Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday)

The Kingdom of Cleveland is located on the east coast of England

Doomsday
At approximately 2am on the 26th Sept 1983 nuclear weapons begin detonating over the United Kingdom.

At approximately 2.20am the two of the three 100 kiloton missiles aimed for the Tees valley area detonated, however they missed their designated targets due to electromagnetic interference from the detonations in the Tyne and Wear valleys. The third missile was also off-course and failed to detonate, remaining missing for almost 27 years.


 * The first 100 kilotonne warhead exploded 7 miles off the coast north east of the port town of Hartlepool, on the seabed 40 metres beneath the North Sea due to a malfunction of the detonator. upon detonation it created a five metre radioactive tsunami to strike the coast killing many thousands in the towns of Hartlepool, Redcar, Marske, Warrenby, Southbank and Dormanstown. It also formed a three quarter of a mile wide 100 feet deep crater on the seafloor, after the detonation the crater immediately began filling with sediment from the River Tees and also from Longshire drift from the north, samples of the sediment in the crater shows that although the bottom of the sediments are highly radioactive the surface sediments are practically nonradioactive.


 * The second warhead also 100 kilotonnes. It exploded 12 miles south of Middlesbrough in the practically uninhabited North Yorkshire Moors after burying itself 30 feet underground in a peat bog, between Farndale, Rosedale and Westerdale. This created a half mile wide, 90 feet deep crater that has since filled with water forming a radioactive lake that began draining down Westerdale to the North Sea at Whitby in 1998, the water flowing from the crater was found to be slightly radioactive and in order to reduce the radioactivity in Whitby a dam was placed in Westerdale in 1999 and when the water was 1 meter deep it was planted with water reeds as these are known to absorb chemicals, particles and other pollutants. Studies taken in 2004 showed that the reeds had stopped 98% of the radiation downstream and were judged a success.


 * In June 2010 the third warhead was finally found. The unexploded 100 kilotonne warhead was located in thick woodland close to the village of Hamsterley near Bishop Auckland. Leaking radioactive material killed the three teenagers who had discovered it while on a camping trip. The warhead was removed and disposed of in a sealed double lined lead transport box in the deepest point of the North Sea.

The weather at the time of the bombing was a temperature about freezing point, a north easterly wind blowing at 15 miles per hour, with thick sea fog up to ten miles inland. Due to the detonations the fog cleared almost instantly and high level clouds formed, these produced heavy rain over the next three days.

Although the bombs themselves missed, radioactive fallout, particularly from the bomb that exploded in the North sea blew inland on the prevailing North-east winds and then fell in rain that fell in the following three days.

Other Bombs in the North of England fell:
 * one 200 kiloton bomb on Newcastle.
 * one 200 Kiloton bomb on Sunderland.
 * one 100 Kiloton bomb on Durham.
 * one 100 Kiloton bomb on York.

Other tactical nuclear weapons (approximately 5 - 10 Kilotonnes) fell on military bases in and around the area:


 * Catterick Garrison - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Menwith Hill - North Yorkshire.
 * RAF Linton on Ouse - North Yorkshire - shared with the United States Air Force.
 * RAF listening base and radar station Fylingdales - North Yorkshire.
 * RAF Bulmer - Northumberland.
 * RAF Menwith Hill - joint UK/US base - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Carlisle - Cumbria
 * RAF Spadeadam - Cumbria
 * RAF Holmpton - East Yorkshire
 * RAF Leconfield - East Yorkshire
 * RAF Church Fenton - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Dishforth (Airforce)/AAC Dishforth (Army) - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Leeming - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Radar station Staxton Wold - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Topcliffe - North Yorkshire

After Doomsday
Due to extensive education about the after effects of a nuclear bomb attack the British people knew that the priory after an attack was to stay in shelter a minimum of 3 days, five would be better. However people living close to the cities of Durham and Sunderland began moving south and east towards the Tees valley and Yorkshire as soon as the sun came up on the morning of the 26th September. This was mainly due to the fact that the high cloud base was reflecting the colour of burning everywhere else.

Many people in Newcastle and the surrounding suburbs spread north and west however due to the sparce population and low amounts of food in the area the majority of the people from this city die within 2 months due to starvation, radiation sickness, hypothermia and infighting with other refugees.

Due to people being outside as the radioactive fall out was still coming down the majority of the refugees would die within the next two weeks of radiation based illness and hypothermia as night time temperature fall well below freezing. Mass graves are dug near the town of Sedgefield it is estimated that 175,000+ people are buried in these mass graves as exact figures are hard to come by as records are so sparse from this time.

By 12pm on the 27th September heavy rain begins to fall over the entire area. It rained solidly for the next 36 hours, this helped wash away radioactive dust and also helped extinguish the burning ruins of Sunderland, Newcastle, Durham and York as the radioactive soot formed by the burning was beginning to fall across the area.

Many people who had existing health problems died within 2 weeks of Doomsday as existing medication ran out. It is approximated that between 2000 and 2500 died in Cleveland due to medication running out.

Over the next month radioactive fallout kills over nearly two thirds of the total population of the Tees valley area (roughly 150,000 people). Many of those who survive take shelter in underground anhydrite, coal and potash mines located around the area. Among the notable survivors is Princess Anne (only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II) who was opening a disabled riding school outside Middlesbrough at the time of the attack, traveling with her at the time of the attack was her two year old daughter Zara.

In December 1983 and outbreak of vomiting and diarrhea occurs in the mines, it is determined that it was caused by the unsanitary conditions throughout the mines, the most senior police officer in the mines Ray Mallon, makes one part of the mine the latrines and made the furthest away part of the mines the food preparation and storage area, once leaving the latrines people must wash their hands, arms and feet and lower legs to reduce cross contamination. However the outbreak had taken the lives of 227 people, mostly very young (under 3), the elderly (over 70) and people with existing health problems.

Survivors stayed underground as long as possible with scavenging parties collection food and water from the surface and returning it to the mines for the rest of the survivors.

Due to the failure of the electricity grids the mines begin to flood by January 1984 and they had to be abandoned.

History of Cleveland - Post Doomsday
Upon the abandonment of the mines in early 1984 the Cleveland police force incorporated all surviving territorial army personnel into the new armed police units. These militant units initiate martial law in Cleveland in mid 1984. Marshall law lasted until 1991 when a parliament of local representatives was established, based in the town hall of Middlesbrough, elections were scheduled for 1995.

1984

In May the temporary government announces several decrees:
 * All non or low radiated parklands, gardens, and open spaces are to be turned over to agriculture. It has been ascertained by the local allotment associations the a patch of land 10 feet by 10 feet can feed a family of five when planted properly.


 * The irradiated area around the coast of the former town of Hartlepool will be left to return to the wild, any remaining survivors will be evacuated to the small towns south of Middlesbrough.


 * Every person in the counties of Cleveland, Durham and North Yorkshire who are healthy and between the ages of 18 and 40 shall serve a minimum of 6 months in the armed services.


 * Quarantine zones are to be set up around the nuked cities of Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham and York ranging from 30 miles for Newcastle and Sunderland (200 kilotonne blasts) and 20 miles for Durham and York (100 kilotonne blast) as well as an exclusion zone around each city where the heaviest radioactive fallout is located. Any population still living in these area are to be evacuated to less radiated areas.


 * Exclusion zones to be planted with trees to help bury any radioactivity and reduce the amount making its way into watercourses, planting started in 1990.





1995 Elections

The first elections take part in the Tees Valley, there are 20 MP's. The new government is Royalist with the Prime Minster being named as former Cleveland Police Officer Ray Mallon. Princess Anne become a the constitutional monarch Queen Anne II. Under proposals by the new government the name of the area reverted to its ancient name of Cleveland and become a constitutional parlimentary Kingdom, Middlesbrough is named as the captial. Its new motto is incorporated as 'nos vadum oririi hortus iterium', Latin for 'We shall rise again'.

1995 census

The total population of the Kingdom of Cleveland stands as 104,271. With over 735,000 deaths from the coastal tsunami, radioactivity, starvation, social unrest, disease and general accidents.

In 1996 the non-radiated parts of the former counties of North Yorkshire and Durham become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

In 1999 many of the coal mines in Durham are reopened by royal decree, these start producing coal in early 2000 and by 2002 are producing 50,000 tonnes of coal per year.

2000 elections

Prime Minster Mallon's Royalist party wins second election with 8 seats, however with a reduced majority, the Labour party becomes the opposition party with Tony Blair as it's leader with 5 seats, the Conservative party come third with 2 seats.

One of the first things PM Mallon does is to re-institute the former UK National Parks of the North Yorkshire Moors and Yorkshire Dales. However due to explosion of a 100 kilotonne nuclear weapon in the North Yorkshire Moors an area 30 miles across is excluded from the national park.

NRCO towns

5th May 2004 - NRCO towns of Dunforth, Ouseburn, Flaxby, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Tadcaster vote to become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland adding 19,458 to the population of the Kingdom.

12th May 2004 - all NRCO towns in the former county of North Yorkshire join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding 5,623 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

22nd May 2004 - the final NRCO towns of Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Hawes voted to join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding another 2,789 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland

1st June 2004 - 15 new MP's join the Cleveland parliament from the former NRCO territories.

2005 census

With the addition of the former NRCO towns in 2004, the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland is 198,274. Deaths due to cancer and birth malformations caused by the radioactivity are beginning to reduce dramatically over the past 5 years.

Health Secretary James Shanley declares that the overall health of the people of Cleveland is actually higher now than it was at the beginning of 1983 due to the changes in general diet and alcohol intake levels and mainly due to the fact that the amount of smokers in the country is now practically zero.

2005 elections

Prime Minster Mallon's Royalist party wins third election with a large majority of 22 seats, the Labour party is second with 6 seats and the Conservative Party on 4 seats, there are 3 independants.

NEWS
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. Trade routes will be set up with the colony of East Britain in the former East Riding of Yorkshire based in Hull.

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.

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

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.

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.

Law changes
Capital punishment

New laws were brought into effect after the elections in 1995, the death penalty was reintroduced in Cleveland for murder, paedophilia, rape, treason and armed theft. The method of death was introduced as long drop hanging.

Life term prison sentences were increased from the average pre-DD UK term of 15-20 years to life being 99 years.

Hard labour for life prison inmates in introduced in 2000, hard labour consist of road building, laying of railway lines, land clearing, mining, tree planting in exclusion zones and demolition works.

In 2005 the death penalty was rescinded for rape and armed theft, the sentence will now be life in prison with hard labour.

In 2007 the death penalty for paedophilia is rescinded with the sentence now chemical castration followed by life with hard labour.

Corporal punishment

In 2004 new laws were introduced, for minor law breaking such as mugging, burglary, general theft, assault, drunk and disorderly and general public disorder the punishment was between 12 and 48 hours in stocks (in 6 hour stints)

The stocks set up on the main shopping street of Linthorpe Road outside the former parliment building in Middlesbrough. The stocks are set up so that the prisoner is seated on a wooden bench (they can pay extra, about five pounds, for a cushion - money goes to a local orphanage) and his or her feet are secured at the ankles. Above the stocks are a small roof (mainly to keep the rain off the prisoner) and from the roof hangs a banner showing the name and crime of the person in the stocks.

In total there are four stocks and only once have they all been filled at the same time, this was in 2002 after Middlesbrough FC had beaten Darlington FC 6-0 and all four people in the stocks had been arrested for drunk and disorderly offenses.

Penal system

There are two small prisons in Cleveland (one in Yarm and one in Guisborough), however they are mainly used for holding before sentencing or before the death penalty is undertaken. As well as the stocks there is also the option of community service, ranging from 200 hours to 1500 hours it is to be served building new railways, working the land on state owned farmland, working in the coal mines or working at a local recyling centre sifting incoming rubbish.

Marriage laws

On 22nd December 1996 a governmental decree states that the age for marriage in the Kingdom of Cleveland has, firstly, been raised from 16 (with parental permission) to 18, this is mainly due to the number of children who had lost both parents before the age of 16, and that secondly, that marriage by law was between two adults (with no mention of sex of the adults)

League of Nations Membership
2nd October 2009 - Queen Anne II and Prime Minster Mallon of the Kingdom of Cleveland as well as King George I of Northumbria send a message to the Tongan King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV Secretary General of the League of Nations asking for admitance as a joint country due to their future unification after the accession of Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland and Crown Prince George of Northumbria.

Climate
Before DD the general climate of Cleveland was relatively mild with an average summer temperature of 19 Celsius with heatwaves of 30 Celsius, and average winter temperature of 5 Celsius with some cold snaps of minus 5 Celsius. Snow fall was rare with only 2 to 4 inches on average per year.

After DD it took several years for the new global climate to settle in. In the last 10 years the average summer temperature has risen slightly to 25 Celsius with heatwaves above 40 Celsius. During winter however the temperature now drops to an average of minus 10 Celsius and cold snaps below minus 25 Celsius. Snowfall now averages 2 to 3 feet per year.

Politics and Councils
There are currently five main political parties in the Kingdom of Cleveland


 * Royalists - led by Ray Mallon, current leading party. - 14 seats
 * Labour Party - led by Tony Blair, current opposition party. - 11 seats
 * Conservatives - led by James Gaddas. - 7 seats
 * Liberal Democrats - led by Jacquie Bell. - 1 seat
 * Green Party - led by Helen Hodgson. (currently hold no seats in Parliment)
 * there are two independant Parlimentarians

The Kingdom of Cleveland is split into several seperate councils that run the day to day business of the Kingdom, these are:


 * Central Tees Valley Council- covers Middlesbrough and Stockton
 * Redcar and East Cleveland Council
 * Darlington Council
 * North Yorkshire Council
 * Yorkshire Coast Council
 * East Yorkshire Council
 * Durham Council
 * Sedgefield Council
 * North Cleveland Council

Councils run the cleaning of the streets, bin collection, recycling, maintainance of minor roads, parks(shrubs, trees, cutting grassed areas etc), and street lighting.

Current Situation

 * See main article: Current situation - Kingdom of Cleveland

Media
TV

There is no television in the Kingdom of Cleveland as very few people in the area had the knowledge to get it working again after doomsday.

RADIO

Radio is the major form of mass media in the Kingdom of Cleveland with three national stations:
 * 98.1FM - Radio 1, mainly music from post doomsday
 * 100.7FM - Century Radio, music from pre-doomsday
 * 89.2FM - Radio Cleveland, music, discussions, phone in's etc.

There are several local radio stations
 * Yorkshire Radio - inland Yorkshire
 * TFM - Tees valley Radio station
 * Highlands Radio - covering the high ground of the Pennines
 * Durham Radio - Covering the areas in County Durham.
 * Yorkshire Coast Radio - Covering the coast from the Humber to the Tees

NEWSPAPERS

there are many newspapers in the Kingdom of Cleveland, many are locally produced papers for individual towns and villages however there are some national papers:
 * Evening Gazette, daily (not Sunday) three different publications, Central Tees Valley, Yorkshire, and Durham
 * Northern Echo, daily (not Sunday)
 * The Times (originally the Stockton and Darlington Times but expanded to countrywide)

Trade
The main exports of the Kingdom of Cleveland are as follows:


 * Potash - used for fertilizer for crops.
 * Wool.
 * Coal
 * Iron and steel.
 * Electric wind generators.

Trade route have been set up across land


 * North - by rail, to Northumbria and by 2011 the Celtic Alliance (Glasgow).
 * West - by road as far as the lowlands of the Pennines, and by 2012 by rail to Rheged and Lancaster and the west coast.
 * South - rail to the former NRCO towns and by 2012 East Britain in Hull and by sea along the east coast to Woodbridge, Essex and East Britain.
 * East - by sea, trade negotiations are underway with Nordic Union.

Currency
Between Doomsday and 1999 the Kingdom of Cleveland continued to use the old UK Pound Stirling, after the new government of Cleveland was introduced in 1995 tenders were sent out to designers for the design of the new currency.

The new Cleveland pound was introduced in 1997 and was used in conjuction with the old Pound Stirling coinage (with a £1 stirling = £1 cleveland) until 1999 when the old coinage and notes were removed from circulation.

The currency of the Kingdom of Cleveland is the pound (£), this is divided into 10 shillings (S) and each shilling is worth 10 pence (P) (therefore 100 pence to the pound)

The pound is fixed to the price of gold, with each pound coin is made of 9 carat gold at the weight of 0.5 gram.

The coinage in Cleveland is:


 * 1 Pound coin - gold
 * 50 pence or 5 shilling coin - silver
 * 20 pence or 2 shilling coin - silver
 * 10 pence or 1 shilling coin - silver
 * 5 pence coin - copper
 * 2 pence coin - copper
 * 1 pence coin - copper

There are also two paper notes produced in the mint located in Darlington these are:
 * 10 pound note
 * 5 pound note

The notes designs feature the Queen's face on one side of the note with the Cleveland flag in the background. The reverse side changes every 10 years to stop forgery. Currently the 10 pound note has George Stephenson on the back and the 5 pound note has Captain James Cook on the reverse.

Public Holidays

 * 1st January - New Years Day.
 * 20th March - Saint Cuthbert's day - Patron saint of Northumbria.
 * Good Friday.
 * Monday after Easter Sunday.
 * May Bank Holiday - 1st Monday and Tuesday in May.
 * Summer Holiday - 1st Monday and Tuesday in July.
 * Late Summer Bank Holiday - last Monday and Tuesday in August.
 * 26th September - Doomsday Memorial day (if on a weekend the following Monday is holiday).
 * 17th November - Saint Hilda's day - patron saint of Cleveland.
 * 31st October - All Hallows Eve.
 * December 25th and 26th - Christmas Day and Boxing Day (if on a weekend then follwing Monday and Tuesday are public holiday).

The Government of Cleveland pays for free train journeys to Blackpool in the Duchy of Lancaster, the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire Coast (particularly Scarborough and Whitby) during the May bank Holiday, Summer Holiday and Late Summer Bank Holiday. Tickets are distributed by prior application.

During the public holidays there are two trains per day running to Blackpool via the Yorkshire Dales town of Skipton and three trains a day running to Scarborough and Whitby.

Royalty
The coronation of Queen Anne II takes place at Gisborough Abbey on the 15th August 1997 (on her 47th birthday), the crown is made of gold donated by the people of Cleveland.

In 2002 Queen Anne II married local man James Monroe in the ruins of Gisborough Abbey. The heir to the Crown, Princess Zara was one of the bridesmaids.

In 2004 Queen Anne II and Prince Consort James adopt three children, Prince Martin aged 8, Prince Jordan aged 5 and Princess Michala aged 3. All three adopted children are in line to the throne, and if Crown Princess Zara dies before producing heirs then the Throne of Cleveland will pass to Prince Martin.

Unification of the crowns
On the 22nd April 2007 it is announced that Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland is dating the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy.

On the 5th August 2008 it is announced that Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland is engaged the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy.

The wedding date was set for 4th November 2009. Princess Michala was a flower girl, Prince Jordan was a page boy, Prince Max Percy (Crown Prince George's younger brother) was best man.

The wedding took place at Richmond Castle.

This wedding and any children issuing from the marriage will unite the Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland. It has been announced that the primogenitor rule (male children having right of rule over older female siblings) has been abolished and the eldest child (no matter what sex) will rule both the kingdom of Northumbria and Cleveland.

Upon the accession of the then Queen Zara and King George to their respective thrones the kingdoms will unite under the name United Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland or the UKNC.

Upon the accession of the first child of Zara and George to both thrones (Prince Michael James George Percy, Duke of York, Earl of Richmond), the kingdoms will become the Kingdom of Albion.

The name of Albion was chosen as it is the name that was originally given to the former British Isles. Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History says "It was itself named Albion, while all the islands about which we shall soon briefly speak were called the Britanniae."

On New Years Day 2010 it was announced from the Royal Palace at Wynyard that the Crown Princess Zara and her husband Crown Prince George are expecting their first child, it is expected to be born mid August.

15th May 2010 it was announced from the Royal Palace at Wynyard that the Princess Regent Zara is expecting identical twin boys.

9th August 2010, as 4.13am Princess Regent Zara, accompanied by Crown Prince George attended James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. At 4.42pm Princess Regent Zara gave birth to a baby boy (weighing 5 pounds 6 ounces) called Michael James George Percy and at 4.57pm she gave birth to another baby boy (5 pounds 2 ounces) called Edward Henry John Percy. Both boys are healthy.

Preparations are underway for Queen Anne's 60th birthday on the 15th August, although she is still badly incapacitated due to the brain injury she incurred in April it is thought that she will be attending the national celebrations in the centre of Middlesbrough.

15th August 2010 - Although the Queen is in bad health she still insisted that she took part in the celebrations, a 45 gun salute was fired from the royal park at Wynyard and a 25 gun salute was fired from naval vessels off the coast of Cleveland, a military parade followed by a parade of civilian groups past the royal party which with great surprise included the Princess Regent Zara and the two newborn princes.

The Queen gave a short speech thanking the people of her country for showing her so much support during the past few months. After the Queen had given her speech the Queen and the Princess Regent formally introduce the Royal Princes to the crowds and announce that the Princes have been given their royal titles. Prince Michael will become the Duke of York and Earl of Richmond and will be known as Prince Michael of York and Prince Edward will become the Earl of Durham and Marquess of Raby and be known as Prince Edward of Durham.

Queen Anne II accident
17th April 2010 at roughly 1pm, Queen Anne II suffers a fall from her horse whilst riding in the Eston Hills.

Originally transferred to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough it is ascertained that she has suffered a major head injury and has bleeding on the brain, this is beyond the medical capabilities of the Cleveland Hospital Service.

A radio call is placed to the Celtic Alliance asking for assistance. They decide to send an air ambulance helicopter to recover the Queen and take her to St James's hospital in Dublin which is a more advanced hospital.

The helicopter arrives at 8pm and takes off at 8.15pm heading west.

At 9.45pm the helicopter sends out a mayday call saying it is having engine difficulties and is having to make an emergency landing. After that mayday call all contact with the air ambulance helicopter is lost.

In the early morning of the 18th April radio contact from the Rheged Co-opertive in Keswick, they describe a burning fellside to the east of the town, mountain rescue teams head to the area and arrive just after dawn on the 18th they find the air ambulance crash site, amazingly there are survivors, the co-pilot, main paramedic and Queen Anne II have survived the crash however the queen is in serious condition.

All survivors are evacuated to Keswick. Once in Keswick the Queen's health begins to deteriorate quickly, local historian John McDowell gives a possible idea to the local doctor, Trepanation. Seeing that this is the only option a temporary operating theatre is set up in the Moot Hall in the centre of the town. The operation begins at 12.30 pm on the 18th April, it takes 2 hours to do the operation which is decided it has been a limited success and by 6 pm the Queen is showing signs of regaining consciousness.

By the morning of the 19th April Queen Anne II has regained consciousness however it is obvious that some damage has occurred to the Queen's brain as she is paralyzed down her left side and is having major problems with her short term memory retention.

It is decided to evacuate the Queen to St James's hospital in Dublin where she was originally heading. Queen Anne II is loaded onto another air ambulance helicopter on the 20th of April. It lands in Dublin at 3pm.

Scans of the Queen brain on the morning of the 21st show that the bleed has stopped, and the trepanation saved her life, however the delay in treatment has caused some permenant brain damage.

Prime Minster Ray Mallon arrives at her bedside on the night of the 21st along with Crown Princess Zara and Queen Anne's Husband Prince consort James.

After discussions between the Queen, Prime Minster and Crown Princess it is decided to transfer the Queen's responsibilities to the Crown Princess until a point where they can be transferred back or kept permanently by the Crown Princess. This is announced in the Kingdom of Cleveland at 5pm on the 22nd April. From the 23rd April Crown Princess Zara becomes the Crown Regent Zara.

An investigation by a joint Celtic Alliance/Cleveland task force discovers that a volcano in southern Iceland had erupted and the crash was caused by the engine of the helicopter becoming clogged with glass formed from ash taken in and melted on the engine parts.

Expeditions

 * See main article:

Religion
Like many places after Doomsday many people turned towards religion as a way of understanding what had happen. However over the following years many began turning away from organised religion and returning to more ancient religious forms)

Christianity

The Anglican Church which had its base locally in York survived well due the the Bishop of Durham Stuart Blanch and the Archbishop of York John Habgood surviving as they were in retreat together discussing the assession of Stuart Blanch to become the new Archbishop of York which was planned to happen in early October 1983.

The Catholic Church however was hit hard, with no contact from the British base in Westminster and with the assumption that the Holy See in Rome had been destroyed the church began to crumble and by 1985 it had fallen into almost total collapse with only a few small churchs still functioning.

Others such as the Methodists and Baptists also faired badly as locally there had been no major administration.

By 1999 all the leaders of the Christian Churches meet in a conclave to discuss the future of the Christian Church in Cleveland, it is decided that it will be best for the churches to unify under one name. They decide to take the name of the Church of Albion from the works of the Venerable Bede Historica Ecclesiasica Gentis Anglorum roughly translated as the history of the church in England (Albion) written in 731AD, it was decided to take this name as in 731AD there were no Anglican, Methodist or Baptist Churches, only Catholic.

Several things were decided in the 1999 conclave,


 * The day to day workings of the church will be based on the Catholic masses, however they will be simplified and be taken in English and not Latin.
 * Women will be allowed to be become priests and bishops (not Archbishops)
 * Celabesy will be discontinued.

2005 conclave

In 2005 the Church of Albion decides to make links with the newly discovered Celtic Church in the Celtic Alliance.

It will also approch the churches still existing in Northumbria with the hopes of joining togther to make a stronger church.

2010 Conclave

Several things are discussed during this conclave, Durham Cathedral will be repaired and returned to it's pre-DD state it is also decided to approch the Celtic Church in hopes of unification of the Churches by 2020.

Islam

Although the total population of Muslims in Cleveland is realativly low there is a large population in central Middlesbrough, it is known locally as little Mecca. There are currently three main Mosques in Middlesbrough.

Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddism

Like Islam there are small pockets of Hindu's, Sikh's, Jews and Buddist spread throughout Middlesbrough.

Paganism

After Doomsday many people turned away from the major organised religions and the destruction of doomsday and returned to a more harmonious nature based form of religion. This was more prevelent in the countryside in North and West Yorkshire. One of the first major pagan religious groups to become well established was the Wicca, these worship mother earth and other nature deities, many others groups were set up by former hippies in remote farming communites. In 2007 a major gathering of Pagan groups took place in Whitby at that gathering it was decided that the disperate groups should join together to become more organised, they would be known as the United Reformed Pagan Movement (URPM)

As of the most recent census the religious demographic is as follows:
 * Christian - 45%
 * Paganism (many forms, mainly URPM) - 10%
 * Muslim - 8%
 * Hindu - 2%
 * Jewish - 0.8%
 * Sikh - 0.5%
 * Buddist - 0.2%
 * Atheist/Non-beliver - 33.5%

Language
Since DD Cleveland has been seperated from the rest of the world, as such the Teesside dialect has evolved into a seperate version of English known locally as Cleveish.

Many influences from local ethnic minorities such as Hindu, Urdu, Chinese, Bangladshi, and Arabic. An example of this new language is below(with translation):

Cleveish "Whodder y'men like y'canna't understan yan? There aint nowt wrong with 'ow thee talk. Youse lot just 'aven't been 'ere long enough, another few months and y'll be yakking like the rest of yan!"

Translation - "what do you mean you cannot understand me? there is nothing wrong with how we talk. you lot haven't been here long enough, another few months and you will all talking like the rest of us!"

Cleveish words


 * Tax - to take without owners knowledge
 * Felted - to hide
 * Fettle - to fix something
 * Sneck - lock for a door or gate.
 * Claggy/Clarty - mess or sticky substance, often used about mud. claggy is more localised to Middlesbrough and surrounding area and clarty is more rural.
 * Crogg - an apple stolen during an orchard raid, also know as Oggy Raiding.
 * Cleg - large biting flies found on the moors
 * Fadgie - bread bun.

there are also lots of local names for various peoples around Cleveland


 * Smoggies - people of Middlesbrough (due to the smog from the industrial works)
 * Scaly backs - people from Redcar and other ports
 * Wooly backs - people from Cleveland hills and lower Yorkshire Moors.
 * Tykes - people from West and South Yorkshire
 * Monkey Hangers - people from Hartlepool (due to an old local legend)
 * Poolies - also people from Hartlepool (less offensive then 'Monkey Hanger' and more likely to be used by Hartlepool residents themselves)
 * Pit Yakkers - miners and anyone from a mining town
 * Farm Yakkers - People from North Yorkshire, farmers, and farmworkers. Also used more generally to mean something along the lines of 'country bumpkin'.
 * Sand scratchers - people from Redcar (probably due to people from that area raking sea coal off the beach)
 * Cod heads - people from North Yorkshire fishing ports.

Water
Water in Cleveland comes from various sources, water for the mains supply in Middlesbrough, Darlington, Stockton and surrounding areas is supplied from Cow Green Resevoir on the upper Tees. Many smaller settlements take their water from wells and small streams.

Electricity supply
There are several coal electric power stations working throughout the Kingdom

In early 2002 it is discovered that Hartlepool Nuclear power station has started to become dangerous and it decided that it should be shut down and replaced by 2006. Prime minster Mallon makes an executive order that the power station shall be replaced with a small coal powered station in Durham near the new coal mines and a waste to energy plant (by burning rubbish) on the outskirts of Middlesbrough as well as numerous wind turbines on the local Pennine, Eston and Cleveland hills as well as hydroelectic plants on rivers across the kingdom.

On 23rd July 2006 Prime minster Mallon announces that renewable power generators (wind and hydro-electric) will be built across the former NRCO territories, these will begin generating power by early October 2009 and the NRCO will be 90% powered by mid 2010.

Gas
In 2000 a new coal gas plant is set up in the former county Durham using coal from existing and reopened coal mines in the area.

This gas is piped along the former natural gas pipelines into many homes and businesses in Cleveland.

Sport
Kingdom of Cleveland:Sports (1983:doomsday)

2010 FIFA World Cup
2009 the CFA announces that there will be a national team formed for the FIFA World cup to be played in the Celtic Alliance in 2010. Players can be selected from any team in all three leagues.

Team Cleveland manager has been named as Sir Brian Clough current manager of Middlesbrough FC.

The draw took place in Dublin on December 4th.

The Kingdom of Cleveland are drawn in group C along with:


 * Brazil,
 * USSR (aka Siberia),
 * New Britain.

FIFA World Cup

The Kingdom of Cleveland got to the Quarter finals losing to ANZC 3 - 1

The 2010 FIFA world up was won by the ANZC

Discovery by the Celtic Alliance
In 1997 during a fishing trip from off the east coast of Yorkshire a small Scottish trawler comes across a cobble (small open fishing boat) longline fishing.

The two crews make contact and after visiting the mainland they return to Scotland, setting up trade routes between the Kingdom of Cleveland and the Celtic Alliance.

The Tees valley had been powered by Hartlepool Nuclear power station (which had only been operational since early 1983) however this plant was closed down in 2007 and replaced by a small waste to energy plant and a coal powered plant.

There is a large iron and steel works (which has been mothballed since DD attacks in 1983) and there are several shipyards producing mid sized wooden vessels used for trading up and down the east coast and smaller fishing vessels, the small towns in unaffected areas of Yorkshire have begun farming both arable and livestock as well as fishing from the small ports such as Whitby and Ravenscar.

The Queen Anne International airport (former Teesside international) has been adapted for use as a medical staging points however PM Mallon refuses to allow an end cycle center as he believes that every life is important.

The Kingdom of Cleveland is due to vote on a referendum on becoming part of the Celtic Alliance in mid 2010. However popular opinion is that the Kingdom of Cleveland will remain independent.

The date for the referendum on joining the Celtic Alliance has been announced. On May 21st 2010 the vote will take place, the results will be announced on the 28th May 2010.

28th May 2010

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

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

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.

International relations
The Kingdom of Cleveland is a member of the.

Trade routes have been set up with Rheghed, East Britain, Woodbridge, Celtic Alliance, Duchy of Lancaster, Kingdom of Northumbria, Southern England and Essex