Prisoners 'to be housed in RAF camp'
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Just look at the political map of England, pick out the blue bits (not to difficult in the shires) cross refer to current or ex mil accommodation and there you go. Poke in the eye to those ungrateful middle class types and no votes lost for Gordon's Nazis - If only I was joking 
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Yeller's got it about right, there are a million and one non aviation uses for the former RAF Coltishall, so build a prison on it and totally preclude its use for anything else.
It's accepted that avition would never return there, but the airfield itself has brown field status and is ripe for development as an industrial park for the many businesses which cannot find or afford space in Norwich.
Still, if it became a prison with a runway, at least it could be used to house the illegal criminals, then fly them out to the North Sea and drop them off...
It's accepted that avition would never return there, but the airfield itself has brown field status and is ripe for development as an industrial park for the many businesses which cannot find or afford space in Norwich.
Still, if it became a prison with a runway, at least it could be used to house the illegal criminals, then fly them out to the North Sea and drop them off...
I suppose it's only co-incidence that this weeks Defence Contracts Bulletin invites expressions of interest for the redevelopment of RAF Wyton.......
REDEVELOPMENT OF RAF WYTON
Redevelopment including design via new build/refurbishment of RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The project is required to be handed over in 2010. There is the possibility that a second increment (required in 2013/4) will be inserted into the contract at a later stage.
REDEVELOPMENT OF RAF WYTON
Redevelopment including design via new build/refurbishment of RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The project is required to be handed over in 2010. There is the possibility that a second increment (required in 2013/4) will be inserted into the contract at a later stage.
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Lindholme - oh sorry, they have already done that.
How about Finningley - ooops, too late someone has made it into yet another 'international airport'.
Waterbeach - already a prison thinly disguised as an RE Barracks.
Neatishead - sorry, its now a pointless museum.
Scampton - Should fit in well with the ASACs community.
Wittering - might as well do something with it as we cannot afford to hand it back.
How about Finningley - ooops, too late someone has made it into yet another 'international airport'.
Waterbeach - already a prison thinly disguised as an RE Barracks.
Neatishead - sorry, its now a pointless museum.
Scampton - Should fit in well with the ASACs community.
Wittering - might as well do something with it as we cannot afford to hand it back.
Art Field said:
Quite right too. I was there (at the School, as a pupil) during Op Corporate (with a lot of lads whose old men were down there), and the tension and fear every time the news came on was something I'll always remember.
It's a MoD School of course, glad to see we are looking after our own
Don't you love the bit about not using the Dover camp because children of those serving in Afghanistan are at school nearby.
It's a MoD School of course, glad to see we are looking after our own
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This part of the north east was once one of the most heavily populated areas for RAF stations. Most were training stations. A few I can remember are: West Kirby, Woodvale, Weeten, Kirkham, Burtonwood, Warton.
Most of these have probably been ploughed over or built on now. Kirkham is already a prison. How many of them are in the correct constituency I do not know. My bet is Woodvale.
The article does say that they are building cabins now so I do not think it will be Sealand. Also it is in the wrong constituency
OK OK - Sorry about that. I was having a senior moment. I did mean the NORTH WEST. I have now edited my post. I will pay pennance by drinking a few extra pints of ale tonight.
The redevelopment of Wyton?
I assume that this is to do with building/converting barrack blocks, dining facilities etc for the living-in personnel arriving from Brampton in the next couple of years.
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So guard duty will now be a case of walking the fence on the outside of the camp.
MOD Main Building, Abbey Wood should make the best places maybe the inmates could 'HOT BUNK' ..... to save them doing too much time inside poor things.
At least Blair could leave number 10 walk accroos the road and be the first inmate for war crimes.
MOD Main Building, Abbey Wood should make the best places maybe the inmates could 'HOT BUNK' ..... to save them doing too much time inside poor things.
At least Blair could leave number 10 walk accroos the road and be the first inmate for war crimes.
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Lindholme - oh sorry, they have already done that.
How about Finningley - ooops, too late someone has made it into yet another 'international airport'.
Waterbeach - already a prison thinly disguised as an RE Barracks.
Neatishead - sorry, its now a pointless museum.
Scampton - Should fit in well with the ASACs community.
Wittering - might as well do something with it as we cannot afford to hand it back.
How about Finningley - ooops, too late someone has made it into yet another 'international airport'.
Waterbeach - already a prison thinly disguised as an RE Barracks.
Neatishead - sorry, its now a pointless museum.
Scampton - Should fit in well with the ASACs community.
Wittering - might as well do something with it as we cannot afford to hand it back.
You missed a few including a possible high hit, given the Army doesn't need UK barracks anymore.
Catterick.
Then Dishforth or Leconfield
Leccy is rather too close to Prescott Towers to make that choice likely. Woodvale would be handy - for Merseyside Police ASU to keep them mindful of the forces that helped put them in the clink.
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Reminds me of the story of Locking a few years back.
They desperately needed accomodation for the Illegal Immigrants and Locking was offered up.
They turned it down - because it was deemed that the accomodation wasn't good enough for Illegal Immigrants.
So what did they do instead?
They flattened the site and put it back to open fields.
Enough to wake you weep.
They desperately needed accomodation for the Illegal Immigrants and Locking was offered up.
They turned it down - because it was deemed that the accomodation wasn't good enough for Illegal Immigrants.
So what did they do instead?
They flattened the site and put it back to open fields.
Enough to wake you weep.
I think DGIC may have something to say about a bunch of thieves & murderers sharing the same site as the one earmarked for one of his prize toys!
Coltishall keeps cropping up in the press reports I've read. Not sure how true that is, but knowing this governments loathing of the military and distaste for the past, erasing the final BoB station and replacing with a prison is hardly surprising. Would appear to be about par for the course.
On the bright side, there should be enough space to keep Tony's cabal in a style to which they are currently unaccustomed
Coltishall keeps cropping up in the press reports I've read. Not sure how true that is, but knowing this governments loathing of the military and distaste for the past, erasing the final BoB station and replacing with a prison is hardly surprising. Would appear to be about par for the course.
On the bright side, there should be enough space to keep Tony's cabal in a style to which they are currently unaccustomed
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Linton......?
Well,
They're building a new SLAM block.
They're putting in a new control tower.
They're re-laying the main runway.
If that isn't enough evidence, I don't know what is!
They're building a new SLAM block.
They're putting in a new control tower.
They're re-laying the main runway.
If that isn't enough evidence, I don't know what is!
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Wasn't Newton being banded around as some sort of asylum camp a while ago? Sounds like that has potential! I remember that the locals wanted the RAF out for years and years and then were desperate to get them back when it was mentioned that it was going to be an asylum camp. Not sure how far the idea got in the end??? Anyone know?
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From the Kenyan paper “The Saturday Standard” 27/1/07
“Shoot to kill criminals, Michuki orders police.
Internal security minister Mr John Michuki has told police to shoot and kill any armed criminals.
“How do you arrest someone who has a gun and is ready to fire? Or will you arrest him when you are already dead?” he posed.”
Certainly eases possible prison over crowding. If, at the end of the day, the police still have too many prisoners ….
From the same paper on the same day:
“Officer turns his bedroom into female suspects’ cell”
The police were “hailed for their discipline. Despite the female cells being within the police officer’s house, there were no cases of sexual exploitation or coercion”
“Shoot to kill criminals, Michuki orders police.
Internal security minister Mr John Michuki has told police to shoot and kill any armed criminals.
“How do you arrest someone who has a gun and is ready to fire? Or will you arrest him when you are already dead?” he posed.”
Certainly eases possible prison over crowding. If, at the end of the day, the police still have too many prisoners ….
From the same paper on the same day:
“Officer turns his bedroom into female suspects’ cell”
The police were “hailed for their discipline. Despite the female cells being within the police officer’s house, there were no cases of sexual exploitation or coercion”