The RAF base at Lyneham in Wiltshire is to close by 2012 as part of a strategic review of military airbases which will cost a total of more than 2,000 jobs, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

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The land for the proposed development, between Chippenham and Swindon, was previously underdeveloped because it had provided the flight path and associated landing lights for an RAF Lyneham runway ...