Let battle commence. With the release of their Master Plan, oh sorry, scoping report, RiverOak appear now to be getting their ducks in a row for what, no doubt, will be a big battle, I am sure Mrs. Gloag will not give her investment up easily. With the London airport expansion on hold following Brexit will this privately funded venture come along at just the right time.
Sit back and watch the sparks at least walk if not fly.

http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/riveroak-publish-manston-airport-scoping-report/story-29468846-detail/story.html?dm_i=1EGM,3P250,LUKSK5,DANH4,1

The report itself

https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-000094-Scoping%20Report.pdf

Haven’t read it yet and as we are leaving for what is reportedly going to be a sunny Gloucestershire/Hampshire for two weeks.

Hearse Chasing. An easy way of making money by creating headline news to sell papers and programmes by making unsupported allegations against deceased prominent people. In this case the newspapers were front page headlining based on information from a programme that had not then been broadcast. Libel is a civil matter and you would have to be very rich to contest it especially when the person who has been libelled is dead.

Of course, offences against minors is a criminal offence and I would be happy if the evidence had been presented to the police and that the police had made a statement that they were bringing a prosecution. In no way do I want to appear to be defending people who assault minors, or women or in fact anybody, but I do like to see some tangible evidence before a well known name is dragged through the mud, as mud will stick, guilty or not.

This is the original article I saw which includes this

“She remembered a particularly disturbing incident from when she was 14, when the couple asked her to join them in bed.
Mrs Freud left the room to make breakfast and her husband sexually assaulted her, she said.”

Although I have not read that anywhere else.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3641823/He-d-stroke-kiss-horrible-child-60-years-woman-abused-Clement-Freud-reveals-agony-TV-documentary.html

This would imply evidence as Lady Freud is, of course, still alive, and has been implicated in an improper proposal to a minor.

reliable report containing evidence of the recent allegations

Thank you guys for your interest but I had seen those “reports”, however, to me they did not seem to contain any actual “evidence” at all. What I was looking for was just some form of confirmation that there is substance to these allegations.

I always understood that in this country there was a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. I haven’t been able to find any published information that one might possibly call “evidence”.

Obviously, these charges are very serious and, if true, I in no way condone such behaviour involving minors. However, to me it does seem odd that the ladies in question, who were mature older adults before Freud died did not raise the issue prior to his death.

The third instance was reported to the police but again 40 years after the events and post Freud’s death.

It seems very strange to me that these revaluations are made on commercial television. But the synic in me can see that there is money in making such a programmes and paper news headlines especially as these seemed to appear before the programme was broadcast.

That said it is difficult to understand the comments made by his wife.

I think it is going to be difficult now to actually prove anything one way or the other but I am certain, guilty or not, we will see further ladies coming forward with allegations. because if he is guilty it would be unlikely that he stopped at 3 and if not guilty because there are always people who seek the attention and have seen the accusations made against other prominent deceased people.

Are we seeing the start of a new phenomena, hearse chasing?

All old Flight are freely available on line and downloadable for private use. So unless you like to actually possess them there wouldn’t be much of a market I would have thought.

I have bought, on Ebay a few odd older copies of of The Aeroplane but soon found that the wartime issues did not contain much of interest other than the adverts, presumably for security reasons. Cost was usually around £2-£3 including postage.

Then a bundle of about 50 came up starting at 99p. They were, IIRC, 40s,50s and 60s. I was a little surprised to get them for about £5. It turned out that the guy selling them had no interest in them but was at a tip when somebody was throwing them away and thought somebody would be interested in them.
I was too embarrassed to give him £5 so gave him £20 and a thank you for saving them.

Like everything I suppose the value is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly prices do seem to vary a lot and, in general, to interested parties I would have said unexpectedly low.