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.