Posts tagged with ‘Oxfordshire’

Cornerstone opens!

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Didcot’s new arts centre, Cornerstone, has finally opened. Over the weekend of 30/31 August, the centre opened its doors to allow the public to have a look around the new building.

The centre includes an auditorium, an art gallery, a dance studio, an arts studio and two other multi-purpose rooms. Many of the rooms have large [...]

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Deregulated buses in Oxfordshire

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Letter in today’s Daily Telegraph:

Sir- I agree with Ken Livingstone (Letters, September 11).
In Boris Johnson’s native Oxfordshire, where bus services are operated by a number of different companies, I often find myself waiting for a late-running bus. In the meantime, I have to let another bus, which is going to my desired destination, pass me [...]

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Didcot: where to enjoy a long, healthy life

Sunday, 9 September 2007

It is an unglamorous town in the south of England known for its rail junction, power station and nuclear research laboratory but today, Didcot in Oxfordshire enjoys a new and enviable reputation - as the place whose residents enjoy the longest, healthiest lives in England and Wales.

Read the whole story in the Daily Telegraph.
One thing [...]

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A day of excitement in Didcot!

Sunday, 5 November 2006

On Thursday morning’s news, it emerged that protesters from Greenpeace had targeted Didcot power station in an attempt to shut down the coal-fired plant. Some of them chained themselves to a conveyor belt carrying coal into the station, while others headed for the top of the 198-metre high chimney. By abseiling from the top of [...]

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