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PLANE F**KING CRAZY

Rather than listening to the opposition of Shoreham/Lancing residents, Brighton and Worthing Councils are steamrolling through plans to expand Shoreham airport… Ah yes, of course, Shoreham International has such a great ring to it.

Property company Erinaceous Group PLC has won the contract (beginning next April) to open up flights to Edinburgh, Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin as well as build a visitor centre, park-and-ride, aviation academy, business park, leisure services and mixed commercial activities, whatever that means.

Rough Music has no problems with the idea of jobs for locals but what we hate is greenwash. Check out this choice piece from Brighton councillor Don ‘Nice Little Earner’ Turner: “A viable, working airport offers the best protection of the strategic green gap between Shoreham and Lancing.”

So tosser Turner, you’re gonna protect threatened wildlife - curlews, waters voles, badgers - of ancient marshlands areas around Old Marsh Farm, Lancing Brooks, and the Widewater Lagoon Nature Reserve by… expanding the airport! All the wildlife can jet off to safer climes courtesy of Easyjet. Mmmmm, that makes sense then.

Jean Kitchener helps run Communities Against Runway Expansion (CARE) a residents’ group set up two years ago to fight the plans. “Why have the wishes of 79% of the population of Adur been ignored and the proposals to market the airport for commercial flights gone ahead?”

CARE have put up signs along the A259 calling for ‘NO Jets At Shoreham’ and a campaign video has been produced; a ten minute look at the destruction the expanded airport will wreak - showing at the Cowley Club some time in October, or watch it online at www.adurcare.wanadoo.co.uk. CARE campaigners have also set up their own pollution monitoring stations.

With the flight path going over two schools and bearing in mind nitrogen oxide is a leading cause of children’s asthma, their future looks none too rosy. Car pollution is expected to rise four fold and with 800,000 people expected to use the airport by 2018 (5-10 times more than current use) we need to stop this expansion dead in its tracks. Air pollution is the fastest growing contributor to global warming. And don’t forget it’s the richest 10% who take the vast majority of flights in this country, either business trips or weekend breaks to holiday homes (in less spoiled places than Britain presumably).

For more info from CARE call 01903 535334.

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