{"id":851,"date":"2008-02-04T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/02\/04\/bee-and-lark-have-flown\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T00:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:57:00","slug":"bee-and-lark-have-flown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Bee and Lark have flown …."},"content":{"rendered":"


The Busy Bee has blown

The Eben Lark has flown.<\/p>\n

Leaving just a memory<\/p>\n

And other news stories from last week, some of which won’t be news to everyone but here they are anyway:<\/p>\n

The smoke from a big petrol station fire at Sutton Courtney could be seen from miles around including, I guess, Abingdon. (I missed that one completely)<\/p>\n

Some representatives from Didcot Town Council came to watch the proceedings at Abingdon Town Council. They were reconsidering – now their town is getting far grander – whether to wear traditional gowns at town council meetings like Abingdon. Maybe we should return the visit to look at how to turn a town around. Didcot started to turn it around when nPower paid for them to have a town centre manager as recompense for the gas powered Didcot B power station. But they have also had public money pumped in – paid for by the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Halcrow, the consultants who helped design the AbITs<\/a> traffic system, were supposed to return to do another study to report on the actual operation of the system, but this may be overtaken by a local initiative: some town centre businesses may try to undertake an independent report after circulating a petition.<\/p>\n

The Mayor signed the Nottingham Declaration<\/a> on climate change.<\/p>\n

The Wootton Road post office is on the list of those destined for possible closure, as is the one at Dalton Barracks. Sounds a bit of a blow for the recently returned soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Busy Bee has blownThe Eben Lark has flown. Leaving just a memory And other news stories from last week, some of which won’t be news to everyone but here they are anyway: The smoke from a big petrol station fire at Sutton Courtney could be seen from miles around including, I guess, Abingdon. (I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}