a positive outcome from top level Government talks.

Members of Bermuda Motorcycle Racing Club have been told they have until the middle of November to vacate their current venue at the Southside Raceway in St. David's.

Bermuda Land Development Company informed club chiefs earlier this month, saying the land was going to be levelled in readiness for development.

The club was offered an alternative site opposite Clearwater Beach.

But they say it is unsafe for such racing, they would not be able to discriminate between spectators and beachgoers and it would necessitate thousands of dollars' worth of work to bring it up to standard.

The club has now revealed it is to hold talks with Sports Minister Dennis Lister this morning.

The talks come just hours before the club is to hold its monthly meeting with the main topic of conversation being the proposed enforced relocation.

Club vice-president Grant Goudge, who said he had been inundated with calls from concerned members, said: "It is our normal monthly meeting. But because of the developments of the last week or so we are going to try and calm people's nerves a little bit and make them realise that it's not the end of the club and it's not doom and gloom which we thought it might have been last week.'' Goudge said if they could not get a purpose built venue of their own, the club's preferred site was Number One Gate at Kindley Field.

"The bit that we are proposing would encompass an existing road and run around the baseball diamond and back -- the track would be over a mile,'' he said.

Goudge said he was hopeful the proposal, expected to be discussed with Lister today, would be given proper consideration by Government.

"I don't want to jump the gun and say it's definitely going to happen, but the signs are more encouraging than they were last week. The way they were talking was `this is what you have got, get on with it'.''