The view through a gap in the hedge at the back of Long Alley almshouses.

Today members of the Bomb Disposal Regiment, based at Vauxhall Barracks, Didcot, will be pulling a Bomb disposal truck from Abingdon to Didcot to raise money for the family of Gaz O’Donell, killed in action in Afghanistan last September. He has been awarded the George Medal twice.

Read more about him from the army website .

He is from Edinburgh.

Twenty years ago, Southern Town Park was a flat empty area with a couple of wonky swings, a series of methane outlet pipes, and the sense that you had gone beyond the end of the interesting world.

It has been transformed since then. Better playground equipment was added some years ago, and trees and bushes planted – and left to grow naturally.

Now the Vale of White Horse District Council are adding more play equipment.

The official opening of the new play equipment is planned for the 25th July – the start of the school holidays.

That does not to stop it being used before then.

Many hundreds of MGs from around the UK and beyond converge on Abingdon to revisit their place of manufacture, and to view the MG exhibition at the County Hall Museum. This particular group are from Milton Keynes in nearby Buckinghamshire. If you ask what most MGs want in their lives, the answer could well be “MG Go Home.“