Category: Airport Threat

The Department of Transport stage an exhibition in the village, as detailed below The level of organisation from the DoT was highlighted by the fact the information documents ran out at a key time. Read more

With the 2002 Airport Proposal gathering such a wide audience, and generating so much public interest, there were some excellent review articles written in various press outlets. Some of there are referenced as part of various articles in this archive, along with links to the full article, given copyright limitations, where the article still be… Read more

Although in 2002/03 the concept of personal websites was still rather in its infancy, many villages joined the published press in putting their messages online. A collage of some of the various pages is shown below (it was not possible to get samples of them all, as some were not held in the Internet Archive). Read more

Shown below are a selection of Newspaper Headlines from 2002. More details from the various local newspapers during 2002 and 2003 are in the Research section of the archive, including the various letters from villagers published at the time. Read more