Today was the last operational day of Ashwell Prison in Rutland. In effect the prison has been closed for a a while now with prison warders guarding a empty prison but today marks it's official closure after 43 of service as a category C establishment.
Although a prison is not what anyone really wants on it's door step it has for years provided employment in the area. These jobs and the money they have injected into the local economy has now effectively been lost and will over the coming years, together with the closure of RAF Cottesmore, be sadly missed by local traders. In that respect it is a sad day for Rutland made worse by the final march of the through the town of the RAF and Naval personal based at the RAF base on the same day.
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