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* * * News for 16th December 2003 * * *


All of Medway: 16th December 2003

aeroplaneCliffe Airport will not go ahead!

The long-awaited announcement has today been made on the future of aviation in the south-east of England, through the publication of the government's White Paper.

A new airport at Cliffe is not one of the remaining options, and any kind of estuary option has also been ruled out.

This is the result for which nearly everyone in Medway was hoping: only a very small minority actually wanted an airport to be built here, and they cannot have appreciated the impact that such a monstrosity would have had on everyone's life. Needless to say, many champagne corks were popping on the peninsula soon after the news reached us all via radio and TV.