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Snibston, Bardon Quarry and Ghost SIgns

Start your day with the latest news and updates, with Jim and Jo at breakfast.

Campaigners - fighting to save Snibston Discovery Museum - have just six weeks to put their arguments together for a last gasp legal challenge. After a four year battle, a group of volunteers called 'Friends of Snibston' will fight it out with Leicestershire County Council in the courts - as part of a judicial review hearing. Taking place on the 20th and 21st July at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, High Court judges will look at the PROCESS by which the Council came to the decision to downsize Snibston. The Authority has always maintained it followed the correct procedures, but members of the public - and even some of its own Councillors - disagree. Bardon Quarry on the edge of Coalville is already vast, but now it's set to get even bigger... The 27-hectare hole-in-the-ground is coming to the end of its extraction life, and plans are now afoot to create another quarry twice the size a few hundred yards away. It'll secure existing jobs, and - over its 40-year lifespan - will provide 130 million tonnes of aggregate crucial to the country's construction industry. But a great deal of work is needed before the first bits of rock and granite are extracted. An inspection of the site highlights wildlife everywhere. You can't go anywhere these days without being bombarded with advertising panels, hoardings, and lit up signs trying to sell you something. Bright, garish, in your face...with slogans you'd rather not remember.....certainly not a memorable feature of our sky line. But around the country there are some remnants of what many call the golden age of advertising, that many aficionados treasure ... And they're called ghost signs.

3 hours

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  • Mon 8 Jun 2015 06:00