Car parks by Abingdon Bridge Tow Path in Bridge Street flooded in 2003. Picture: Andy Cooper DISRUPTION is likely to hamper drivers who use Abingdon Bridge as critical work to fix one of its arches could take more than a year.
Oxfordshire County Council confirmed that it needs to repair a loose stone there, which makes the bridge unsafe . This means that the temporary traffic signals erected near the Nags Head pub to control one-way traffic on the road, which passes over the bridge, will remain in place until the work is finally completed. It comes despite criticism from residents who say that it causes heavy congestion during peak-hours.
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They fear they could be next, at a moments notice, just walking down the street.
“I would say it s been really hard to walk into the school and just be like in the area cause like who s going to go next, junior Brittany Brown said.
We ll hear about the pain from a mom who’s been there and said it’s sad to see the place she calls home lose more teenagers to gun violence.
“My heart breaks to know another child as lost their life to gun violence,” Zenobia Dobson said.
In an attempt to take back their streets, community leaders are speaking up on a gang problem. They said things are getting increasingly worse.
A man wanted for murder in Elmira is in custody following a chase through New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania that left police cars smashed and a Pennsylvania Trooper injured.
Lawrence Williams of Elmira, who is a suspect in the April murder of another Elmira man, is being held in Bradford County after fleeing authorities through Chemung, Bradford and Wyoming Counties on Friday, May 14.
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Pennsylvania State Police in Towanda say the pursuit began Friday in Elmira City at around 12:30 a.m. and traveled through Bradford County and into Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.
Authorities say the pursuit, that ended in Wyoming County with Williams being taken into custody, led to the injury of one Pennsylvania State Trooper involved in a marked police vehicle crash. Elmira media (WETM-TV) also shows a photo of what appears to be a New York State Police car with front-end damage.
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