Thanks to Collette for this picture of an Air Ambulance taking off from Caldecott Recreation Ground in South Abingdon yesterday at 9:44am. Somebody was taken ill and the recreation ground was the nearest place to land.

The Air Ambulance may have been an exciting event for children on half term school holidays, but it was also an emergency.

Abingdon is not unfamiliar with Air Ambulances. One gave a display at The 2013 Abingdon Air and Country Show, and the show gave its profits to the Air Ambulance Trust – £9,300 in 2013.

The next Abingdon Air & Country Show is Sunday 4th May 2014 and preparations are well underway.