Harrier Force Farewell Royal Air Force Cottesmore Rutland Photographs

Harrier Force Farewell Royal Air Force Cottesmore Rutland

Friendly RAF man guards RAF Cottesmore's front gate

Local police direct traffic along with members of the RAF

 

Harrier on the ground

 

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Plane TV

Harrier on the ground

Harrier hovering I was pleased they hovered they fly

to quick for my camera

Three flying Harries 

100's of Photographers could be seen all over Rutland

Luke military police dog handler

 

some very nice camera equipment being used today

visitors from Germany, North Wales, Hemel Hempstead

and Kettering and many more places.

 

 

 

Cottesmore Airfield

 

 Royal Navy Flag

man on the left served on HMS Ark Royal

the flagship of the Royal decommission this 

afternoon by the government, the gentleman 

have travelled from Norfolk and camped with

others in a nearby field over night the farmer 

kindly lent him the Land Rover.

RAF man on Guard Duty

Leicester Police on patrol during the event.

PC Sue Cockerill said it was a sad day for 

Rutland, PC Joe Lloyd said Hello.

Military Police Dog

 

The RAF provided hot refreshments.

BBC Radio Leicester

RAF Police Land Rover

A MOD Police Officers

So its farewell to the Harrier people still wonder the future 

holds for Rutland when the base is closed.

Harrier final flight from RAF Cottesmore

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Harrier pilot Captain Mike Carty speaks to the BBC's Anthony Bartram as the final flights take place

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• Struggle at the top over Harrier axe
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The Harrier made its final flight, from RAF Cottesmore in Rutland. It was retired early after falling victim to defence cuts.
Harriers passed over seven military bases today.
The Harriers will be decommissioned in 2011

Axing the Harrier is set to save £450m over the next four years and £900m in total, and involve the loss of 12,000 jobs in the Harrier force.

The government's strategic defence and security review (SDSR) outlined the decision to scrap the Joint Force Harrier jet, which served the RAF and Royal Navy.

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Rutland Chat Forum Oakham Town Council and Rutland County Council

It was good to have confirmed who is behind the running  of the Rutland Chat Forum.

A forum used by Ex Councillors like Jim Harrison and Paul Beech,  Mr Harrison a member whilst a Cllr admitted providing an image to be used in that forum so people could comment attacking me. So I hope you can excuse my suggestion this has connections with the own Council.

The forum is mostly run by Tim Humphrey the son of a former Oakham Town Councillor not much of a surprise there.

moderated by Doris Cook from Melton Mowbray and ex Rutland Resident Robin King.
 
I publish these names because other residents in our town were also very unhappy with the way these people behaved towards them. I  think especially of the late Nigel who was subject to insults because of the visible scars of cancer on his hands. Of Course Cllr Haworth will say publicly he knows nothing about the forum  but as I have said in the past I visited him and his mother told me he does not get up before midday, so I returned to his home at around 6.00 pm and he shoved her out of the way. Don't worry Cllr Haworth I won't be publishing what you asked not to be recorded in your statement regarding your comments about you and your mother. Oh yes back to the purpose of the visit. I mentioned my disgust at the forum allowing the posts attacking Nigel who worked at Tesco after my visit all the posts were removed. Not bad for some one who does not know anything about the running of the forum?

He and other Councillors have been involved in a campaign to discredit me since I complained about ex Councillor Jan Fillingham.

If I could publish the statements you would see how all these people behave it is disgusting.

So called respectable members of the community showing how they bully by suggesting they wouild prefer to sort issues in a boxing ring.
suggesting they come back from taking the dog for a walk whilst they are read the procedure of interview.
One other is recorded as laughing.
One claims falsely I hang about their house. Another accuses me of stalking. Other say I harm them or myself.

This is a very small town so if any of that was true I am sure their friends at Oakham Police station would have dealt with that very swiftly. PC Sue Cockerel most certainly would.

They have tried to paint a picture of a person who just appeared around 2009 and is mad, but when he became a councillor we welcomed him with open arms, what crap!

It appears it is so easy for members of the establishment to say someone is nuts if they complain.

They complain about me sending many e-mails, if they had spoken to me and not excluded me as witnessed by members of the public, maybe they would not have got so many it was pure frustration. If they had not ignored me the first place maybe they would not have received a follow up. They complain I cc. to a number of people on the outside of the council, this was done in the same way many of them did, I look at their emails sent to standards complaining about me and a lot were copied to senior members of Rutland County Council clearly to gain their support and approval.

The most damming statement is "Martin Brookes made it very difficult to discuss matters at council  because he might blog"
Council meetings are public so what is the issue? I remember the public don't attend so its become a little club to do as they please!  So they had private meeting around the public meetings to which I was not invited. It appears these were quite frequent. I and my blog are discussed on a daily basis. They should have put more energy into carrying out the duties of a Councillor not spending the vast volume of the time deciding how to exclude me.

The Griffin Pub Oakham looks for a new landlord

 

The Griffen Pub Oakham looks for a new landlord

Cllr Charles Harworth Oakham Town Council

Dear Cllr Charles Haworth

Please can you explain why you or Mr Harrison are posting comments of a sexual nature on my blog? in the name of a Oakham School teacher?

I ask you both this question because the name used in the comments was spelt incorrectly? not a mistake anyone else makes.

Unlike Mr Jones you use a proxy server so its hard to tell exactly which one of you is responsible.

On the 12 June 2010 at 20.22 Cllr Charles Haworth sent a email to Ex Cllr Jim Harrison saying

"I know for a fact that Oakham School know all about Brookes, John ###### must be really emabarrassed."

 You disgust me and concern this teacher.

From

Martin Brookes