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Exeter Labour Party
26b Clifton Hill
Exeter  EX1 2DJ

Tel: 01392 275004

Email: exeter.labour
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Ben Bradshaw

The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many not the few, where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe, and where we live together freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.

Jan 2007

Exeter Airport: Lib Dems Let Down City Residents

airportExeter Airport has now been sold by Devon County Council to the owners of London City Airport. This operates a restriction on night time flights, unlike Exeter Airport

Labour County Councillors, recognising local concerns about the effects of extra noise and pollution on residents, organised a task group of councillors whose work resulted in a number of recommendations about the airport and the county council’s commitment to environmental matters.

Sadly, the sale has gone through WITHOUT any restriction on night flights. As for Devon County Council, whose Liberal Democrat administration wishes to make this “England’s Greenest County”, its commitment to the well-being of its residents living under the flight path must be in some doubt.   The task group’s ideas were not even discussed properly at the council’s Scrutiny Committee, as their report was rubbished by a senior Liberal Democrat Executive Councillor from North Devon.