{"id":69574,"date":"2016-04-13T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3cd3eee61a3b7802238138af393646da"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:22:17","slug":"news-story-lydd-airport-made-permanent-home-of-search-and-rescue-helicopters-in-the-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69574","title":{"rendered":"News story: Lydd Airport made permanent home of search and rescue helicopters in the south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Department for Transport has today (13 April 2016) announced that Lydd Airport will be the permanent base for the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> Coastguard\u2019s search and rescue helicopter services in the south-east.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> Search and Rescue Helicopter Service has operated out of Lydd Airport on a temporary basis since August 2015. The decision to make this arrangement permanent will enable the operators, Bristow Helicopters <abbr title=\"Limited\">Ltd<\/abbr>, to push ahead with plans to build a new \u00a37 million search and rescue helicopter hangar at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The new hangar will house 2 state-of-the-art search and rescue helicopters that will operate a lifesaving service around the clock. <\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Robert Goodwill said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> Coastguard\u2019s Search and Rescue Team in Lydd already play a vital role in emergency lifesaving operations in the south-east and the decision to make this the permanent base for the service will be much welcomed by the crew and the operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This will give the crew real certainty about their future with the service, allowing them to put down roots in the local community, and will allow Bristow Helicopters <abbr title=\"Limited\">Ltd<\/abbr> to push ahead with their plans to build a new, state-of-the-art facility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency and its contractor Bristow Helicopters will be working closely with the airport owners and the local community at Lydd over the coming months as the development of this new facility starts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1015\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Aviation and maritime media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3118\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lydd Airport to be the permanent home of search and rescue helicopters in the south-east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}