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US Base Withdrawal: How Will Communities be Affected?

The American military is set to save more than £300 million by leaving RAF Alconbury, Molesworth and Mildenhall. 
 
The impact the move will have on local communities near those bases, where many US air force personnel and their families have made their homes, remains to be seen however. 
 
Tim Cooper reports from Mildenhall in Suffolk.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cover photo courtesy of Keith Evans via Wikimedia Commons.
 

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