Monthly Archives: December 2017

Alone at Christmas – and don’t want to be Alone

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Last of the Snowmen
There is an invitation to join the Christmas Dinner at Peachcroft Church on Christmas Day this year. Guests are welcome to arrive from 12.30 pm for a 1 pm start. The event runs until 3 pm. Assistance with transport is available. Places are Free and Booking is essential.
Last of the Snowmen
At Preston Road Community Centre this evening some ladies from the Vineyard Church, who meet every Sunday at the centre, were putting together parcels and food for people – locally – who cannot afford Christmas this year.

Last of the Snowmen

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Last of the Snowmen
There were a few piles of snow remaining this evening. At the end of Preston Road I saw one boy trying to re-make his snowman from a pile of snow alongside.

Snowmen not only had above-zero temperatures to contend with, there was also the rain.
Last of the Snowmen
It was pouring down by the time I got to Waitrose, where I heard the festive sound of Abingdon Town Band playing Christmas Carols.
Last of the Snowmen
Christmas lights could be seen above and below the road with the High Street layby underwater.

Abingdon Peace Group congratulate the 2017 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Nobel Peace Prize
The Abingdon Peace Group were in the town centre on Saturday to congratulate ICAN on winning the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. The group ICAN convinced 122 nations to sign a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons.
Nobel Peace Prize
ICAN, the international campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons, is an international coalition of groups, including survivors from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.