Thame news in brief

LOCAL ELECTIONS, SNOW, KEBABS AND MORE…Want to become a Thame Town Councillor? Town Councillors will be making themselves available nearer May, 2019, when local elections will be taking place for Thame Town Council. The council wants ‘new blood’ and particularly younger people to stand for election as town councillors.

Publicity and leaflets will be available too, explaining what prospective councillors will be committing themselves to, and how to go about standing.

HEROES in the snow – Few of us realise just how magnificently the town council’s Maintenance team responded to last week’s snow fall. Despite clearing snow from Thame’s streets being the responsibility of Oxfordshire County Council, OCC Highways team only cleared the High Street. One member of TTC’s Maintenance team, realising from weather forecasts that the conditions in the town were likely to be seriously impacted by the snow, arrived at the council’s depot at 6am in the morning to prepare the council’s snow plough.

Throughout the day, the mainenance team cleared as many of Thame’s residential roads as they could, allowing cars and people to exit and access many of the town’s streets to go about their daily lives. These unsung workers deserve our thanks and appreciation.

THAME’S Atalay’s Kebab Van is once again up for ‘kebab van of the year’ in the British Kebab Awards 2019.

Resul Atalay and his two sons, Jason and Joshua, whose state-of-the art kebab van is based in the Upper High Street, will be hoping to retain the coveted crown for the third time in a row! To vote for Atalay’s, visit the British Kebab Awards website HERE

HOT NEWS! Atalay’s Chicken Shop, in Swan Walk, Thame, will be opening soon – a new venture for the Atalay family and, if it’s run to the same exacting standards of produce and service as the kebab van is, it’s bound to be the best Chicken shop for miles around!

THE date for this year’s Thame Christmas Lights switch-on will revert to the first Friday in December, and will be held on December 6, 2019.

The town council has decided that the town’s Christmas lights need a fresh new look and will be going out to re-tender for a new set of lights.

TOWN Councillors are still waiting for a report from Thames Valley Police, following complaints and a video claiming to show illegal practices by the Kimblewick Hunt. The council says it will wait for the hunt to apply to the council to hold the hunt’s usual town centre meet on New Year’s Day, by which time it hopes to have enough information to make a decision.