From the Torygraph a couple of days ago:

MoD's forced cuts could prove a blessing - Telegraph

Well let's just hope tomorrow's 'shock' doesn't come in the next 10 years.

Great idea but the building would be enormous. The brand new Navy Command HQ at Whale Island is a massive building on its own

It's not that BIG - well that's what I hear from the wife mostly these days...:(

Navy Cmd "HMS Excellent", Whale Island
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Command_HQ.JPG

Now this is BIG...

http://www.arlingtonvarealestate.biz...s/pentagon.jpg

That's probably because most of the occupants are BIG.:O

Must`ve had a lot of spare paint in the Pusser`s Locker.....Just put a big white number on the side,and it`ll be another Stone Frigate....nice to see all the lifeboats ready for a quick getaway as well...

They are not lifeboats, they are the future fleet.

Bids called for £10m RAF control tower Ι Construction Enquirer

Does DE know something we don't then?? Rather presumptious surely??

Chuffin' Eck..... £10 million big ones to build an ATC tower.... Is it just the one ATC tower or are there half a dozen of them...? £10 million quid for a brick building 60' high...... anyone fancy forming a company and bidding for the contract? Im sure I could come in with a figure way, way beneath that one

A 10 million quid spend at Lossie is a sure sign that the place will be closed down soon after all the dosh has been paid to the contractors.
I would have thought that an Air Traffic control tower housed ground staff, apart from the occasional flying supervisor, of course.

Nice.
 

Very handy for a new owner of the airfield if the MoD dispences with it.:E

Are we suggesting here that this all goes hand in hand. The M.O.D. sprucens up an airfield, then... oh dear, it falls victim to cuts!! But not worry because B.A.A. or whoever are conveniently there to step up to the plate as it were and well... make good use of the facilities!:ok:

FB:)

Did I read that right?! 10 MILLION for an ATC Tower and some 2 storey outbuildings?. Anyone who pens that deal deserves to have his testicles stapled to his eyelids.
No doubt it will go ahead with the typical `look at me I'm fab` moment from the overseeing pleb in the RAF News, whilst the poor `end users` who will be working in it will be wishing they were consulted as to what they actually wanted instead of what fits the generic bill for 'MOD?...Ah, yes knock out any old sh!te and give them an extra zero on the the final value`.
We never learn.:=

ps. oh yeah and then close the camp anyways.:ugh:

pps, I'll do it for 9 Million.:}

This is what you want...
http://www.vegatransports.com.au/200...birds/tbs1.jpg

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That was pretty much how I believe what happens isn't it? The MOD spend a stupid amount on an existing site then close it down........then the Pongos move in.

It's probably one of those, you know, stealthy ones...:ugh::ugh: