MP's farm twinned with Heathrow village as Robert Goodwill MP joins the airplot

A Yorkshire MP’s farm has been ‘twinned’ with Sipson, the village earmarked for destruction if the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport goes ahead. Early on Sunday 7th March, six Yorkshire Coast Greenpeace volunteers held a ceremony at the Terrington home of Scarborough and Whitby MP, Robert Goodwill. The MP helped to plant an apple tree and ‘twin’ the Goodwill farm with the threatened village of Sipson. Celebrities and politicians have planted an apple orchard on the runway site as a mark of opposition to the plans for a new runway, and Sunday’s planting of an apple tree in Terrington will be a symbol of solidarity with the residents of Sipson. The Cox apple was first bred near Sipson in the 1850s by Richard Cox, who is buried on the site earmarked for a new runway. The planting of the orchard represents the re-introduction of the breed into the area and is designed to act as a potent symbol of the local community’s determination to stop the runway and save their homes and schools. Now Terrington has its own apple tree to show the people of Sipson they have support here in Yorkshire in their fight to save their community and to help save the climate. The apple tree has been planted in Terrington so it can be twinned with the new apple orchard on the runway site. The people in Sipson have fought a brave campaign to save their village from the bulldozers and to save our environment from the climate-wrecking effects of a new runway at Heathrow. We hope their orchard will be bearing fruit in years to come - instead of being under tarmac. We hope this tree in Terrington will grow just as well and show that people here care about the environment. Robert Goodwill MP added: "I am delighted that the Conservative party and Greenpeace are working together so closely in opposing the third runway at Heathrow."