CAMPAIGNERS used the start of the cricket season to fight plans to fill Thrupp Lake at Radley with waste ash.
The Save Radley Lakes campaigners are opposing RWE npower's plans to use the lake for the dumping of the waste from Didcot Power Station. They built giant cricket stumps outside The Old Anchor Inn, in St Helen's Wharf, Abingdon, for a fundraising day held to help pay the cost of going to the High Court to fight Oxfordshire County Council's decision not to register the lakes as a village green following a public inquiry.
The campaigners said they built the stumps to represent RWE npower sponsorship of cricket's Ashes clash between England and Australia and the plans to fill the lake with waste ash.
The four-metre tall stumps are the same height as the proposed embankment around the lake.
Marjorie White, a spokesman for Save Radley Lakes, said: "The community wants npower to declare its intention not to destroy Thrupp Lake, and to take steps to restore and preserve the area for future generations. If they were to agree to that, everybody would be bowled over with joy."
The event was joined by the co-writer of the Vicar of Dibley television series, Paul Mayhew-Archer, and the vicar of Radley, Pam McKellen. A quiz night, raffle and auction raised £300 for the legal fight.
Howzat!!! Npower were stumped to find an answer to the chant written on the stumps (see picture):
No, no, no, npower no!
No, no, no ashes, no, no!!
Yes, Save Radley Lakes!!
... with apologies and thanks to Jim Trott (Trevor Peacock) from the Vicar of Dibley!
Howzat!!! Npower were stumped to find an answer to the chant written on the stumps (see picture):
No, no, no, npower no!
No, no, no ashes, no, no!!
Yes, Save Radley Lakes!!
... with apologies and thanks to Jim Trott (Trevor Peacock) from the Vicar of Dibley!
Posted by: gemini, Abingdon on 8:29pm Thu 8 May 08
I don't think anyone realised how high the bund wall would be at the side of the Sustrans Cycle way - Oxfordshire County Council ought to be ashamed of themselves for allowing NPower their planning permission and NPower ought to be ashamed of themselves for thinking no one would care.
I don't think anyone realised how high the bund wall would be at the side of the Sustrans Cycle way - Oxfordshire County Council ought to be ashamed of themselves for allowing NPower their planning permission and NPower ought to be ashamed of themselves for thinking no one would care.
Posted by: MotionMan, Abingdon on 11:34am Fri 9 May 08
I always thought that if Thrupp Lake was filled in that we would be able to look across where the old lake had been".
Are you sure that a wall of earth will be built up 4 metres high alongside the footpath? That's almost as high as a house!
I would not want to walk down there again if it was filled in, it would be most unpleasant.
I always thought that if Thrupp Lake was filled in that we would be able to look across where the old lake had been".
Are you sure that a wall of earth will be built up 4 metres high alongside the footpath? That's almost as high as a house!
I would not want to walk down there again if it was filled in, it would be most unpleasant.
Posted by: Lakesaver, Abingdon on 12:23pm Fri 9 May 08
This is a much treasured part of Abingdon; Why don't the Town Council get together with the Radley Parish Council and make more of a community effort to preserve the area.
This is a much treasured part of Abingdon; Why don't the Town Council get together with the Radley Parish Council and make more of a community effort to preserve the area.
Posted by: Lugubrious, Abingdon on 2:36pm Fri 9 May 08
For many years, like ten or twenty, it would be too dangerous a place to visit and adjacent to a public footpath and bridleway. It would be smelling of pungent things, surrounded by a high security fence and topped with barbed wire. Just go and look at the other wildernesses that Npower have created, it's sickening.
For many years, like ten or twenty, it would be too dangerous a place to visit and adjacent to a public footpath and bridleway. It would be smelling of pungent things, surrounded by a high security fence and topped with barbed wire. Just go and look at the other wildernesses that Npower have created, it's sickening.
Posted by: Fisherman, hanney on 10:05pm Fri 9 May 08
I can't understand you people one minute you complain about filling in a old gravel pit then you moan when thames want to build a state of the art resovoir in hanney
I can't understand you people one minute you complain about filling in a old gravel pit then you moan when thames want to build a state of the art resovoir in hanney
Poor old Fisherman from Hanney - He doesn't know about the fishing at Radley - but then it has always been a very well guarded secret by the Anglers. The fishing at Radley is another reason why these lakes should not be destroyed.
As for the reservoir - Thames Water was owned by RWE who own NPower - they took the profits out of the Company, sold it to some Australian Bankers, (you know the sort that get huge bonuses who thought it would make them even richer) and now it is cheaper to destroy a swathe of Oxfordshire Countryside than mend the leaky pipes in London.
So Fisherman, I hope you understand now why people like me fight for our countryside, to stop it from being destroyed by ignorant selfish greedy stock-market driven b*******s.
Three years ago nPower said they needed these lakes for their fuel ash - there was no alternative. Three years later, they have no ash leftin their stockpile - because they couldn't dump it - the had to recycle and they did. Amazing what can be done when convenience is removed and necessity becomes once again the mother of invention.
Poor old Fisherman from Hanney - He doesn't know about the fishing at Radley - but then it has always been a very well guarded secret by the Anglers. The fishing at Radley is another reason why these lakes should not be destroyed.
As for the reservoir - Thames Water was owned by RWE who own NPower - they took the profits out of the Company, sold it to some Australian Bankers, (you know the sort that get huge bonuses who thought it would make them even richer) and now it is cheaper to destroy a swathe of Oxfordshire Countryside than mend the leaky pipes in London.
So Fisherman, I hope you understand now why people like me fight for our countryside, to stop it from being destroyed by ignorant selfish greedy stock-market driven b*******s.
Three years ago nPower said they needed these lakes for their fuel ash - there was no alternative. Three years later, they have no ash leftin their stockpile - because they couldn't dump it - the had to recycle and they did. Amazing what can be done when convenience is removed and necessity becomes once again the mother of invention.
Posted by: jonny, Drabingdon,not the Lebanon on 6:56am Sun 18 May 08
whats up with you muppets ?.
whats the point of 4 meter high wickets outside the crappiest pub in Drabingdon ?.Get a bloody grip.I went to a 'save the lake meeting' 3 months ago and passed on an e-mail from Sophie Ridge at News of the world who wanted to do a story about the lakes and shame N power.was it followed up ?.you find out.What about 'Digger driesdale' from Radley eh ?.Go in the Bowyer arms and ask about his role in this.Sold them lakes through a'mate' to N power knowing what the outcome was.Now his mates got £3m livin in the 'costa del sell-out-****'
of course,out of shame'they dont want you to know all this.Stop f*cking around,looking like a bunch of single parent lesbian do-gooders outside a lame pub and do something real for christs sake.
whats up with you muppets ?.
whats the point of 4 meter high wickets outside the crappiest pub in Drabingdon ?.Get a bloody grip.I went to a 'save the lake meeting' 3 months ago and passed on an e-mail from Sophie Ridge at News of the world who wanted to do a story about the lakes and shame N power.was it followed up ?.you find out.What about 'Digger driesdale' from Radley eh ?.Go in the Bowyer arms and ask about his role in this.Sold them lakes through a'mate' to N power knowing what the outcome was.Now his mates got £3m livin in the 'costa del sell-out-****'
of course,out of shame'they dont want you to know all this.Stop f*cking around,looking like a bunch of single parent lesbian do-gooders outside a lame pub and do something real for christs sake.
Posted by: ady crapingdon, scum of uk on 3:39pm Thu 22 May 08
instead of putting ash in radley lakes and killing wild life and fish ,why dont you go 1 mile up road and dump the ash on abingdon town centre and council idiots offices , it wont affect the views....
instead of putting ash in radley lakes and killing wild life and fish ,why dont you go 1 mile up road and dump the ash on abingdon town centre and council idiots offices , it wont affect the views....
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