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Rethink your bird feeding
November 25, 2019
The RSPB is reminding Christmas dinner chefs not to put the cooking fat from their festive roast out for garden birds as the greasy mixture can damage their feathers. Christmas is a time for feasting and living off the fat of the land, not least for garden birds. But doing so literally for our feathered […]
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Festival’s green theme
August 12, 2019
This year’s Waterside Festival is sponsored by Aylesbury Garden Town and designed to champion their vision of the canalside public space at the heart of Aylesbury town centre. Part of Aylesbury Garden Town’s ethos is ensuring that quality green spaces are maintained and Waterside Festival, on Saturday 14 September from 11am-5.30pm, will be celebrating all that […]
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Celebrating India
May 21, 2019
Oxfordshire Bicester Village welcomed VIP guests and press to the launch of ‘Celebrating India’, an exciting new pop-up showcasing designers changing the face of modern Indian. Designers include Manish Arora, Pippa Small, Beulah, Behno, Huemn, Dhruv Kapoor, Kanika Goyal label, Kashmir Loom, Khosla Jani, SZ Blockprints, Tada & Toy and Tiipoi. The boutique is part […]
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Vegan author does the business
January 21, 2018
A Buckinghamshire New University graduate from Thame is on a mission to change perceptions of vegan food and has written a cookbook with 34 recipes to appeal to people who follow the diet. Sarah Hrycyk, 21, of Maple Road, Thame, graduated from the University in High Wycombe last year and says her eBook, All Vegan, […]
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Rescue that pumpkin
October 25, 2017
Halloween has become our third biggest holiday event after Christmas and Easter – and the second biggest party night after New Year’s Eve – but it’s a rather scary Halloween fact that a quarter of all pumpkins bought for the event will end up in the bin once the party’s over – that’s 18,000 tonnes […]
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Spotlight on small business
November 9, 2016
The Small Business Saturday promotional tour bus is travelling through the UK and visits Thame on Monday November 14th, as part of its journey that began in Aberdeen (October 24th) and ends in Bournemouth (November 25th). Using the theme ‘Small Business, Big Difference’, the bus tour aims to promote Small Business Saturday, the annual campaign […]
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