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Workmen start stabilising Queen's Pier

Wed, 11 May 2011

Contractors have begun work to stabilise Queen's Pier in Ramsey.

 

The project will cost the tax payer over £1.7 million.

 

The vote to spend the money just scraped through in Tynwald last month.

 

Some politicians were unhappy about committing the cash-strapped government to the scheme.

 

Workmen from a UK marine engineering company have now started the task of making the structure more secure, so it doesn't pose a danger.

 

The work also aims to stop the pier's condition getting any worse until the government finally gets round to deciding what will be done with it in the long-term.

 

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