Secret underground city

The Sunday Times reports that the MoD is selling off Burlington, a massive nuclear fallout shelter designed to house the Queen, the Prime Minister and 4,000 civil servants. The city lies 120 feet underground in an old mine in the West Country – and with a rail connection from the Great Western main line (branching off in a tunnel). It even has a pub – modelled on the Red Lion in Whitehall.

To you, sir, £5m (plus maintenance of the military base above). Slashdot discusses.

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