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  • Interview With Labour Parliamentary Candidate

    KALEEM Saeed, the Labour Party Parliamentary candidate for the Thame, was recently interviewed by Freelance Journalist, Nicolas Newman.
    To find out Kaleem’s views on several issues and to read his and the County manifestos, follow this link

  • Local Author Offers Creative Writing Advice

    VALERIE Blumenthal, who lives in a small village near Thame, is the well-known author of eight novels that have been widely translated, including
    Saturday’s Child, which has sold more than half a million copies.
    She has also written short stories for ‘YOU’ magazine, the Mail on Sunday, as well as many features for the Oxford Times. She will be bringing her expertise, encouragement and enthusiasm to Thame Adult Learning this summer term when she will be running a ten week course on Creative Writing, called ‘Focussing on Fiction’. The course starts on Thursday, April 21, from 12.45 to 2.45pm. Why not come along and explore the creativity within you?
    To book or for more details please call Thame Adult Learning on 01844 213400
    or go to http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/adultcommlearn and click on the link
    to course database.

  • Chinnor Robery Appeal

    THE police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery at Unwins off-licence, Chinnor, yesterday, March 31.
    At around 8.30pm, a man entered the shop on Thame Road. As he went to buy a chocolate bar, he told the woman shop assistant he had a gun in his bag and grabbed cash from the till.
    DC Shane Harrison, of Didcot CID, said: ?The man had been in to the shop earlier and bought a paper. I appeal to anyone who knows this man or saw him running away from the shop at around this time of the evening to contact police immediately.?
    The man is white, aged between 40 and 45 years-old and of slim build. He had no front teeth and was wearing a woolly hat.
    Anyone with information that could assist police inquiries is urged to contact DC Harrison at Didcot police station, via 0845 8 505 505. If you don?t want to speak to police and don?t want to leave your name, contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

  • Thame Burglary Appeal

    THAME police are seeking information about a burglary that took place in Thame, during the early hours of last Saturday, March 23.
    Between 2am and 5am, thieves entered a rear door of a house in Chinnor Road, Thame, and stole property. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the police via the Enquiry line 08458505505, or anonymously on 0800 555111.

  • Theft From Car

    THE rear, driver’s side window of a Citroen car was smashed in Wellington Street, Thame, last Wednesday, March 30, and property stolen from inside.
    The police would like to hear from anyone with any information about this incident, which occurred between 7.30pm and 8 pm.
    Contact either the Police Enquiry Line 0845 8505505, or Crimestoppers anonymously, 0800 555111.

  • Memorial Charity Football Match Exceeds Expectations

    THE third, annual Memorial football match, played in memory of keen footballer, Richard Wheeler, raised over

  • Thame Business For Sale

    WINDOW and Office Cleaning business in Thame area; With on-going contracts – To be sold as a going concern. Excellent annual turnover. For further details contact 01844 218833

  • Pub Watch Conference

    The future of Pubwatch will be discussed at a special conference in High Wycombe next Wednesday,April 6.

    The conference, called ?Pubwatch: The Future?, has been organised to address issues raised by the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003.
    The new legislation has introduced significant changes to the way premises that sell and supply alcohol to the public are licensed.

    The conference will provide a forum to examine, debate and clarify issues surrounding the new legislation, so people in the industry can work in partnership to put successful strategies in place for implementing and conforming to the requirements of the new law. It will also include workshops on topics such as forming a Pubwatch, designed to encourage non members to join.

    Representatives from Thames Valley Police, National Pubwatch, The Home Office and Yates pub company will all be present and some will address the conference.

    Speakers include Justice of the Peace Phil Garside, who will give a talk about exclusion orders; Simon Leach from the Home Office, who will speak about an alcohol misuse enforcement programme and Thames Valley Police Assistant Chief Constable Mick Page, who is the last speaker of the day and will make some closing remarks.

    The venue for the event, which has been jointly organised by The John Grieve Centre for Policing and National Pubwatch, will be The John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in High Wycombe, from 10am to 4.15pm.

  • Emergency Planners Do It Via Satellite

    EMERGENCY Planners at Oxfordshire County Council are making plans to maintain communications via satellite in the event of a terrorist attack on local telephone exchanges.

    Learning lessons from the 9/11 attack in New York when communications were lost after masts were destroyed in the blasts, the County Council?s Emergency Planning team is working with local firms, Calkin Communications of Tackley and eXcelerate Technology LTD to ensure uninterrupted communications.

    Special equipment has been installed on a vehicle used by emergency planners so that they can communicate by voice and email via satellite broadband if local telephone exchanges are damaged.

    Mark Calkin of Calkin Communications said: ” I am very pleased to be working on this project with my own County Council and this will be the first installation in local government.”
    John Kelly Emergency Planning Officer at Oxfordshire County Council said: “I?m very pleased that we are able to use a local firm with expertise in this field. We need to plan for a catastrophic disruption to the communications network and this equipment will give us a go-anywhere capability which will have uses outside the emergency field.

    “This new equipment will meet the preparedness duties required of us under the Civil Contingencies Act. I?m sure that this initiative will be of use in other areas of the UK to guard against failures in the landline communications system.”

  • Heavy Cold Fails To Stop Swimathon Stalwart

    GREAT Haseley’s swimming veteran, Richard Harding, has once again successfully completed the annual National Swimathon, sponsored by Butlins.
    71 year-old Richard swam the full 5000 metres in just over two hours, last Saturday, March 19, despite having been in bed with a heavy cold until a day or two before. He raised over