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 warhead, 100 kilotonnes

This 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 explosion 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.

The second warhead, 100 kilotonnes

This exploded less than five minutes later, 7 miles off the coast north east of the port town of Hartlepool, due to a malfunction of the detonator it detonated on the seabed 40 metres beneath the North Sea.

Upon detonation it created a five metre radioactive tsunami which struck the coastline killing many thousands in the towns of Hartlepool, Saltburn, Redcar, Marske, Dormanstown and Seaton Carew as the wave travelled up the River Tees the wave increased in height to almost 8 metres due to the funnelling effect of the riverbanks the wave then hit the towns of North Ormesby, Old Middlesbrough, Port Clarence, High Clarence, low lying areas of Billingham, the Stockton-on-Tees riverside and as far upstream as Yarm.

Newport Bridge at Middlesbrough collapsed after it was hit on its north side pier by a loose tugboat. Victoria Bridge in Stockton was seriously damaged by the wave and took 10 years to remair to a point where it was useable again.

In Hartlepool the wave washed clean across the headland washing all buildings into the sea and in Saltburn the wave destroyed the Victorian pier. The explosion formed a crater three quarter of a mile wide and 100 feet deep 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, recent samples of the sediment in the crater shows that although the bottom of the sediments are highly radioactive the surface sediments are practically non-radioactive.

The third warhead, 100 kilotonnes

In June 2010 a third warhead was found. The unexploded 100 kilotonne warhead had cracked open on impact and was located in thick woodland close to the village of Hamsterley near Bishop Auckland. The leaking radioactive material killed the three teenagers who had discovered it while on a camping trip. (They had picked up the metal radioactive core and brought it into their campside.) The warhead was removed and disposed of in a sealed double lined lead transport box in the deepest point of the North Sea.

Weather on DD

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 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

First three months after Doomsday
Due to extensive education about the after effects of a nuclear bomb attack the British people knew that the priority 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 of the area and low amounts of food to be found, the majority of the people from this city who travel this way 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.

Within 3 days anyone who had been in hospital throughout the area had either died due to complications or had been relesed into family care, at the same time elderly people in care homes, who have no family help, begin dying due to carers leaving them to look after their own families. It is estimated that nearly 1000 people die due to these problems.

Many people who had existing health problems on DD, such as diabetic and people requiring heart medication, died within 2 weeks of Doomsday as existing medication ran out. It is approximated that between 5000 and 6500 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. Around 45,000 people take shelter in the mines, 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, travelling with her at the time of the attack was her two year old daughter Zara.

By late October the first snows of winter had begun falling, as day time temperatures fell well below freezing many thousands of refugees (many experts estimate over 10,000) who had not found shelter froze to death. People who had survived the cold, starvation, disease and radioactive fallout also had the threat of attack from dogs which had become feral and began attacking people as a food source.

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 527 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

 * See main page: History of Cleveland 1984 to 2005

News
Archive : 2010

24th November 2010

It was announced that due to her ongoing problems associated with her injuries recieved in April, Queen Anne II will step down from the throne of the Kingdom of Cleveland on the 31st December 2010, at that point Princess Regent Zara will accend to the throne as Queen Zara, her coronation date has been set at 15th January 2011.

4th December 2010

Prime Minster Mallon announces that in 2011, after discussions with fellow OBN members, is to start production of offshore oil and gas rigs to tap the reserves under the North Sea off the coasts of the former East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast, plans are underway to lay pipelines coming ashore in North Norfolk at the port of Lowestoft, Mablethorpe in South Lincolnshire and Hornsea in East Yorkshire.

Three rigs will be built to start with, hopefully if the venture is successful more will be built in the future.

The pumping of oil and gas should be underway sometime in 2012, oil and gas will be made into a varity of products ranging from gas for heating, petrol and diesal for military and agriculatral use and materials for Tarmac for roads.

12th December 2010

Head of the Cleveland Wildlife Trust Simon Garside announces that in 2012, 10 European beavers donated from the Nordic Alliance will be relesed into the Tyne and Wear Nation Park. It is hoped that over the next few years European Elk (Moose), Red Deer and possibly European Lynx could be relesed into the National Park.

Upcoming events

 * 31st Decemeber 2010 - Abdication of Queen Anne II and the accession of the throne by Queen Zara.


 * 5th January 2011 - Referendum in East Yorkshire to become part of Kingdom of Cleveland


 * 10th January 2011 - CBC1 TV begins test broadcasts


 * 12th January 2011 - CBC1 TV begins broadcasting daily TV broadcasts.
 * 15th January 2011 - Coronation day for Queen Zara.


 * 4th March 2011 - expected beginning of construction work on oil and gas platforms and pipelines.

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 and Sedgefield Council
 * West and South Hartlepool 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 currently no television in the Kingdom of Cleveland as very few people in the area had the knowledge to get it working again after doomsday. However due to trade links with the Celtic Alliance it is hoped that one television station (which will be called CBC 1) will begin transmitting in early 2011, it is expected that one of the first programmes broadcast will be the coronation of Queen Zara in January 2011.

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 sea along the east coast to Woodbridge, Essex and East Britain.

Trade routes by sea


 * Worldwide - East Caribbean Federation,Prussia, The Nordic Union, The Celtic Alliance, and Canada

The steel works at Redcar came fully back online in August 2008, in 2008 it began making rail lines for the Cleveland railway system as well as for export to Lancaster. In May 2010 it began to make sheet steel for a new shipyard based on the south bank of the Tees that has began to build a new type of cargo ships based on WW2 Liberty ships.

In 2010 PM Mallon announces that trade relations have been established with the East Caribbean Federation, Cleveland is hoping to start importing more tropical items such as pineapples, banana's, sugar and cotton in exchange for coal, steel, and electric wind generators. Cleveland hopes to use newly developed clipper type ships which will do the journey across the north Atlantic and around northern Scotland to the main port at Hartlepool in roughly 12 days. Due to the extreame rarity of these items they are expensive and are usually only bought by higher paid citizens of Cleveland.

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 - made of silver
 * 20 pence or 2 shilling coin - silver coloured
 * 10 pence or 1 shilling coin - silver coloured
 * 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.

In 2011 with the accession of Queen Zara to the throne the currency of Cleveland will change it's 'heads' side to show a portrait of the new Queen, the portrait will be facing to the left (where as the portrait of Queen Anne II was facing to the right). The currency showing Queen Anne II will be withdrawn from circulation in 2015.

Public Holidays
from 1st January 2010 all public holidays are shared with the Kingdom of Northumbria.


 * 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).
 * 31st October - All Hallows Eve.
 * 17th November - Saint Hilda's day - patron saint of Cleveland.
 * 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
See main article : Royalty in the Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday)

Expeditions

 * See main article:

Religion
Like many places after Doomsday many people turned towards religion as a way of understanding what had happened. 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 bases in the area.

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 Paganism 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
See main article :Sport in Cleveland

Education
Education in Cleveland is mandatory from the age of 5 till the age of 14. After the age of 14 children can leave full time education to take up a trained apprentiship or continue in education until the age of 16 when they take the General Certificate of Education (G.C.E.) exams.

G.C.E. exams are a choice of 4 from the list of the following, either Science, English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Geography, World History, Irish/Scottish Language, and Metalwork/Woodwork.

Further Education
Further education takes place from the age of 16 to 18, students choose two subjects to continue from G.C.E. level (providing they passed the exams with a appropreate level) at the end of which the students take the A -level exams.

After the age of 18 student can continue to Higher Education at one of the local Universities to study a variety of subjects.

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 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.

From the 14th November the Kingdom of Cleveland (along with the Kingdom of Northumbria) are members of the Organisation of British Nations