A bonny view isn't it? It's a photograph of Derwent Forest, all 425 hectares of it, which was sold by the Ministry of Defence to Allerdale council and Cumbria County Council in August 2008 for the princely sum of £1.
Proposals for the development of the former Royal Navy armaments dump at Broughton Moor will be sought from next month and it's owners are not ruling out opencast mining.
The councils hope that the site will be used for leisure or commercial development, possibly with about 200 homes, but following comments made by Allerdale council's former director of strategic resources that experts had suggested that opencast mining may be the only option for the site, the councils this week said they were ruling nothing out and would choose the option that brought the most community benefit.
Considering each councils investment was 50p plus various maintenance and surveys, even if it was left as it is to be open land for the communities and others, it's not a bad deal.
The sellers are the fools but we know that. This is an article which details how the MoD intend to claw money back into their coffers. My blood pressure went sky high when I read it.
Source: Times and Star
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My Dear,
I've heard a rumour that the Royal Navy will slash its numbers by 5000next year through compulsary/voluntary redundancy.
I wait with baited breath!
CD
Hi SR
If all MP's paid back ALL the money they have looted from the taxpayer, it would go a ways to cover the lack
of cash the MoD will suffer.
D.
Would you take it CD?
Aye but they won't of course Apogee. Thieves have no honour.
SR,
Depends what's on the table, at least it will free me to work towards facilitating Independence for Scotland!
CD
p.s. The RAF will be the same.
I'll come with you CD lol - on a good day of course.
The army won't be included. Canon fodder will still be required for these hellish wars.
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