Just for the record, when they visited us, the NATS team said they wouldn't rule out anything as regards where the 'Severn TMA' radar function would be in the long term. No one mentioned "band 5 ATCO2 salary", that's something ebenezer read that wasn't in my post.
Anyway, I didn't move back here from Belfast to end up working down at Swanwick, god forbid I'd have to work with the same miserable tw@ts I saw at West Drayton every day, many moons ago. Nope, I'm happy up here in Ziderland, you can keep yer south coast sink hole.