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Heathrow - Truth??

Interesting article on the front page of this website about Heathrow.  We on the SW-ern side of London, and indeed all of London, need to keep and firm eye on this and publicise as much as possible what is going on.Big up to our Editor, Sandi for highlighting these issues and also Justine Greening for her continual support and battle against these measures.I have no interest in people who say things like "you knew what it was like before you moved here" because things are changing from the status quo of many years and are planned to changed hugely.  This is not in the name of "progress", or "modernisation"  or even employment, this is big business making lots of bucks and expecting us to pay the price.Stand up Putneyites!!  We will not be defeated!!

Bunny Payne ● 2809d2 Comments

I came to Putney in 1981 and barely noticed the planes. If I had known how it would develop, I would have made a life somewhere else. So it angers me beyond measure when people try that "you knew what you were in for" refrain.Nice hatchet job on Grayling in the New York Times.  I found it by searching "Chris Grayling in New York Times." Irritatingly it doesn't include his being duped by/giving in to Heathrow in the lengthy catalogue of his blunders. He and his boss should be asking the questions listed in the website article. And they (or their "advisers") should know what hell the noise is because when I email a complaint to Heathrow, I copy in May and Grayling! Auto acknowledgment from May's email, nothing from Grayling.I'm wondering whether to go to the Court next week. But I might just go off pop, I'm so angry about this.As you say, thanks to Justine.

Elizabeth Balsom ● 2809d

It's an excellent piece, describing Grayling as "becoming a byword for haplessness in a golden age of political blundering in Britain."You can read the whole article here (it's free for a certain number of issues a month but you have to register with he site): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/world/europe/grayling-ferries-uk.html?linked=facebook

Richard Carter ● 2809d