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23rd December 2011 17:55

We've put together our list of the ten most impressive secret bunkers and hideouts in the UK.

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30th October 2011 10:56

Seventy years ago, as the Blitz began in London, the BBC set up an emergency studio deep inside the Clifton Rocks Railway.

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30th September 2011 13:13

Around the world there are many abandoned prisons, once cages for people, some criminals, some political prisoners.

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7th September 2011 23:57

A former banker plans to transform one of London's abandoned tube stations into a tourist attraction, with a restaurant and even a climbing wall.

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23rd August 2011 13:02

The small market town of Corsham has recently become the home to a new high-tech part of the MOD's global defence strategy.

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23rd August 2011 06:47

There was a rare chance for people in Lincoln to see a part of the old Roman city wall and Posterngate not usually on public view.

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11th August 2011 05:30

One hundred and thirty metres below the sea bed of Singapore lies a most unusual construction site. The project, dubbed the Jurong Rock Caverns, is costing about $740m (£450m).

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8th August 2011 01:17

Guided tours through an underground fuel depot constructed during World War II are being offered following the success of events held two years ago.

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3rd August 2011 06:48

Stories of the "forgotten" coal pits of north Wales are being published by the National Coal Museum.

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14th July 2011 16:51

A Cold War bunker in Somerset which still contains some of its original equipment from the 1960s is being opened up to the public.

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5th June 2011 14:56

If nuclear attack or civil breakdown ever threatens the UK, the heads of government and the military know where to go. See photos of PINDAR.

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24th May 2011 13:47

A wealthy financier’s 1978 bomb shelter is the ultimate Cold War relic—and an extreme version of the government-sanctioned “security theater” still prevalent today.

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13th April 2011 09:19

If Cardiff had an underground train network it might look something like this tube map.

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11th March 2011 14:11

The London Underground, the oldest and biggest metro system in the world, has hundreds of unique designs and quirks of construction. Find out more about our transport here.

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7th February 2011 10:57

Metropolitan Police officers are using a disused Cold War nuclear bunker for hostage training.

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14th November 2010 11:24

Who knew that, 10 storeys beneath a Worcestershire hill, the corporation is ready for Armageddon?

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14th November 2010 10:28

With the threat of the Cold War looming in the late 80s the UK government made plans to hide underground and Burlington was born, but a German Democratic Republic bunker existed which dwarfed Burlington.

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1st September 2010 11:11

See amazing photos of the Six Flags theme park which was shut down by Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

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27th August 2010 06:34

The 33 Chilean miners trapped far underground have now been told that it could take months to get them out.

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19th August 2010 12:37

As Brunel’s Great Western Railway marks 175 years, David Clensy ventures down into the labyrinth of shafts, culverts and pumping drains that allow more than four million people to travel safely through the Severn Tunnel each year.

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