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Fringey Mini: Coastal collapse and royal rehoming · Journey to the Fringe

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  I think you're gonna like this. It is on one
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  of your themes. I'm telling you, I really came
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  prepared for these minis. This one is from the
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  bbc .com. Three days ago. Can you believe how
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  up -to -date my news articles are? Wow. I'm just
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  blowing it out of the article. Don't you mean
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  four years and three days ago? I do. Three days,
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  I better give you a date. What was three days
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  ago? February 19th, 2026. And this is from Paul
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  Murphy, brace yourself. Collapsed nuclear bunker
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  to be left on beach. A former Cold War bunker
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  that fell into the sea in East Yorkshire last
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  month is to be left on the beach to disintegrate.
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  The brick structure on the eroding coastline
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  at Toonstall was originally designed as a lookout
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  post to detect nuclear explosions. The Crown
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  Estate, which owns the beach below, said it was
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  safer to leave the remains of the building in
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  place. I'm actually surprised that's not where
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  British Andy got placed in that last house he
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  had to live at. Ha ha ha I love that. It's true.
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  It seems fitting, doesn't it? Quote, following
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  a risk assessment, we have decided to leave the
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  monitoring post in place on the beach, end quote,
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  said the independent business which belongs to
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  the monarch. The bunker succumbed to the mercy
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  of the sea last month and is believed to have
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  fallen at some point overnight on the 22nd or
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  23rd of January. The brick building is believed
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  to be almost 70 years old and was designed as
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  a monitoring post in the event of a nuclear war.
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  It was one of a number of nuclear monitoring
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  posts around the UK according to the historical
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  research group Subterranea Britannica. Known
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  as the Tunestall ROC, Royal Observer Corpse Post,
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  it is believed to have been built in 1959 and
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  decommissioned in the early 1990s. Nobody knows
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  a whole lot about this bunker or even when it
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  fell onto the beach. it seems to be a rather
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  big mystery yeah it can't be a thing that people
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  came across too often no but its biggest threat
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  has been coastal erosion and the crown estate
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  said the cost of removing it outweighs the risk
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  of leaving it there the structure which weighs
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  30 tons presented no active risk the estate said
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  and it was not possible to enter it the curious
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  feature in its crumbling landscape will be inspected
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  annually to ensure public safety the area has
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  some of the fast a road and coastline in the
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  UK according to the Environment Agency. But nothing
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  will be done about it because there's no rich
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  people on it. Exactly. So I thought that was
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  kind of a nice little adjacent to the rich people
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  and their emotions and climate change. It's quite
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  nice there, it's just nobody gives a shit about
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  it because no rich people are currently residing
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  there. British Andy was jailed before he could
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  be moved to it. Exactly, and you never know.
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  The king could be listening to this and we could
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  spark an idea there. You just never know where
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  the opportunities are gonna come, and if it does,
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  you're welcome. You say that, but I think we
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  used too many colorful words that would taint
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  the royal ears, and we are forbidden for the
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  finer folk to listen to. We have to be. We're
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  the real English. We're Canadian. The pure English.
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  See Billy Meyer said English is not pure, but
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  he did not know Canadians I assume despite the
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  fact that he has a Canadian franchise or whatever
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  He does anyhow. That's the mini for today that
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  I was prepared. Okay, very prepared for don't
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  let it make you feel uncomfortable I am a little
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  too uncomfortable because we're sitting at four
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  and a half minutes. I'm just like yeah, we were
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  too prepared. Yeah But that just gives you guys
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  what 48 hours and an extra like Seven minutes
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  four minutes somewhere in that range to get prepared
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  for the episode on Friday. So yeah, you do it
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  I'm not gonna waste some more time. Bye. Yeah,
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  bye