Boring Meeting for Folkestone
24 May 2005
The BBC reports that plans to exhibit a boring machine used to build the Channel Tunnel are causing controversy in Shepway. Planners at Shepway Council want to put the machine, which was sold on the internet site eBay, on display in Folkestone near junction 13 of the M20.
Members of Folkestone Town Council are said to be opposed to the scheme as they claim motorists will be distracted by it. The drill was bought in April 2004 for £39,999 by a Kent man who originally planned to use it for scrap.