Campaigners against Bristol Airport’s expansion greeted passengers arriving for evening flights on the longest day of the year with a mass protest at the entrance to the airport. The coalition of groups opposed to the expansion - the Bristol Airport Action Network - lost a lengthy legal battle to stop it in the courts last month, clearing the way for the airport to expand its operations and buildings to increase capacity from 10 million passengers a year at the moment, to 12 million a year.
The Bristol Airport Action Network held up banners and posters telling the airport ‘we are watching you’ - as they pledged to monitor the expansion and the results of it, to make sure the airport doesn’t breach all the conditions imposed by the planning authorities.
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