A really great shame. I trained there in the 1970s on the JP3 & 5 when it was a thriving and very busy place and the dispersal was full of aircraft. My daughter lived there in the Officers’ Mess only three years ago, three doors down from my old room. It was looking very run down back then.
I think I mentioned here that when I drove her back after her first bit of leave she couldn’t remember the combination to the push button combination lock on the back door. Something made me have a go and bizarrely I got it right first time. It hadn’t changed since I was there forty years ago!
It’s terrible news for the integrity of the village - the loss of the pub and the shop is shocking!