This evening at the Miele Experience Centre business leaders from Abingdon met and talked with the Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable. He was also presented with a Choose Abingdon loyalty card by the the new Chairman of The Choose Abingdon Partnership, Bryan Brown. The Oxford Mail will have a fuller report including what Mr Cable learnt from his visit.
Not far from the Waitrose entrance is an area where you can charge up your electric car. The larger charger is Nissan, and the smaller one is all other makes. The cone in-between is probably there to stop petrol and diesel cars using the charging space as a parking place.
On Sunday Frank told me that work had progressed well on Abingdon Lock since my last report.
He also showed me this picture and asked if I recognised the two people second in from each end.
I knew them instantly when he told me who they were. I just hadn’t expected to see them at Abingdon Lock.
They came on on a glorious day – last September – and prepared a meal, in front of the TV cameras, for a group of people including some people from the environment agency, a man from Loose Canon Brewery who supplied the beer, and Crayfish Bob who supplied the main ingredient for the meal.
Anyway, the programme could well appear in the current Hairy Biker series which is running on Wednesdays on BBC2 at 8pm for the next four Wednesdays.
P.S. Got 2 of my facts wrong. See Crayfish Bob’s comments.
Yesterday our town centre neighbourhood police officer and PCSOs (Police Community Support Officers) were out in the rain with a mobile police station, as part of one of their monthly “Have your Say” meetings, a chance for people to discuss concerns about issues in their area. The next one is Wednesday, 20 March 2013 Time: 10:00 – 12:00.
Current priorities for the neighbourhood police in the town centre are: