The Ministry of Defence plans to close five Royal Air Force bases as part of £1bn of cutbacks.
They include Wittering, in Cambridgeshire, Coltishall, in Norfolk, and Benson, in Oxfordshire.
References: The Daily Telegraph 02/04/04 page 1, page 10
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