Caw canny, Albert Driver. Ewan is on-side and is offering good publicity which will probably be worth 10 times the product of the official spin doctors. Why he should have to pay for the priviledge is beyond me.
You imagine Ford or TVR demanding money to help with a piece? It just wouldn't happen. In the old days, if you wanted to use an airfield to shoot something, you could ring Harry. He'd weigh up the pros and cons and make a decision based on the fact that if he's considered responsible enough to look after a few dozen jets and a couple of thousand troops, this sort of decision shouldn't be too much beyond him. Nowadays, you try that approach and you get referred to a bean counting paper clip shuffling weener who was given a job by the civil service to maintain their clout and who has been given the grandiose title of Crown Agent/ land 'custodian' or some such to$$.
AND he'll
start at £800 for an afternoon. I understand that there is a balance between preserving the public's interests, getting value from the land and maintaining some sort of control over who uses what, but publishers pay huge wedges of tax too. As chairman of a couple of stn motorbike clubs I never had any problem in getting grip and grin cheque handovers infront of jets or tanks. As a publisher, its a different story.
Section!!! 300!!! Field/Playing. 12 o' clock of uneven playing field, in open.. goalposts. Goalposts now moving left to right. WATCH AND SHOOT, WATCH AND SHOOT!!