"Obviously having to cope with the cancellation (of the building programme) and the announcement of the school closure was very difficult," said David Prescott, its chairman of governors.
Ever since the cancellation of the Apollo programme in 1970, astronauts have been stuck in low Earth orbit.There are plenty of others besides Mr Bezos who are keen to investigate and preserve that vanished future.
And the party's 1983 manifesto was certainly incoherent and over-ambitious, though its central programme of public investment, energy conservation, the nationalisation of irresponsible banks, tighter lending controls, corporate regulation, job creation and training and the cancellation of the Trident programme sounds hard to fault in the context of 2010.
Prior to the cancellation of the Black Arrow programme, the satellite was to be named after Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The cancellation of the Buran programme, however, meant these capabilities were not realised until the 1990s when the ports were used instead by U.S. Space Shuttles as part of the Shuttle-Mir programme (after testing by the specially modified Soyuz TM-16 in 1993).
Last year, the US senate armed services committee came within one vote of calling for the cancellation of the entire F35 programme.
WHEN America's space agency, NASA, announced its spending plans in February, some people worried that its cancellation of the Constellation moon programme had ended any hopes of Americans returning to the Earth's rocky satellite.
Michael Gove's perky reaction to the news that a judge had ruled his cancellation of the school building programme an "abuse of power" was the subject of an interesting blog from a teacher called Pencilandpapertest: "Sounding like a football manager who looks for the positives after a defeat to nil a long way from home, he says: "I am delighted that the judge has ruled in my favour".
The cancellation of the Future Jobs Fund programme (which supported job creation for disadvantaged young people) earlier this year has already limited the number of young people the YMCA can help.
