A LONG-AWAITED event has been cancelled as coronavirus effects stretch into the summer months.
This year's Abingdon Food and Drink Festival – a charity event organised and run by the Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper – is no more.
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Scheduled to have taken place for two days at Rye Farm Meadow on June 20 and 21 it was set to raise thousands for charity.
One Rotarian Tim Barrett part of the team organising the popular festival said: "There is no alternative because the future is too uncertain for us to just postpone it".
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