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New 'runways' that we can all welcome
Liverpool Echo
|March 22, 2025
NOTHING ruffles feathers more than the thought of new runways being carved into the landscape.
The dread of jet engines roaring over suburbia irks communities, splits political alliances and leaves global warming protagonists boiling mad.
But 80 miles north east of Heathrow Airport as the common crane flies, a series of landing strips cut into a beautiful fenland wilderness are nurturing one of the conservation success stories of the age.
This story is from the March 22, 2025 edition of Liverpool Echo.
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