Deep hole in the ground...

[Roger W]

I don't know if any of those Mendip diggers have been on holiday to Russia, but:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/end-world-crater-mystery-siberia-201900198.html#3sno40T

The article talks about the possibility of "an explosion of gas that had built up in a naturally occurring chamber under the surface," so with all this talk of huge deposits of shale gas under the Mendips, who knows what could happen down there... 

 

[tony from suffolk]

I've noticed the Reservoir Hole digging team have been very quiet of late.

 

[ianball11]

Oh no! The concern of exploding natural gas pockets would seem a nice way to get permission to dig up the Mendips to 'free' the gas to use the energy rather than see it go up in uncontrolled combustion.