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| Guardian | MoD to close four RAF bases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | RAF Boulmer in Northumberland, RAF Neatishead in Norfolk, RAF Sealand in Deeside, Flintshire and RAF Stafford will be closed in a move affecting 2,000 jobs. |
 | | RAF Boulmer started off as a wartime decoy airfield before providing a base for Spitfire training. |
 | | It is now part of the RAF's string of air defence and surveillance bases, of which Neatishead was one of the first. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4908397-110595,00.html (501 words) |
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