Green vs Greed

Manston's freedom from environmental conscience or obligations... bit.ly/qPABmM

Sleep tight before the night flights bite

If you live within earshot of Manston, a good night's sleep will soon be something you can only dream of.

Make the most of your shut-eye before your Council sells you down the river... bit.ly/rbVl4a

Sleep-shattering noise? Grand. Fine.

It's Liberty Hall at Manston. It will be Living Hell with night flights. bit.ly/r6NZ2R

Infidel over Ramsgate

Fly over Ramsgate all you want. Whatever. The S106 at Manston is basically permission to do pretty much as you like... bit.ly/qk2rur

Manston swept away

Ruritanian-based airport operator Infidel has thrown caution to the wind and is sniffing around Thanet, looking for an airport to buy. Instead of, ahem, doing any proper research to find out if the airport is financially viable... bit.ly/nqbJbu

Whoops Apocalypse - The Sequel?

Iran Air: banned in Europe, but flying at Manston... Really? Why? bit.ly/nUcduE

Glasgow kiss-off

Manston's sister airport at Prestwick gets a bloody nose... bit.ly/pWAstR

Blimey! A politician talking sense! I wish she was my MP.

It's Mary Macleod, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, who is lucky enough to have Heathrow Airport in her constituency. She is concerned about the health effects of night flights, and advocates phasing them out. How sensible! bit.ly/nkJ1zP

(By way of contrast, my MP is Roger Gale.)

Manston Q&A: tourism

Would a busy passenger airport at Manston help local tourism? bit.ly/qRJZxR

Q&A: What is an "indirect job" anyway?

The Manston Master Plan promises hundreds of them, but what (and where) are they? bit.ly/oQyODh

Q&A: employment at airports

Is it true that every 1 million passengers creates 1,000 jobs? It's the number Manston keep trotting out. It's the number the press obediently repeats. It's the number some councillors believe. bit.ly/qMuCLl

Q&A: Surely we can trust Infratil’s numbers?

"In short, no" says one worldly-wise reader, who then explains exactly why - compelling reading... bit.ly/qoMDo9

Q&A

If it’s in the Manston Master Plan, it must be right. Right?  bit.ly/q2ocpr

Consultation news

I'm peeved that the most we've been told about the consultation process has come from a bunch of lawyers based in London, Birmingham and Bristol. When will TDC have the sense and decency to speak to us directly?  bit.ly/mWCPRz

Can a map make you cross?

See the Manston flightpath, and see where the TDC councillors live. Now wail and gnash your teeth... bit.ly/p8OsEl

Straight from the horse's orifice...

In the interests of even-handedness and fair play, I thought I would publish Manston's statement on the importance of night flights, despite it being crap. If you can bring yourself to plough through this litany of self-serving distortions and special pleadings, do please bear a few things in mind... bit.ly/nQAZlW

Needle and threat

Charles Buchanan, CEO of Manston Tumbleweed Airport, has launched the next round of his campaign to make the airport more sellable... bit.ly/nHkWeA

More on the night flights bid

Yet another "independent" report, written by an aviation lobbying group and commissioned by Manston, is coming out. It will probably forecast employment apocolypse for Kent if Manston doesn't get its way... bit.ly/qIpib5

Big Apple pie in the sky

Job losses at Manston: definitely, now. Flights to New York: maybe, sometime. bit.ly/p6Z78n

Night Flights: too hot to handle?

Calling all TDC-ologists: what's going to happen on Thursday? bit.ly/orpulo