Category: News

River pollution meeting

11th April 2024

Cllr Martin Baines attended the recent meeting on the state of our river and had this to say on the event: Last Wednesday evening, several members of Thame Town Council attended a packed meeting at the Barns Centre to discuss the polluted state of our River Thame, a meeting called by the Thame Valley Fisheries Preservation […]

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Make sure you are election ready!

11th April 2024

With only a week to go until the voter registration deadline for the Police and Crime Commissioner Election, anyone wanting to vote on 2 May must make sure they are election ready. The deadline to register to vote is midnight on 16 April. If you are not already registered to vote at your current address, […]

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Spring Covid Boosters Vaccinations at The Rycote Practice

11th April 2024

The Rycote Practice will be offering Spring Covid booster vaccinations to patients aged 75 or over and the immunosuppressed on the following dates:   Saturday 27th April  –  08:30 – 15:00 Saturday 4th May  –  08:30 – 13:00   We do not anticipate that we will be offering any other vaccination clinics. Please call the practice on […]

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All you need to know about April’s extra garden waste collection

11th April 2024

Residents who are subscribed to the District Council’s brown bin garden waste service in South Oxfordshire or Vale of White Horse can have extra garden waste collected for free, on their normal collection day only, between 15 and 26 April. You can put out a maximum of up to four additional sacks of garden waste, per […]

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Oxfordshire bus improvement plan

5th April 2024

The Oxfordshire Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) is looking to improve the local bus network and how the county council and bus companies will work in partnership to deliver them.   To help them develop and update their plan, they are keen to hear your views, particularly on areas to focus on beyond March 2025. If you […]

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Have your say about Thame’s new Community Bus

5th April 2024

Thame Town Council  are about to develop a Community Bus service and want to hear what you think is missing in our local bus services, what the barriers to you using Public Transport are, and what a Community Transport service should seek to achieve. This will be open until 9am Monday 15 April  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5ZS9PGF

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Happy Easter!

28th March 2024

We hope you all have a lovely Easter! Please be reminded that the Information Centre will be closing at 4:30pm today (Thurs 28 March) and will re open at 9:00am on Tuesday 2 April.  The Monday waste collection will be moved to Tuesday.   

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Current threats to the River Thame

28th March 2024

The River Thame is under threat from many angles including untreated sewage discharges, nutrient enrichment and predation, to mention just a few. We would like to see it returned to a clean, unpolluted river with thriving fish populations, flowing through the towns and villages between Aylesbury and Dorchester. If you are concerned about the current […]

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Have your say about Thame’s new Community Bus

28th March 2024

Thame Town Council  are about to develop a Community Bus service and want to hear what you think is missing in our local bus services, what the barriers to you using Public Transport are, and what a Community Transport service should seek to achieve. This will be open until 9am Monday 15 April  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5ZS9PGF

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A418 Thame Bypass- Carriageway Resurfacing

28th March 2024

Oxfordshire County Council will be undertaking carriageway maintenance and resurfacing work to the A418 Thame Bypass between the B4011 Services Roundabout and the A329 Rycote Lane Roundabout.   The works are programmed to start on Wednesday 15th May 2024 and are expected to last for 8 overnight shifts during the working week, subject to any bad weather conditions or […]

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