Foulness Island passing of the Ministry of Defence Act 1946 and the subsequent rationalisation of five agencies in 1971, ownership of the island passed from the War Office to the Ministry of Defence. In 2003, a contract to manage the testing of munitions was awarded to the defence contractors QinetiQ, and they also control access to the island. In the 1850s, the South Essex Estuary and Reclamation Company proposed a grand scheme to reclaim around of land on the Essex coast, which would have included most of Foulness Sands and Maplin Sands. The civil engineer Sir John Rennie produced the plans, and
Lies of the Heart Lies of the Heart Doli Armaano Ki, (International title: "Lies of the Heart"), was an Indian television drama series. which premiered on 2 December 2013, and ran until 25 September 2015. It aired on Zee TV Monday through Friday. The series has been revoiced in English, and will air on Zee World on DSTv channel 166, and revoiced in Tamil as "Kalyana Kanavugal" () and will air on Polimer TV. It is the story of Urmi, a young girl who gets married to Samrat, an arrogant, male chauvinist and abusive husband. As the story progresses Urmi and Samrat have a