PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE With Thomson Airways re-launching their attempts to get regular biofuels flights from Birmingham Airport, green campaigners are raising concerns that new “Susta...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More State Aid for Under-taxed Aviation Industry  Birmingham Friends of the Earth reacted with dismay today to the announcement that state aid is being provi...

I was amazed to find Jerry Blackett calling for airport taxes to be cut in the Birmingham Post on March 14. How unfortunate it is that at a time when people are losing their jobs and facing tax rises ...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Birmingham Friends of the Earth call for fairness and transparency in public funding  Birmingham Friends of the Earth welcome the fact that the Birmingham LE...

Re: Birmingham Airport runway extension and funding relocation of A45 Dear Councillor,In this time of financial cost-cutting measures when front-line staff face losing their jobs, we understand that ...

An explanation for the benefit of a confused Airport CEO

In the Media - The Runway Saga – New Twists and Turns.   After the application for Birmingham International Airport’s (BIA) runway extension was approved, Advantage West Midlands was supposed...

On Saturday volunteers from Birmingham Friends of the Earth along with members of university and other social justice groups rode down the A45 from the council house in Victoria Square to Birmingham...

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECLEAR SKY THINKING NEEDEDOn Monday the cabinet meeting at Birmingham City Council will meet to discuss whether to plough £16 million of tax-payers' money into moving...

  TIME TO SCRAP RUNWAY PLANS   Following a high court judge's ruling against the decision to approve Heathrow's 3rd runway local environmental campaigners said the same should apply to plans for ...

This is the material from the flyagra website, some of which is now slightly out of date, but nevertheless provides coherent reasons that stand up to scrutiny:The case against the airport company's ex...

This was the postcard used for the campaign - we got over 1000 of them signed, but this still wasn't enough to persuade the planning committee to turn down the application to extend the runway at ...

In January Birmingham Friends of the Earth joined forces with Birmingham Airport anti-Noise Group (BANG) to launch a new campaign with the aim of persuading local planning authority Solihull Metrop...

'This House believes that the extension of the runway at Birmingham Airport will make a positive contribution to society'.John Palmer Hall, 741 Warwick Road, Solihull, B91 3DG (opposite Beatti...

Activists dole out free 'Flyagra' pills to Solihull shoppers