Clive
Very heart warming to hear such positive creative solutions.
Point well made. The equivalent of traditional terraced houses with back yards masquerading not to be so. According to many young people I know they seem to have been brain washed into believing that not having a garden to look after equates to an 'uncluttered lifestyle'. Or maybe they have to pragmatically believe/accept that to afford anything these days.
Nostalgically, how about breaking rocks on Dartmoor for ballast on the railway? but to be more serious it does seem a shame not to increase schemes to harness their energies in a more positive way, benefits society and reduces their chance of re-offending on release. i.e. agree @Mrs C 'a combination of the two' is probably best. Would be telling to know if anything was stolen before the ...
Chain-gang them into doing the rebuild would be fitting. A £50 fine and a slap on the wrist more likely though.
So I wish Exeter Airport the very best in expanding its destinations (at reasonable prices) - abroad as well please
@Mrs C - you are quite right about crazy 'red-eye' flight times from bristol. my parents always seem to end up having to spend the night out bound plus get up at 5am as well just to catch their daft flight time at bristol to spain. newquay used to have the occasional flight to the south of france but now only an infrequent one to germany is the only remaining international flight - hence their ...
On that basis Ryanair must have, in effect, been paying me to fly to Lisbon for £15 each way and at only 2weeks booking ahead. Returning there were only 60 of the 200 seats were occupied!!! (p.s. I should confess it was mid-January, but I can recommend Lisbon as an excellent destination even in January). £80 Guernsey is very good as well though particularly for first week Sept. and still £25 ...
The ever increasing 'cyclotron' of London. So seems as though for the vast majority of people without expense accounts the SW 'regional' airport remains defacto Bristol (or Southend et al!) Just like the 'West Country' getting electric trains, means Bristol.
Absolutely brilliant video...also spare a thought though for everyone westward who also lost their railway service albeit not in such a stark way. Penzance was stranded around 100miles from its nearest London service. We really were 'all in it together' on this occasion!!!
p.s. Hmm I see from the article that it wasn't quite as simple as I thought. As with many main airports Plymouth city has expanded to engulf it and so paid the price by throttling the options on its usage to zero. From a customer point of view, getting 'cheap flights' from provincial airports is quite a challenge. e.g. You don't get £15 Ryanair flights to Lisbon from Exeter but you can from ...
