Date published: 2006/09/24
The BBC says:
Police have arrested 24 protesters who broke through a security gate at Nottingham East Midlands Airport.
Members of an environmental campaign group used cutters to gain access through a fence. The airport said six outbound flights were delayed.
The group, which called itself Plane Stupid, had claimed the number of short-haul flights from the airport was affecting climate change.
Managers at the airport condemned the protest as "irresponsible".
The protest lasted for about four hours. The campaigners sat on a taxiway between two cargo holds. Baptist Minister Rev Malcolm Carroll led a ceremony in memory of those "who have died as a result of climate change."
The shape of things to come. (But the TR7 was not.) Perhaps the Reverend Carroll should lead a ceremony in memory of those who have died as a result of religion. And perhaps they should chain themselves to trains in London to decry all the crazy waste of energy which is caused by the thousands of people who commute more than (say) a hundred miles round trip every day, to and from London.
_________________________________________________________
All material not included from other sources is copyright cambridge2000.com.
For further information or questions email: info [at] cambridge2000 [dot] com
(replace "[at]" with "@" and "[dot]" with ".").