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| - 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 boundary will be 20 miles south of the river. PM Mallon also announces that teams will be sent into the East Riding of Yorkshire to survey the area for survivors and any resources that Cleveland would need. 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. 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 Minister 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. Election day was on the 2nd June, results were announced on the 4th June:
* Prime Minister Mallon's Royalist party wins fourth election with a small majority of 14 seats,
* The Labour party is second with 11 seats
* The Conservative Party has seven seats,
* There are two independents.
* The Liberal democrats have one seat. Voter turnout was 62%. Prime Minister 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 Cathedral 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 completed 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. Prime Minister Mallon announces a referendum for joining the Organisation of British Nations as a member state, the vote will be on October 22nd. Prime Minister 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 Minister Harry Jackman will take the leadership of the Royalist Party. 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 cavalry 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. 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. 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 capital Middlesbrough where he meets Princess Regent Zara (his niece) and her two young sons, he has lunch at the parliament 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 Cathedral of Ripon where he consecrates 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 re-boards the New Britain ship and leaves port at 1pm local time to return to his new home. The expected invasion of North Rheged by the New Scottish State army has not, so far, occurred. Northumbria has withdrawn all its troops from North Rheged and Cleveland has withdrawn its Cavalry 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. 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. 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-spoiled ballots) votes cast - 98,752 Results
* Yes to joining OBN - 69,894
* No to joining OBN - 28,858 After talks with several townships in the former East Riding of Yorkshire it has been decided that the area will hold a referendum about inclusion into the Kingdom of Cleveland. The referendum will be held on the 5th January 2011 with the voting centres in Beverley, Pocklington, Driffield, Bridlington and Withernsea. Currently Cleveland has control over North, West and South Yorkshire so if the vote is 'yes' then it would control all of the Yorkshires. The East Riding of Yorkshire has an area of 2479 km² (957 Sq. Miles). The population of East Yorkshire is estimated at 12,000 people, East Yorkshire was hit by one 100KT nuclear blast over Kingston upon Hull (often shortened to Hull) but the rest of the county escaped relatively unscathed. There were however tactical nuclear blasts across East Yorkshire
* RAF Breighton
* RAF Leconfield Links have already been made with the townships with the building of several wind turbines throughout the area, particularly on the Holderness coast, this provides power in the area for the first time since Doomsday. Plans are underway to link the area with the National Rail network of Cleveland with:
* One line from Harrogate to Tadcaster, Selby, Beverley, Driffield, and Bridlington.
* A circular route from Middlesbrough, Whitby, Scarborough, Malton, and avoiding nuked York onwards to Nothallerton and back to Middlesbrough. Both are hoping to be in service be 2014. Engineers are currently assessing the Humber Bridge to see if it is safe to reopen to traffic. They are also assessing the area for radio transmitters for the expansion of the national radio stations. The replica HMS Bark Endeavour floats out of its berth on the River Tees for the first time, it travelled to Whitby for the final fitting and it is expected to begin its journey to Australia in the spring. The governments of Cleveland and Northumbria jointly announce that the area between the Tyne and the Wear will be turned into the first new National Park. It will be known as the Tyne and Wear National Park and will be approximately 150 sq mi in size. It's borders will run from the coast at Seaton Sluice west along the old A190 to the A19 to Seaton Burn, then west to Ponteland, south the Heddon on the Wall across the Tyne to Stanley, east to Chester le street, Houghton le Spring and eastward to the coast at Seaham. The area within those borders will be left to return to nature, there are currently approximately 150 people living in the new national park, these people will not be asked to leave, however no new people will be allowed to move to the area for the foreseeable future (except for close family members) and no new buildings will be allowed within the park, the exception being replacement to any existing building or to increase productivity of farming of existing residents. The first train (The 'Queen Anne II') from the Kingdom of Cleveland arrives at Glasgow's main rail station at 2.30pm. It carries dignitaries from Cleveland and Northumbria who are expected to meet with leaders of the Celtic Alliance on Sunday. The return journey is expected on Monday 15th at 12pm, and a regular service is due to start in early December. It was announced that due to her ongoing problems associated with her injuries received 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 ascend to the throne as Queen Zara, her coronation date has been set at 15th January 2011. Prime Minsiter 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 variety of products ranging from gas for heating, petrol and diesel for military and agricultural use and materials for Tarmac for roads. Plans are also underway for the building of three new coal fueled power stations, one will be in Durham, one in North Yorkshire and one in South Yorkshire. They are planned to be online and producing power by late 2015. Head of the Cleveland and Northumbrian Wildlife Trust Simon Garside announces that in 2012, 10 European beavers donated from the Nordic Union will be released into the new Tyne and Wear National Park. It is hoped that over the next few years European Elk (Moose) from the Nordic Union, Red Deer and Pine Martins from the Celtic Alliance, and possibly European Lynx from the Nordic Union could be released into the National Park. Contact has also been made with the Commonwealth of East Poland via the League of Nations, it is hoped that it can provide Wisent (European Bison) and Koniks horse from the Białowieża Forest in the east of Poland in the near future. Preparations are underway for the planned abdication of Queen Anne II and the accession of Queen Zara which is planned to occur at midnight, it will be the first time in the history of both Cleveland and the former United Kingdom that the accession of a new monarch has been planned so far in advance and also will be visible to the general public, as both Queens will be present at a royal gala at Wynyard Hall for the New Years celebrations.
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