WE FULLY endorse the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s view of why it has to formally object to the barmy plan to build an airport near Abingdon.

“It was tempting to ignore these suggestions as just ridiculous nonsense,” a spokesman for the group said. “But stranger things have been known to come to pass.”

Indeed. It’s easy to dismiss the plan but it is only by groups standing up against it that we won’t wake up to a Boeing 747 coming in to land.