Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2013 9:30:24 GMT -5
INTERESTING:
Woven into the national fabric as a symbol of wartime defiance, the cliffs stand immortalised by the voice of Vera Lynn and images of soaring Spitfires.
A National Trust campaign has just raised over £1m to buy a key stretch of the cliff-tops to forestall any development.
Most people would probably agree that that was a good thing. The trust's campaign video flashed up names such as Caesar and Churchill to emphasise the pivotal importance of the cliffs to our island story, and the donations rolled in.
LINK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23375319
Woven into the national fabric as a symbol of wartime defiance, the cliffs stand immortalised by the voice of Vera Lynn and images of soaring Spitfires.
A National Trust campaign has just raised over £1m to buy a key stretch of the cliff-tops to forestall any development.
Most people would probably agree that that was a good thing. The trust's campaign video flashed up names such as Caesar and Churchill to emphasise the pivotal importance of the cliffs to our island story, and the donations rolled in.
LINK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23375319