Our Friend in Thames Valley
In May, I was driving to collect my eight-year-old daughter from her grandparents’ house when I heard a cacophony of sirens as fire engines and police cars hurtled past. In front of me was an enormous plume of thick black smoke.
That evening, two firefighters and one member of the public lost their lives while heroically trying to save a community from disaster at a former RAF base in Bicester, north Oxfordshire. In the days that followed, as the shock, sadness and grief mounted, so did the stories about the remarkable people involved.
