Letter: Good use for mine expertise
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Your support makes all the difference.I WAS surprised to see an article criticising my ideas for mine clearance ("MP says arms firm should receive Diana fund cash", 11 January), not least because I have not been contacted to give my side of the story.
Royal Ordnance Plc, based in my constituency, has never produced anti- personnel landmines. The team in Chorley are experts not only in mine clearance but also in the clearance of other explosive ordnance and I am keen that this ex- pertise should be passed on.
I am not calling for money from the Diana fund to be given to British Aerospace or for BAe to be given contracts with donated money to clear the mines. All I want is for the expertise we have in Chorley to be passed on in a school to train people in techniques to clear mines, which we know was one of the late princess's principal concerns.
Lindsay Hoyle MP
House of Commons
London SW1
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