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16th September 2008 03:47

It sounds like something out of the BBC drama Spooks – but the Ministry of Defence's secret command centre deep beneath Whitehall lacks the glamour of a TV set.

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21st February 2007 15:16

They call themselves urban explorers. Actually they're trespassers, a bunch of hare-brained pests with a limited mental age and unlimited arrogance.

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16th February 2007 11:42

Miners from Wales are helping to save hundreds of homes from collapse in one of England's most picturesque cities. They cross the Severn Bridge each day to stabilise stone mines underneath Bath.

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9th February 2007 13:46

Big Pit, Wales' working mine museum, is lending its mine shafts to a firm creating a Welsh cheddar cheese. A Blaenavon company which makes four types of cheddar says the temperature...

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27th October 2006 03:11

More than £800m is to be spent over 25 years to refurbish and manage Ministry of Defence (MoD) communication facilities at Corsham, Wiltshire. The centre will improve communication systems.

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7th August 2006 10:00

The precise locations of dozens of secret military and spy bases are to be revealed on Ordnance Survey maps for the first time, ending one of the last remaining legacies of the Cold War.

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9th November 2005 13:36

A nuclear bunker made to house the government and civil servants in the event of nuclear attack is for sale. The existence of the underground complex at Corsham was kept secret until recently.

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30th October 2005 09:59

The most underpopulated town in Britain is being put on the market. But there will be no estate agent's blurb extolling the marvellous views of the town for sale: true, it has a Wiltshire address...

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28th October 2005 15:43

Britain's deepest pub is up for a £40million revamp. The 120ft-deep Rose & Crown is part of the underground town built in Wiltshire as a secret base for the PM after a nuclear attack.

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5th October 2005 11:22

Think of just about any major military operation involving British forces in the past couple of decades and you may be surprised to learn that the key commanders were based underground.

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8th September 2005 00:55

Town councillors have approved plans for a giant care village at HMS Royal Arthur, saying it would be the lesser of a number of evils on the site.

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23rd May 2005 16:30

One of Bristol's Victorian attractions was opened to the public for the first time in more than 50 years. The Clifton Rocks Railway is made up of four tracks inside one 500-ft tunnel.

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28th April 2005 15:09

A former nuclear bunker measuring just 15ft by 7ft 6ins has been put up for sale with a guide price of £10,000. The old Royal Observer Corps post is at Marshfield, South Gloucestershire.

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18th March 2005 10:38

Crawling through a gap between two huge bath stone boulders, feet first, he gingerly lowers himself down on to a ladder and into the darkness.

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25th November 2004 10:41

Think of just about any major military operation involving British forces in the past couple of decades and you may be surprised to learn that the key commanders were based underground.

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18th November 2004 13:14

Two former nuclear bunkers, each about the size of a small caravan, have sold at auction for a total of £18,000. One of the underground monitoring posts, in Stannington, Northumberland, fetched £7k.

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19th February 2004 09:01

A replica pub inside a radiation-proof bunker in Wiltshire is among the most secure places on Earth. Science magazine Focus says the "1960s Bar" is the world's most secure pub.

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5th December 2003 23:39

At twilight the Gothic towers of an abandoned hospital loom like a haunted house. But the shadowy figures flitting along crumbling corridors are not ghosts...

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5th December 2003 23:38

Through sheeting rain, Steve Higgins struggles over piles of rusting metal in a wooded gully nicknamed Ammo Case Alley.

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12th August 2003 11:16

An underground nuclear shelter in Somerset has gone on the market for £200,000. The two-storey Royal Observer Corps control bunker near Yeovil, even has planning permission to be turned into house.

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