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CONFUSION has arisen over when work on a £50m extension to Didcot’s Orchard shopping centre is to begin. A schedule of works for expanding the Orchard Centre was published in May, showing how it was supposed to have started on August 1. Work to demolish redundant warehousing on the site of the extension took place in March, but building work on the project has not yet got under way. The development is due to

By George Welch include 24 shops, a Marks & Spencer food hall, a gym, six restaurants and 105 extra parking spaces. The scheme on the 7.9-hectare site was expected to take 53 weeks to complete, being fi nished on June 5 next year when a new restaurant quarter was complete. Didcot councillors have admitted they have been left VË Í ÖjÄË Ëˬ?~jËÏ

Dad’s death ruled as ‘accidental’

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A DIDCOT dad with mentalhealth issues died as a result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident, a coroner ruled last Thursday. Thirty-year-old Chris Doman, of Nuffield Close, was killed on March 1 in the car crash on the B4015 Jubilee Way. His silver Rover was involved in the collision with a red Skoda, being driving in the opposite

direction, at the Hagbourne Road junction at about 2.10pm. An inquest in Oxford heard he was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene through massive blood loss after he hit the steering wheel. The younger of two children, Mr Doman had moments previously stormed out of his home following an argument with his partner. The ASDA warehouse

worker in Sutton Courtney had a history of mental-health issues and was on the anti-depressant medication citalopram. The court heard he also had a history of self-harming and suicidal thoughts and had previously tried to kill himself on two occasions in 2011 and 2012. But assistant Oxfordshire coroner Nicholas Graham concluded that there was not enough

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