{"id":14917,"date":"2015-09-26T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14917"},"modified":"2015-09-26T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T22:10:14","slug":"splash-of-pink-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14917","title":{"rendered":"Splash of Pink Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAbingdon has been turning pink in preparation for the annual Splash of Pink Day organised by Against Breast Cancer<\/a> – an Abingdon based charity. <\/p>\n

Shops joined in by competing in the shop window competition…
\nThird place went to Rosie’s Tea room,
\nSecond place to Robert Stanley,<\/p>\n

The winner’s award was presented at the end of a day of activities on the Market Place.
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\nAs always, the cup cake stall was very popular, as was the design a cup-cake stall.
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\nThe weather could not have been nicer in late September. You could feel the force at times, and people were just throwing \u00a35 and \u00a310 notes into the collecting buckets.
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\nOtto (pictured above), and Harvey, search dogs from Buckinghamshire<\/a>, came to let people know that they are trained to locate missing persons.<\/p>\n

There was music from the group BMW, Abingdon Operatic, Abbey Sax, and Abingdon Community Choir.
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\nEntertainment also included Ashnah Tribal belly dancers …
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\nTheFlyin’ Aces street dancers, Strawberry Fayre Majorettes …
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\nand Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris dancers. There were also appearances from some well known cartoon characters who look much bigger in real life.
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