ABSTRACT
Sealink boss James Sherwood was an active supporter of Flexilink, the body set up to oppose the construction of a fixed cross-Channel link of any sort. But hints that Sherwood might also become involved in the competition for the mandate to build the link began to surface in September 1985. Little notice was taken of the news at the time, and no detail emerged until the day that all the schemes were submitted to the two governments.
