Spy base GCHQ wants to build huge new offices and a multi-storey car park at the site of the now famous 'doughnut' to house all of its staff in one place.

Completion of the plans would allow the remaining 800 staff still working at its Oakley site to move across to the newer hi-tech premises at Benhall in Cheltenham.

Initially the 'doughnut' was intended to house all staff because the workforce was shrinking following the thawing of the Cold War.

But the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7 brought an intense workload and GCHQ was forced to continue to use the premises at Oakley.

To accommodate the extra members of staff, intelligence chiefs are proposing to put up a three-storey office building on the doughnut's car park, near the main entrance.

And to replace the car parking spaces which will be lost, a two or three-storey car park could be built on empty ground nearby.

See the full story in tomorrow's Western Daily Press.