However, the exciting news for anyone living near Sheerness is the presence of the Richard Montgomery, a US ammunition ship which sank off the coast in 1944 with some 7000 tons of stuff on board. As its close inshore, it’ll rattle more than the odd window if it ever goes BANG!

The Richard Montgomery is 6 miles from my front door… At all staes of tide the masts are above water, its not just the shock wave from the blast that will hit Sheerness and Southend but also a tidal wave that at low tide would not be massive but would still flood large parts of both the Essex and Kent Thames Estuary shore lines however at High tide the water ingress would reach for over a mile or so thay say.

From 2006ish

A supporter of the Stop Airport Extension Now! has applied for permission to apply for a Judicial Review for Southend Council’s granting of planning permission on the basis they did not listen to what the the vast majority of the people who responded to the consultation wanted…

The bit that will hopefully trip them up is the fact it was a consultation which is in noway shape or form a leagally binding document.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/southend/8297512.Anti_expansion_group_want_Southend_Council_in_court_over_airport_runway_extension/

http://www.saen.org.uk/2010/07/southend-council-taken-to-court-over-runway-extension-planning-permission/

stampe or some thing very similar over Southed mid afternoon heading South-west

Thought she was in all over red at some point, last time I saw her at Gatwick a few years back she was in bare metal.

Update from Southend:

The company that designed Centre Court at Wimbledon have won the contract to build the extension at Southend Airport, Capita Symonds won the contract to extend the runway 300m, divert Eastwoodbury Land, rebuild a childerns playground and dismantle and rebuild a section of the church boundary wall.

Work on diverting the road is expected to start in the autumn, with the work on the runway starting early 2011 all work is expected to be complete before the 2012 Olmypics.

The expected cost of works is estimated to be £35million, this includes the £12million railway station ans £3million contral tower already under construction.

The control tower recently gained its “fish bowl” top, a group of near by residents are complaing about the loss of privacy and that new tower blights the view from their homes and is a monstrosity.

They are also complaing about light that are to be fitted to the tower.

Saw the BBMF Dakota today, flew right over my house after its flypast at bletchley park 🙂

She came in to Southend for the sickly Hurricane PZ865 she had oil pressure indication problems she landed at 6:30pm (callsign Dakota95)