On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Richard J. wrote:

Mwmbwls wrote:

Preliminary Airtrack plans - designed to provide new rail access to
Heathrow from the south and west - were discussed at the meeting of
Spelthorne Council's executive committee on Tuesday. It voted to
strongly oppose overhead electrification on environmental grounds.

That's rich, coming from the council that did a U-turn and voted in
favour of Heathrow expansion. They don't mind destroying someone else's
village and forcing environmental damage on thousands of West London
residents, but they don't want the view of their sodding bit of grass
spoilt.

Aha - 'sodding grass'. Very good.

tom

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