc/oxford/films.co.uk The workshops were part of OFVM’s SummerScreen project.

THAME Library is now open for a full day on Saturdays, 9.30am to 4.30pm.

DR BURCH & Partners have announced the dates for their Flu Clinics.

These will be Saturday, October 8, and Saturday, October 22, between 8.30 and 10.30 am.
The clinics are for patients aged 65 years or over or those younger who are in an ?at risk? group.
A pneumococcal vaccination is also available for those over 65 years.

July 2005 is Recycle Month.
Find out by going along to the Tourist Information Centre, Upper High Street, Thame, on Thursday, July 28, from 10am and 1pm and Meet “Soxon”. Take part in interactive waste activities, pick up a free recycling box, and get your free, clear recycling sack and eco-sack.
For more information, please contact Public Amenities on 01491 823416, or recycling@southoxon.gov.uk.