Hadn't heard anything about the 145s, but I had heard that they were acquiring Sun-Air of Scandinavia's two J41s. Sun-Air have taken on a load of Dornier 328s to re-equip and rumour had it that their two J41s (which are immaculate) had been sold to Eastern.
And PS - wouldn't have thought Finningley would figure. I think Eastern has quite enough bases to be getting along with - my calculations make it nine (HUY MME EMA LBA NCL NWI ABZ IOM INV) and I thought they were trying to reduce this slightly rather than keep opening new bases at every airport throughout the land.