A reward of £2,000 is being offered for the return of a bronze statue stolen from a town centre fountain.

Have you seen it? The statue stolen from Thame Thame town council is putting up the money, which will be paid if the statue - pictured here when it was officially unveiled in 1992 - is returned undamaged.

If it is not returned, the council may replace it with a cheaper replica.

The statue of a boy with a fish was sculpted by Faith Winter and replaced a similar bronze stolen several years earlier.

The new one was on the fountain in Upper High Street and secured with poles set into concrete.

But it was stolen just before Christmas and Thame police are still investigating.

Thame parks committee chairman Mary Stiles said: "We thought it was vandal-proof, but we were wrong. Someone must have seen something when it was stolen perhaps this reward will help jog some memories.

"But I fear it may well have been stolen to order, or have been melted down for the metal."

Committee member Peter Cockayne thought that aiming floodlights at the statue may have attracted the wrong sort of attention to it.

Email us now if you have any clues to the statue's whereabouts.