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Residents of a tiny village are regularly invaded by army tanks because of a sat-nav blunder.

Soldiers looking for their barracks are being directed to the picturesque hamlet of the same name 15 miles away.

Tanks and transporters thunder into the area up to seven times a week damaging roads, verges and knocking down trees.

Farmer David Strefford, 60, who has lived in Donnington, near Telford, Shrops, all his life said:

"There are only six houses here. There must be a problem with the satnavs." The Ministry of Defence is investigating.


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all hail donny.

sat-nav have a lot to answer for


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Originally Posted by Cali_16v
all hail donny.

sat-nav have a lot to answer for


who controls the sattelites??? america! trying to get us to friendly fire ourselves as theyve got bored of doing it


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Only for a while... we will all be using Galileo here in Europe soon! No more George Bush sending us to our auntie's when we want to go to our mum's grin

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Thank goodness, its been sending me the wrong way last time i had it on (when we went seacombe ferry on the mini meet)

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you needed sat nav to get to seacombe ferry...

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LOl na i didn't bring it with me but now i know where it is it'l be easy for next time.
Would have thought the army would have memorised the direction to the base rather than use sat nav.

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Originally Posted by Pomp
LOl na i didn't bring it with me but now i know where it is it'l be easy for next time.
Would have thought the army would have memorised the direction to the base rather than use sat nav.

This is the army we're talking about here wink


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