{"id":55,"date":"2008-09-21T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-09-21T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T17:03:37","slug":"rupert-considers-tracy-island-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/2008\/09\/rupert-considers-tracy-island-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Considers “Tracy Island” Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London Mayor Boris “Rupert” Johnson is considering building an artificial island in the Thames Estuary as an answer to overcrowding at Heathrow Airport.
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\nA spokesperson for the mayor said Rupert “wants to undertake a study to establish the feasibility of the idea once and for all and is in the process of examining the best way to take the study forward.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe previous proposal to build a new airport at Cliffe in Kent<\/a> was rejected due to environmental concerns and the fact that the area is a major winter roost for seabirds the danger to aircraft taking off and landing was decided to be far too hazardous, and was even advised against<\/a> by BAA.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the idea of aircraft falling out of the sky onto the people of Sheppey<\/a> rather than Cliffe isn’t so bad an idea, Cliffe is after all only just across the river from East Tilbury, and well Sheppey is Sheppey.<\/p>\n


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