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Author: Sonja Francis

  • Places Available For Haddenham Playscheme

    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.

  • Thame Council To Discuss 20mph Speed Zone

    THAME Town Council’s Planning committee are to discuss the county council’s proposals for traffic calming measures to reduce the speed of traffic in parts of the town to 20 mph.
    The meeting, which is open to the public to observe, will be held tomorrow (Tuesday, August 9) in the town hall at 6.30pm.
    Mr Anthony Kirkwood, from the Environment & Economy, Road Safety Department at OCC, will attend the meeting.

  • TV Film Makers In Thame

    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.

  • Temporary Closure of Thame Library

    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.

  • Young Thame Film Makers Get Tips From The Pros. (Contributed)

    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 United To Hold Public Meeting

    FOLLOWING a committee meeting last night, (Aug 4), Thame United have decided to hold a public meeting, open to all local residents, to discuss the way forward for the football club.
    This meeting will be held at 7pm on Wednesday,August 10,at Lord Williams Lower School, Towersey Road Thame. All are welcome to attend.

  • Thame Library Extends Saturday Opening

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

  • Protest Yourself Against Flu This Winter

    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.

  • Thame United Locked Out

    THAME United Football Club have vowed to play on, despite its landlord foreclosing the lease and bringing to an end use of the Windmill Road site.
    All last weekend?s functions, including a planned Rock Night and friendly football match on Saturday, were cancelled as has this Saturday?s friendly and all other future social events and meetings of other local organisations who regularly meet there.
    The club?s Vice Chairman, Bernard Wakelin, told ThameNews.Net: ?We had a meeting with Thame Town council and a Committee meeting after that to decide which road we would take. At a further meeting we looked at three offers of ground sharing and since then a fourth offer has come in. On Tuesday night the club secretary had a meeting with Aylesbury United and a decision will be taken at a meeting tonight (Thursday) whether or not we take this option, which is the one that makes most sense because of ease of travelling.
    ?We have been allowed into the site today to clear out all our kit and other belongings, but, apart from being allowed in next Thursday, we are basically locked out as from today.?

  • Thame Leisure Centre Short-listed For Award

    THAME Leisure Centre, which is managed by SOLL Leisure, has been short-listed to the final three sites in the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) Flame Award for the Leisure Centre of the Year.
    The other two sites short-listed are Beau Sejour in Guernsey and Hillsborough in Sheffield. Thame was one of 23 leisure centres that were long-listed as part of Stage 1 and now moves on to Stage 2 of the process.

    Stuart Henshaw, Managing Director of SOLL Leisure, said: “we are delighted to reach the final stages of this prestigious award. Staff at the centre must be congratulated on their commitment to delivering good customer service complimenting the quality facilities and services available at the site”.
    Facilities entering this national award are leisure centres with in-house or contracted management. The focus of this award is on health and fitness operators and takes into consideration the customer/member and staff experience within the centre.

    Visit www.soll-leisure.co.uk