Guide Dogs Week is the annual fundraising, awareness building week which runs from 4 to 12 October.

Guide Dogs were out in number this morning in Abingdon Town Centre, despite the rain. The one on the left was injured a couple of days ago by a bicycle on a shared walkway. Such accidents are becoming more common, and the owners wanted people to be aware that cycles are not always heard until it is too late.

Also there is a campaign to get talking buses, ones that announce the stops, so that visually impaired people don’t miss their stop.

Yesterday saw the 2014 Splash of Pink Day in Abingdon Town Centre – put on by Against Breast Cancer Charity who have offices in the Abingdon Science Park.

Against Breast Cancer fund research to prevent secondary spread, increase survival and ultimately discover a vaccine to prevent Breast Cancer.

As well as bringing The Abingdon Community Choir to the Market Place, wearing a number of shades of pink,

a dozen or so shops decorated their windows in pink with pink balloons.

The first Splash in Pink day in Abingdon was in 2009, and it has become part of the annual calendar.