Local news: Didcot
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UKRI invests £27.6m from Faraday Battery Challenge in future of battery technology
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced a further investment of £27.6m from the Faraday Battery Challenge to support collaborative R&D projects.
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Didcot Powerhouse 2022 Impact Report launch
Didcot Powerhouse Fund donors, grant recipients and team are meeting on 02 February to share the successful impact and progress made by grant recipients of the Fund in its first year of operation.
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Planning decisions on HIF projects due “in the next couple of months”
The two major road projects, designed to support more than 30,000 new homes in Oxfordshire, have divided opinion and proved challenging to deliver amid budgetary concerns.
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Car parking fees in South Oxfordshire set to increase this spring
Parking fees in car parks run by South Oxfordshire District Council, in Didcot, Goring, Henley, Thame, and Wallingford will increase from 01 April.
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Local actors get stuck into rehearsals of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Cornerstone Didcot.
The successful auditionees have been split into two teams for the production, which starts on 17 December. The teams, aptly named ‘Team Marley’ and ‘Team Scrooge’, will take turns performing throughout the run.
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Talented young people from Didcot to star in A Christmas Carol at Cornerstone
In a reinvention of a classic story with world-class puppetry from the award-winning visual theatre company, Smoking Apples, the audience is invited to join Mr Scrooge as he travels through time to learn the true meaning of Christmas.
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No more extra funds to see through Didcot’s HIF1 project
Measures will be taken to manage costs rather than find extra money if inflation further affects the major new roads project in Didcot.
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Parking ban on major Didcot road to help keep cycle lanes free
The council has approved proposals for double yellow lines running the length of Wantage Road in Didcot in a bid to stop people from parking in the cycle lanes.
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Go-ahead for the next phase of the HIF1 Didcot road plan
The Didcot Garden Town housing infrastructure programme is a combination of four projects to ensure there is the capacity to connect 12,000 houses set to be built to the south of Oxford.
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Cornerstone showcases art inspired by nature for Oxfordshire Artweeks
Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot is celebrating Oxfordshire Artweeks 40th anniversary by hosting an exciting exhibition by two local artists.
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New artwork highlights railways’ role in the standardisation of time
Artist Savinder Bual has created a film installation which will go on show at Didcot Railway Centre before being streamed online.
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Have your say on a new technology park development in Didcot Garden Town
Hill Farm in Appleford and near Didcot is the site of a proposed Local Development Order (LDO) which local planning authorities use to set out the overall design of a site.