Boom time at Grève

Friday 25th November 2011, 2:58PM GMT.

The explosion at Grève de Lecq this morning

FOR residents of Grève de Lecq it was a morning that saw a Hollywood-style explosion engulf parts of the bay.

Just after 9 am this morning a muffled bang was heard and a brown dust cloud were seen as more than 800 tonnes of rock were blasted away from the cliff face above the beach’s pier.

The two-month project to remove the dangerous section of cliff came to an explosive conclusion when experts from Ronez blew up part of the headland.

Overhanging rock was putting boats parked near the pier at risk with parts of the cliff face falling, or ‘rabbling’ down.

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small business

November 25, 2011 at 3:21 pm

Send the Ronez experts to do the same to the building in the Royal Square (not the Broadlands one) when they have finished here!!

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- Com-Mentator
  
  November 25, 2011 at 4:30 pm
  
  and:
  
  Portelet
  Castle Quay
  Radisson
  Incinerator
  La Coupe eyesore aka Ransoms folly
  Le Hocq hill monstrosity
  Cineworld
  
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  - Medium Business
    
    November 26, 2011 at 12:18 pm
    
    Here here
    
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nigel

November 26, 2011 at 8:07 am

I would like to add the unsightly bunker at
the bottom of the cliff at La Greve de Lecq to Com-Mentator’s list.

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Chris

November 26, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Could all the granite go on the break water,which needs to be raised with a bit of concrete.

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- Shane
  
  November 26, 2011 at 9:19 pm
  
  That would be too simple.Better to get it from Norway or China instead.Why use stuff that’s free and on the doorstep, when you can spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of someone elses money!
  
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R B Bougourd

November 27, 2011 at 5:47 pm

Won’t this just expose a new rock face which will start falling down, in time?

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