We have now launched a separate website for the Conservation Trust which we hope you will agree is packed with information and lovely photographs of the Goodwin Sands

Check it out here: http://www.goodwinsands.org.uk

As the nation prepares to virtually commemorate 75 years since VE Day, we will be launching a social media broadcast to raise awareness of the threat to WWII war graves in the Goodwin Sands.

Over 100 airmen from Britain, Poland, America and Germany perished in the area around the Goodwins, with less than a handful being recovered and given a proper burial.

Goodwin Sands are a collective war grave; not a source of landfill.

We will continue our fight to get this sensitive area officially acknowledged and property protected.

Last month we asked the prospective MPs for Dover & Deal for their views on the adequacy of the process that led to Dover Harbour Board being granted their dredging licence.

We highlighted our main concerns which include the Marine Management Organisation making their decision to grant the licence before either the Environmental Management Plan or the Archaeological Management Plan were agreed.

Published below are the responses we have received from Charlotte Cornell and Natalie Elphicke. Simon Dodd, Beccy Sawbridge and Nathan Sutton have also sent messages of support.

Main image: “The British Parliament and Big Ben” (CC BY 2.0) by ** Maurice **

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