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At the end of last year, Manchester Council approved proposals to expand Manchester airport's freight terminal, more proof that despite the rhetoric on climate change, it's still full steam ahead for the government's airport expansion programme across the country.

Yet, this Sunday there was more evidence that resistance to airport expansion is alive and well, and getting stronger by the day.

The proposed freight terminal at Manchester would demolish homes and destroy a large section of the historic Hasty Lane and acres of green belt. So Hasty Lane residents have teamed up with Sipson villagers - who are also threatened with losing their homes under the proposed third runway at Heathrow - and through a live video-link-up they were twinned! Read more »

Alison Steadman, Carol Ann Duffy and Richard Briers muck in on the Airplot

Down on the parcel of land Greenpeace has bought on the site of the proposed third Heathrow runway, a new element is being added to the Airplot. Typically for this time of year, it's a bit chilly and a bit muddy, but that makes it perfect for what we've got planned today, which is planting an apple orchard.

With the help of people like actress Alison Steadman, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and former Heathrow writer-in-residence Alain de Botton, we're planting yet more roots into the land we own on behalf of tens of thousands of people around the world, a right spanner in the works for advocates of bigger airports at Heathrow and elsewhere. Read more »

A lovely short photo essay, examining life in Sipson, the village directly threatened by Heathrow's proposed third runway, and home to the Airplot. Read more »

What do we say to bigger airports? © Vanessa Miles/Greenpeace

I decided to give Glastonbury a miss this year, but it looks like everyone currently stuck in a seven-hour tailback in the car park had a rollickin' good time. Not just because of the sunshine or Blur's barnstorming set last night (slightly jealous I missed that), but the Greenpeace field was once again a marvel to behold.

"Everyone gets gold!"

That was the verdict given by Tom Hoblyn, top Chelsea garden designer, to the four guerrilla gardens created yesterday in the villages under threat from a third runway at Heathrow.

Colin Matthews, BAA Chief Executive, has a dream. It is a dream of "modernisation" - a dream of "responsible development" - a dream of a third runway being built at Heathrow. Unluckily for Colin, given the broad coalition of opposition to the third runway, it's likely to remain just a dream, rather than becoming a full-blown environmental nightmare.