A plea to local businesses to help fund drugs education in primary schools is being made.

The money will go to Rotary Club-sponsored Life Education Centres, which tour primary schools countywide.

A mobile bus will visit Thame for the first time on Tuesday.

Chinnor schools and local councillors, school governors and members of the business community will look around the travelling classroom.

Thame Rotary president Des Wright has written to businesses asking them to contribute to a new mobile classroom.

He has told businessmen that the Life Education Centres focus on giving children the chance to understand their bodies and make healthy choices about both legal and illegal substances.

Mr Wright said the education centres can help in the fight to cut the 70 per cent of thefts and break-ins considered to be drug-related.

He added smoking and drink-related problems also plague businesses and this could help end those issues.

He said: "Education like this benefits the children first of all, but has an effect on the whole community.'