Members of the local Fire Brigade and Ambulance service were training with the Hazardous Area Response Team at Abingdon weir yesterday. Thanks to Russ for sending the picture. The Hazardous Area Response Team are a specialist team of Ambulance staff who have been trained to provide life-saving medical care in hostile environments.
Mr Tim Oates, from North Abingdon, brought a neighbour to Abingdon Community Hospital, but could not find a parking place and so parked at the trading estate, nearby. Other people have parked on the grass and possibly in spaces allotted to Marcham Road Health Centre – alongside.
There is a petition in the waiting room at Marcham Road Health Centre asking for the organisation running the hospital (namely Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust) to find a solution to the parking problems so that people going to the Health Centre can use their alloted parking places.
It is good to see the Community Hospital thriving even if it has become a victim of its own success.