Thame.net

Blog

  • Phoenix Trail Temporary Diversion

    WORK is to begin today to repair the cracked surface on part of the Phoenix Trail.
    The section between Penn Farm and Grove Hill Farm (Towersey) will be closed from today and the trail will be diverted down farm drives onto Manor Road, then back onto the trail.
    The work is to be carried out by SUSTRANS and is expected to take about a week.

    PHOTO: Town Cllr, Lionel Morbey and Cathy Gaulter, both regular users of the Phoenix Trail, try out a Dutch shopping bike at the culmination of a bike ride from Oxford to Cambridge recently.
    The ride was organised by SUSTRANS to celebrate 10,000 miles of National Cycle Way, much of it built over the last ten years since the organisation received funding from the National Lottery.

  • Hospital Update

    THE Vale Of Aylesbury Primary Care Trust, told ThameNews.Net today that it is still pursuing a business case for the development of the current hospital site to a 24 bed hospital.
    This, they say, will be submitted to Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority for approval in the near future.

    Correction: The report by the Chairman of the League of Friends of Thame Community Hospital, quoted in Friday’s news about the hospital, was in fact her 2004 report and not 2005.

  • Rugby – Chippenham 6 – Chinnor 20

    ALTHOUGH the result indicated a comfortable win for Chinor, this was never the case.
    They had to defend for long periods in the second half
    against a team that refused to give-up. Heavy rain both during the warm-up and the game itself made for a slippery surface and a greasy ball which made
    handling quite difficult. Playing into the wind, Chinnor were first on the score-sheet after 20 minutes when a well executed blind side move put Eric
    Brown away. He still had much to do, but with a hand-off and an arching run, he made it into corner.He scored his second in similar circumstances some
    minutes later only on this occasion he took the ball some 30 metres out but, with a powerful run, managed to reach the line.
    Chippenham struck back with two penalties from fly-half James Gibson to give an interval score of
    10pts to 6 in Chinnor’s favour.

    Chinnor had the wind at their backs in the second half and increased their lead within a minute of the restart. A long kick down-field by fly-half Richard Williams reached Chippenham’s left-wing Champion who
    threw a pass inside to no-one in particular which allowed Williams to gather the ball and score the simplest of tries. The conversion and a penalty from
    Williams completed the scoring. Chippenham did come back strongly with their forwards keeping possession by picking up and driving forward but when they
    spun it wide they did not pose that much danger. Chinnor could have, and should have used the wind to their advantage by kicking for territory. However it was an indication of their confidence that they tried to keep the ball in hand.

    For Chinnor Eric Brown once again showed what an excellent finisher he is. He is now top try scorer in the league. Darren Oxley had another influential game in the centre with the team well lead by Paul Hennessy.

  • Walking With Farmers (Contributed)

    A GROUP of privately-owned working farms across south-east England will open their gates to the public this autumn in a bid to “re-connect people to the land.”

    Ten farms in Hampshire, East and West Sussex, Isle of Wight, Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and parts of Greater London have agreed to host visitors on free guided walking tours around their pastures, cattle sheds, animal pens, barns and workshops as part of the Rural Development Service’s Regional Farm Demonstration Programme.

    The farm tours have been made possible by Tourism South East, the region’s strategic tourism body, and grants of around

  • Thame Hospital ‘In Limbo’ To Receive Bequest

    THAME Community Hospital, whose future has been described as being ‘in limbo,’ is to receive a substantial bequest from a Thame resident who died earlier in the year.
    Well-known and long-time resident, Mr Arthur Letts,who lived at The Crook, Lower High Street, had divided his estate between two Thame charities, one of them being the Thame Community Hospital, to which he left over

  • News Shorts

    THAME Town Touncil are looking into the possibility of re-using old graves, between 50 and 100 years old, as space in the church yard of St Mary’s church is running out.

    THE Town Council have recommended that planning permission for a 0.914M wicket style wooden fence to the front boundary of a house in Montrose Way, be rejected.
    Councillors feel that such a fence might set a precident on the Lee Park estate which was originally designed with open plan frontages.

    A MINUTES silence was held prior to the Town Council’s meeting on Tuesday evening, in sympathy with all those involved in the tragic death of 14 year-old Chloe Owens, of Haddenham, last Friday.
    Chloe’s funeral will be held next Tuesday, October 11, at 4pm, at Haddenham Parish Church.

    THE District council has begun a consultation on how best to go about providing free, local bus travel to elderly and disabled people.
    This follows an announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in March, that such free travel would be made available throughout England.
    Such a change will put pressures on the district council’s concessionary fares budget and so one of the options open to it is to change the eligibility for travel tokens, providing tokens only to those who most need them.

    THIS week’s episode of Midsommer Murders includes shots filmed around Thame, including Honour’s Estate Agents,
    and Broadcastle Bank in the High Street.

  • Police Information Needed

    THAME police would like to hear from anyone with information about the following crimes committed recently:-
    Wednesday, October 5, between 9.45am and 6pm, Elms Road, Thame; front off-side window of a car smashed and the glove box searched.

    Wednesday, Sept 28/Thurs 29, between 7pm and 8am, Fridays Lane, Wheatley; a bird bath stolen from front garden.

    Tuesday Sept 27/Wed 28, between 7pm and 8am, Thame Road, Little Milton, a car stolen.

    Contact: The Police Enquiry Line 0845 850 5505, or Crime Stoppers, anonymously on: 0800 555111

  • Criminal History Night Invitation

    THE local policeman who found the Great Train Robbers? hideout, will be giving a talk about the infamous crime at a special police night this weekend.

    Members of the public are invited to hear retired Thames Valley constable, John Woolley, who was the village bobby in Brill at the time, tell the story of his involvement in the crime, one of the most infamous robberies in British history.

    Thames Valley roads policing officers will also be on hand, with a police motorcycle, speed detection van and traffic patrol car to talk to people about their jobs and show them their vehicles.

    The Great Train Robbery was the name given to the train robbery that was committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire.

    The Royal Mail’s Glasgow to London travelling post office (TPO) train was stopped by tampered signals. The 15-member gang, led by Bruce Reynolds and including Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards, got away with

  • Council Not Happy With New Shop Signs

    THAME Town councillors are not happy with the new, modern replacement signage that recently went up in the three Co-op shops in Thame.
    The have asked South Oxfordshire District Council’s Conservation Officer to look into their suitabilty in a historic, market town.

  • TLC Charity Open Day For ‘Gadget’

    Thame Leisure centre are hosting a charity Open Day from which the proceeds raised will be donated to the Martin Gadd Charity and the Brain Wave children?s charities.
    Martin, known to his friends as ‘Gadget’ was paralysed from the waist down after a fall whilst on a night out with friends.
    The programme of events, designed for the whole family, includes: –