Kingdom of Cleveland News: 2010-11 (1983: Doomsday)

2010
17th January a referendum is held to decide the name for the country once the Kingdoms of Cleveland and Northumbria unite.

there are several possibilities they are as follows with votes cast:

■Kingdom of Albion - 72,047 ■New United Kingdoms - 14,873 ■New Brittania - 3,497 ■Greater Cleveland - 3,267 ■Greater Northumbria - 2,564 ■all others - 1,203. 14th May 2010

PM Mallon announces that the Kingdom of Cleveland expanding to include any remaining settlements in the non-irradiated sections of the former counties of North, South and West Yorkshire. Teams will be sent into these area to give out supplies, long wave radios and small wind turbines to any settlements that require them.

The countries northern border will be the River Tyne, however due to the radiation that still exists around the Newcastle/Gatehead area the actual boundery will be 20 miles south of the river.

PM Mallon also announces that teams wil be sent into the East Riding of Yorkshire to survey the area for survivors and any resources that Cleveland would need.

21st May 2010

Referendum day in the Kingdom of Cleveland for inclusion into the Celtic Alliance, initial out going polls indicate that the vote is has been no, however votes will be finished counting on the 27th with the results announced on the 28th.

28th May 2010

At 10am the results of the referendum on the Kingdom of Cleveland joining the Celtic Alliance. The vote was as follows:

■Yes - 17% ■No - 83% the voter turn out was 78%.

Prime Minster Mallon makes a statement at 11am, that the people of Cleveland had spoken, but just because the vote had been no, that trade relations were just as good as before the referendum.

2010 election results

Election day was on the 2nd June, results were announced on the 4th June:

■Prime Minster Mallon's Royalist party wins fouth election with a small majority of 14 seats, ■The Labour party is second with 11 seats ■The Conservative Party on 7 seats, ■There are 2 independents. ■The Liberal democrats have one seat. voter turn out was 62%

10th June 2010

Prime Minster Mallon announces that the number of MP's in the next election will be increased from 35 to 60, this will involve dividing some rural constituencies into smaller areas as well as including villages and surrounding areas claimed on the 14th May 2010. He says that increasing the numbers of MP's will help with the voting in of new laws as currently there are too many hung parliaments over legislative votes.

He also states that the next election will be in the 1st week in May 2015 and that the length of any parliament will be a maximum of five years.

Lost Nuke

12th June

Three teenagers are admitted to James Cook Hospital suffering severe radiation sickness, all three of their families are also suffering but with much less severity. An investigation by the army finds that all three had been on a camping trip within 3 days of being admitted to hospital. An army team is dispatched to the area of thick woodland near Hamsterley. The teenagers all die between the 16th and 18th of June.

13th June Army personnel with the help of Cleveland mountain rescue begin searching the thick woodland, by mid morning an area has been located with above normal radiation levels. At 4pm two army personnel discover a 2 metre wide 50cm deep crater in the woods, it is surrounded by an area of dead trees, this area has extremely high levels of radiation, the army personnel retreat to a safe distance and then seal off the area.

14th June Radiation specialists make their way into the sealed area, they begin digging in the small crater discovered the previous day. After digging for about and hour they start to discover shards of metal, by mid morning they have exposed a large metal object approximately 1 metre long and 50 cm diameter, it is producing vast amounts of radioactivity.

Photos are taken and a weapons specialist in Middlesbrough identifies the object as a 100 kilotonne nuclear warhead.

15th June The radiation specialists seal the warhead in a double lead lined, totally sealed transport box and the warhead is removed from the woodland. Unknown to the local population the warhead is transported to the coast and onto a waiting boat, this boat carries the warhead to the deepest point of the North sea and it is sunk at that place.

22nd June 2010 Dr James McClaren, Archbishop of Durham announces that Durham Cathedral will be restored to pre DD condition. Durham Catherdral was badly damaged during the 100 Kilotonne bombing of Durham City, ground zero of the blast was approximately 2 Km east of the Cathedral over the industrial Gilesgate Moor area of the City. most of the windows facing the explosion were blown out and some damage was sustained to the roof of the east end. Radiation levels have now reached safe levels. Repairing will take roughly 10 years and is expected to be compleated by 2020.

At the same time PM Mallon announces that Durham Castle will also be rebuilt and be used as a base for the Cleveland Military as the meander of the River is easy to defend and can be used for short expeditions into the radioactive north.

18th July 2010

Prime Minster Mallon announces a referendum for joining the Organisation of British Nations as a member state, the vote will be on October 22nd.

28th August 2010

Prime Minster Ray Mallon announces that he is going to retire at the next election in May 2015 (at which point he'll be 60 years old), at that election the deputy Prime Minster Harry Jackman will take the leadership of the Royalist Party.

Late August 2010

Rheged representatives contact the Cleveland government about worrying military developments in the New Scottish State. Cleveland agree to send 500 TA personnel as well as 40 cavelary units to the north Rheged border, after talks with King George of Northumbria they send a further 100 militia personnel as well as 50 archers.

7th September 2010

Local Northallerton mountaineer Alan Hinkes announces that he will lead a team to Nepal in 2011 with hopes of becoming the first Clevelander to climb Mount Everest. He is due to fly from Dublin via Sicily and the UAE to Kathmandu in January with hopes of climbing to base camp by mid March and making a summit run in late May.

Royal visit of King Andrew of New Britain

1st October 2010

At 10am King Andrew of New Britain arrives in the port of Hartlepool, he is met by PM Mallon and several hundred Cleveland citizens, he is transported by train to the captial Middlesbrough where he meets Princess Regent Zara (his niece) and her two young sons, he has lunch at the parliment buildings in Nunthorpe.

After Lunch he travels by car to the Royal Palace at Wynyard to meet with his sister Queen Anne II and her husband James, while there he also meets with King George I of Northumbria and the Royal family of Percy from Northumbria. He spends the night in the palace of Wynyard.

2nd October 2010

King Andrew accompanied by the Princess Regent Zara begins a tour of the Kingdom of Cleveland, they start by visiting the Cathedrel of Ripon where he consicrates a memorial to the victims of Doomsday. he then travels on to open a new rail line in Harrogate and then onto Whitby where he is presented with a jet sculpture. He then returns to the Royal palace at Wynyard for the evening.

3rd October 2010

King Andrew is announced as Prince Michael of York's new Godfather at sunday service at the Church of St Mary's of Norton before heading back to Hartlepool where he reboards the New Britian ship and leaves port at 1pm local time to return to his new home.

Mid October 2010

The expected invasion of North Rheged by the New Scottish State army has not, so far, occured. Northumbria has withdrawn all it's troops from North Rheged and Cleveland has withdrawn it's Cavelary units as well as 200 TA personnel. The remaining 300 personnel will remain in Rheged to train the newly formed Rheged militia. They will also develop a border with the New Scottish State with a communication link with Cleveland.

22nd October

After successful the investigations and scientific measurements of the bombed cities of Durham, York, Newcastle, and Sunderland the exclusion zones around the cities have been reduced. York and Durham exclusion zones are reduce to half a mile from the detonation point, Newcastle and Sunderland exclusion zones are reduced to 1 mile from the detonation point.

Although the exclusion zones have been reduced the inhabiting or farming the area are still classed as too high a risk, however managing the woodlands for building materials is now allowed, as the wood has been found to have minimal to no radiation present.

24th October 2010

After counting all vote cost in the referendum about joining the OBN on the 22nd of October, results are announced on Sunday 24th October, they are as follows:

■total number of registered voters for referendum - 113,567 ■total number of (non spolied ballots) votes cast - 98,752 Results

■Yes to joining OBN - 69,894 ■No to joining OBN - 28,858