Secret Bases - Alan Turnbull’s 'Secret Bases 'Website which has regularly rattled the Governments cage and successfully pushed back the barriers of official secrecy over the last few year’s was suddenly and without warning taken off the internet by Virgin Media earlier this week.

NTL had been perfectly happy to host Alan Turnbull’s high profile site even after the furore that sur-rounded ‘Secret Bases’ in 2003. The problem has only occurred since NTL was merged with Virgin to form the new Media organization.

Apparently no other website hosted by the now ailing Virgin Media have been similarly affected and Virgin have so far refused to discuss this matter directly with Alan Turnbull who has been fobbed off with a suc-cession of what appear to be Indian-based call-centres.

Alan Turnbull believes that he has finally been, to use his own words, ‘nobbled’. His site carries many photographs and maps clearly revealing the fallacy of trying to hide such facilities.

The suspicion must be that one of those organizations so obviously unhappy over his regularly delving into previously closed areas and exposing the bogus security reasons for hiding important facilities have finally begun to pull strings.

It will be interesting to see what reasons Virgin Media provide for taking down Alan Turnbull’s site and whether they will find it possible to answer the growing suspicion that they have quietly caved in to pres-sure from one of Alan Turnbull’s numerous official critics to finally shut down ‘Secret Bases’.

A mirror of Secret Bases in 2004: