FANCIFUL plans for the world’s biggest indoor snow resort - slap, bang wallop in the middle of Dartmoor – have been exposed as a mischievous hoax.

The name of the perpetrators of the tall story was something of a give-away…Civil Unrest.

The group specialises in harmless hokum of the fictional variety with tales of giant oil rigs off super-rich Sandbanks in Dorset and a theme park for Stonehenge.

One of their latest excursions into the unlikely was breaking news about Ski Dartmoor’s ridiculously ambitious proposals for the snow resort in the heart of the national park.

The pranksters would have you believe that the resort would be contained within a 42,000 sq ft structure soaring 130 metres towards the heavens.

The dimensions were deemed sufficient to accommodate the showpiece ‘mountain arena’ featuring seven slopes to test the differing skills of skiers.

There would even be an 800 metre-long run and two black diamond runs for reckless daredevils.

A spokesman for the Dartmoor National Park Authority at Bovey Tracey confirmed, for the record, that an application for such a scheme had not seen the light of day at Parke.

He was happy to dismiss the tale as a total fabrication.

The bogus Ski Dartmoor spokesman, who outlined the absurd enterprise, felt the venture would be a ‘win win’ for Dartmoor and its ski-starved inhabitants and visitors.