THE third, annual football match, in memory of a young Thame father who died of a heart attack, will take place at Thame United’s ground on Good Friday.
The Richard Wheeler Memorial Trust was set up two years ago to honour the life of Richard Wheeler, who tragically lost his life on Good Friday 2002.
The aim of the Memorial, set up by Richard’s friends, has been to raise money each year for the British Heart Foundation and to date, it has successfully donated
Author: Sonja Francis
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Memorial Football Match To Save Lives
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Homeware and Hardware Chain Coming To Thame
A LARGE Chain of Kitchen, Home, DIY and Gardenware stores is to move in to the shop recently occupied by Cooks Chemist in the High Street, which recently closed.
The mult-million pound concern, Robert Dyas sells over the internet, as well as having branches in towns like Henley, High Wycomber and more recently, Didcot’s new Orchard Centre.
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Thame Butcher’s Plan Changes Fail To Impress Council
DESPITE submitting amendments, Newitts, the butchers’retrospective plans for additional plant and equipment at the rear of their premises in the High Street have been rejected by Thame Town Council.
Newitt’s have been the subject of much criticism from both neighbours, the council and the Thame Conservation Area Advisory Committee, because of noise levels, concerns over access and what the town council called “Creeping industrialisation within a Conservation Area.”
The company itself has told the town council that its expansion and diversification plans are vital for its continuing survival.
South Oxford District Council’s Planning Committee will make the final decision as to the future of Newitt’s expansion plans, and expect to decide by March 31. -
Montesson Scholars’s To Visit Lord Bill’s
TEACHERS and sixth formers from a Secondary school near Thame’s twin town, Montesson, in France, will be visiting Thame at the end of March.
The French visitors, from Pierres Vivant school will be staying with host families in Thame, between Wednesday, March 30 and April 3.
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Ex Lord Bill’s Composer
FAMOUS music television presenter and composer of Tv theme tunes, Howard Goodall, will be dropping in on the County Music Service’s Youth Regional Festival, on March 19.
Howard is an ex-pupil of Lord Williams’s School, Thame, where he learnt with the County Music Service and went on to compose, among other things, the Blackadder theme and that of The Vicar of Dibley.
Howard will be dropping in during the afternoon, which will be part of a month-long festival of events starting on Saturday, March 5, to celebrate the official opening of its new premises at Bayards Hill primary school in Barton.
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Theft From Thame Cattle Market
THAME Police are appealing for witnesses after an audacious theft from Thame Cattle Market last Thursday, February 24.
Offenders drove into the yard sometime between 1pm-1.30pm and stole three industrial pressure washers.
Two blue Leopard, single-phase pressure washers, each worth -
A Red Book From A Well Read Volunteer
IT’S Red Nose Day on Friday, March 11, and the Oxfam Book Shop in Thame, has gone all red!
To get your official Red Nose and a read book from a red volunteer, visit the shop in Cornmarket, Thame, and help Comic Relief and Oxfam find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering in Africa and the UK. -
Website For Thame Tangalle Project
THAME For Tangalle, which was set up for raise money to help rebuilt a hospital in the area devasted by the Boxing Day tsunami, now has a website.
www.thamefortangalle.nildram.co.uk
gives lots of up to date information about the project both here and in Tangalle. There are photos of the current state of the hospital and fund raising efforts to date. Anyone who donates to the project can have a link from the website if they wish.
Nina Oakman,from Thame, who set up the appeal after her son and daughter-in-law were taken in by a local family in Tangalle when they escaped the tsunami, told ThameNews: “We are going to contact the major businesses in Thame, personally, with a letter detailing what we are trying to achieve and people are beginning to recognise the name of the project which is great.
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Money Approved For Thame
THE money for the installation and maintenance of CCTV for Thame town centre, has been approved by South Oxfordshire District Council.
The cameras should be up and running in time for Christmas.
The District Council’s Capital Budget plans also include money for spy-cameras to help catch illegal fly-tippers. -
‘Please Come Back’ Say Tsunami Victims
A THAME Travel Agent has returned from Thailand with a message from the people of Phuket who were badly hit by the Boxing Day tsunami.
?Please, please come back to visit us. Yes, some of us were badly affected by the disaster but we are not sad. Our lives go on and we must make a living.?
Bryony Hordern, of Tickets Anywhere, was among a group of Travel Agents invited by the Thai Tourist Office to see for themselves that, contrary to popular belief, only a couple of places in Thailand were affected but the majority of resorts were not, and that the country desperately needs tourists to come back to their country which is open for normal business.
Bryony told Thame.Net: ?Talking to people out there, I was made aware that they are very proud and even those who lost people are not sad because they are Buddhists and believe that the spirit lives on.
? In the areas that were effected, many of the beaches are better than they were because all the rubbish was washed away, and people who are waiters etc, have become builders and set about repairing much of the damage.
?There is no social security in these places and so they desperately need the tourists to go back.
?Not going back to Thailand because of the damage to a few places, is like not going to Cornwall because of the flooding in Boscastle,? she added.
Bryony pointed out that there are some fantastically good holiday deals around at the moment for such places as Thailand and Sri Lanka and urged people to consider these destinations for themselves.