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Dickens's Kent under threat from airport plan
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NO doubt many of your readers will have savoured David Dimbleby's
testament to Great Expectations on a recent edition of BBC2's The Big
Read.
What they may not appreciate is that the atmospheric backdrop for
Dickens's epic work could soon be lost forever.
Much of the Hoo peninsula in north Kent is threatened by proposals
for a new airport twice the size of Heathrow. This includes Cooling
churchyard - the setting for Pip's scary first encounter with the
convict, Magwitch.
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Dickens's Kent under threat from airport plan.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... Expectations on a recent edition of BBC2's The Big Read. What they may not appreciate is that the atmospheric backdrop for Dickens's epic work could soon be lost forever. Much of the Hoo peninsula in north Kent is threatened by proposals for a new airport twice the size of Heathrow. This includes ...
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