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  • Firefighters Battle To Save Thatched Cottage

    OVER 80 fire fighters, including two crews from Thame, spent a long and difficult night saving a thatched cottage from total distruction.
    Fire crews arrived within five minutes of the alarm being raised by the owner of the cottage in Tetsworth near Thame.
    Throughout the night villages used hot water to defrost pumps and provided the fire fighters with hot coffee and soup. Eventually, by making a trench across the thatched roof, the fire was brought under control and 50% of the roof and all the householders possessions were saved.

    Phote for illustrative purposes only, Courtesy of Thatched Owners Insurance Service

  • New Regs For Employees Claiming Mileage (Contributed)

    IN essence, employers WILL require fuel receipts for mileage claims in future, even if the claim is on a pence per mile basis.
    Business Brief 22/05, issued by HMRC on December 1, 2005, describes the new arrangements for recovery of VAT by businesses on road fuel purchased by their employees on their behalf.
    Essentially, employers will be able to continue to treat as input tax the VAT incurred by their employees on fuel costs that are subsequently reimbursed by the employer, either on the basis of actual cost of the fuel or by means of a mileage allowance. However, after January 1, this year, the business must hold a VAT invoice or invoices showing sufficient VAT to cover the input tax claim. Normally, there will not be an invoice showing exactly the amount of the input VAT claimed because often some of the fuel will be used by employees for private purposes and reimbursement will usually be based on a fixed amount per mile.

    New legislation to take effect on 1 January 2006 will ensure that VAT can only be claimed where the fuel is used for business purposes and is attributable to taxable outputs. There will be a requirement to hold a VAT invoice. HMRC have confirmed that relief will not be denied on the grounds that the fuel is actually supplied to the employee and the VAT invoice is in the name of the employee and not the business.

    There will be instances when the fuel purchased within a certain period does not correspond exactly to the cost of the reimbursed business fuel. This could arise, for example, where fuel is purchased in one VAT period but is not fully used until a subsequent period. HMRC accept that some invoices may cover more than one claim and will take this into account in checking the evidence to support claims.

  • Thame Lack Killer Instinct – Report By Bob Dixon

    Score: Thame United 0 Bedworth United 2
    BEDWORTH deserved to win this game. They created more chances and looked more dangerous than the young Thame side who remain at the foot of the table after their fourth successive defeat.
    Both sides created good first half chances but were wasteful in front of goal. Bedworth had an opportunity to go ahead after 12 minutes, but Paul Searl in the Thame goal, pulled of an outstanding save from Jonathon Douglas?s well-hit shot.

    The second half was eight minutes old when Thame mounted their best attack of the game. Following a well-worked move involving Darren Moore and Alex Stuart, keeper David Clarke blocked Moore?s shot. As the ball bounced frantically around inside the area, Clarke and his defenders managed to block four goal bound shots, from various Thame players before eventually clearing the danger.
    Two minutes later Bedworth took the lead when Gilbert Cummings pulled the ball back from the by line to Benjamin Twigger, who fired home from the edge of the area. Bedworth?s second came in the 78th minute when Cummings met a corner and headed down to Douglas who knocked the ball home from close range. Bedworth were now in control and could have scored again but for another fine save from Searl and good work from Dave Hocking who cleared a shot off the line.

    Thame played with enthusiasm and fought to the final whistle, but they seem to lack both creativity and ?killer instinct? in front of goal. The welcome return of Dave Tregurtha has added more strength and much needed experience in defence.

    Thame United: Searl, Hocking, N. Rhodes, Eason, Tregurtha, A. Rhodes, Connelly, Fisher (Groves), A Stewart (Way), Moore, Hamilton (Freeman).

  • ‘Stitch & Bitch’ Craze Hits Thame

    THE latest craze to cross the Atlantic is knitting groups – but it aint nothing like your old grandma’s knitting circle!
    Founded originally in New York by Debbie Stoller, Stitch N? Bitch is a fun group for knitters who are just starting out, and those who?ve been knitting forever. Since then groups of knitters, many of them young, professional creative women, have been meeting in living rooms, cafes and even on the London Tube to knit, chat, gossip, support each other and generally put the world to rights.
    Now, Stitch and Bitch has come to Thame; to the Six Bells pub in fact. The idea to form a group in Thame was that of teacher, artist, Thame Twinner and prodigious knitter,Jeanette Matelot of High Street, Thame.
    The group’s first meeting – working title, The Thame Twin-sets, is tomorrow evening, Tuesday, January 24, at 8pm. Anyone, female or male, who would like to swap patterns, learn to knit, share design ideas and spend a relaxing, fun evening, is welcome to attend.

    NB Research has shown that knitting is good for you. In the states, the calming, therapeutic qualities of knitting has been recognised in prisons where they teach knitting to in-mates as part of Anger Management!

    Knitting has seen a great renaissance in recent years, party influenced by celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder and Julia Roberts who have all been seen clicking away as an antidote to the stresses and strains of life in the spotlight.

    So, go along to the Six Bells, High Street, tomorrow at 8pm and ‘spin a yarn’, gossip, chat and generally share in a great social event.

    Photo: Courtesy of the BBC

  • Restricted Access At Little Milton

    Traffic will be restricted to single lane on the Thame Road and Chilton View at Little Milton, between January 12 and January 31, whilst cable installation takes place.

  • Shopping Surprise For Redundant Memec Employer

    A Man who was recently made redundant from Memec in Thame, has won

  • Thame Streets To be Cleansed Of Chewing Gum

    THE deep cleansing of Thame’s pavements, including the removal of chewing gum, is to be carried out this week.
    Weather permitting, the operation of using high pressure water hoses by specialist contractors, will be carried out in the town centre on Sunday, January 22 and Monday, January 23.
    The cost is in the region of

  • Thame Museum Delays Opening

    THAME museum, which was due to open this Easter, will now probably not open until later in the year.
    The Executive of Thame Museum Trust have decided that the opening needs to be postponed because of delays in alterations to the building and extended delivery times of essential items.
    The Chairman of the Trust, David Bretherton, said:”It is unfortunate that we have had to delay the opening of the museum but I am certain that we will provide a museim that will be a great asset to the town and that the wait will be well worthwhile.”

    The museum building was formerly the old Court House for Thame, and was purchased by the town council at a cost of

  • Digger Rams Bank In Raid

    THE High Street in Princes Risborough has been blocked to traffic while police continue to investigate a ram raid at a local bank, where thieves used a digger to break in.
    Residents in the High Street were awoken around 4am this morning by loud crashing sounds and breaking glass.
    One witness, Denise Simmons, who lives above a near by shop, told ThameNews.Net:”I thought the noise was the brewery delivering barrels to the pub next door to us but my partner, Gary, thought it was too early in the morning for that. We then went to our front window and looked out and saw the digger, with its engine still running, and the damage it had done. We called the police straight away and they arrived within five minutes.
    “I’s a shame we haven’t got CCTV in the town; we could certainly do with it. We have a lot of trouble with youngsters racing up and down the High Street at night and the police seem unable to do anything about it,” she added.
    However, it is understood that Wainwright’s the shoe shop opposite the bank, do have a surveillance camera which has captured the digger on film, and the manager of the shop has handed it to the police.
    A structural survey is currently being carried out of the bank building to establish how safe the building is.
    The

  • Anonymous Hero Resuscitates Elderly Man

    AN elderly man collapsed on Monday, while waiting to have his hair cut in The Barber Shop Group’s salon in North Street, Thame.
    Another customer, who was having his hair cut at the same time, promptly leapt from his chair and began CPR on the unconscious man.
    By the time a fire engine, as part of the Co-responder scheme, arrived on the scene, the man had come round and was later able to return home.
    The shop manager told ThameNews.Net that the customer did not leave a name and that the elderly man returned the next day for his hair cut.