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Readers respond to an article by Ian Jack on proposals for a rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland and a long-lost railway line
A ferry sailing away from the port of Larne, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP
A ferry sailing away from the port of Larne, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP
Mon 22 Feb 2021 12.33 EST
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Ian Jack (A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty, 19 February) mentioned “a vast munitions dump on the seabed” on the route of the proposed rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland. The dump lies in the Beaufort Dyke, a deep trench in the North Channel. I reported its presence nearly 30 years ago for BBC News. The Ministry of Defence originally told me that it had dumped munitions there since the end of the second world war, that it knew what they were and that they totalled around 100,000 tonnes.