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Sandymoor Ormiston Academy
Sandymoor Ormiston Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Parish of Sandymoor, Runcorn, Cheshire, England. The school originally opened as Sandymoor School, a free school, in September 2012 in temporary premises, and relocated to a new permanent home in 2014. In December 2019, the school joined Ormiston Academies Trust and was renamed Sandymoor Ormiston Academy. The Principal, appointed in 2025, is Ms Linsey Hand.
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Sandymoor
Sandymoor is a civil parish in Runcorn, Halton, Cheshire, England, with a population of approximately 3,700. The majority of housing in Sandymoor was built post-1990 and the parish was formed in 2008 by the Halton (Parish Electoral Arrangements) Order 2008. Sandymoor lies approximately 3 miles east of Runcorn town centre, 4 miles south-west from Warrington town centre and 2 miles north of the M56 motorway.
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Keckwick
Keckwick is an area in the civil parish of Daresbury, in the Halton district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It straddles the West Coast Main Line between the village of Daresbury and the new town of Runcorn.
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Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications
The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) is a scientific user facility at Daresbury Laboratory. It is an electron linear accelerator (linac) currently under construction in the Electron Hall.
CLARA is made up of three phases; Phase 1 is operational and has achieved energies of 50 MeV with bunch charges >250 pC. Phase 2 was constructed off-line and consists of three linacs delivering a total design energy of up to 250 MeV, 250 pC beam charge at 100 Hz repetition rate. On 2 April 2025, CLARA achieved the full design energy of 250 MeV through Phase 2, at a bunch charge of 60 pC. Phase 2 also consists of the Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE) arc, a beamline which looks at plasma-wakefield acceleration, boosting the beam to energies of around 2 GeV for high energy experimentation. Phase 3 is future expansion for X-ray Free Electron Laser (X-FEL) construction. This 100 nm X-FEL is linked to the UK XFEL project.
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Synchrotron Radiation Source
The Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England was the first second-generation synchrotron light source to produce X-rays. The research facility provided synchrotron radiation to a large number of experimental stations and had an operating cost of approximately £20 million per annum.
SRS had been operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The SRS was closed on 4 August 2008 after 28 years of operation.