'Sleep In' Protest Over Night Flights

10.39.15am GMT Tue 2nd Mar 2004

Photo shows Susan Kramer, Lib Dem Prospective Candidate for Richmond Park, with Sarah Ludford MEP with fellow Lib Dem campaigners outside the Thistle Hotel in Visctoria

On Friday 27th February, Susan Kramer, Lib Dem Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Richmond Park, and European MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford took part in a 'sleep in' protest over night flights. The protest took place outside the Thistle Hotel in Victoria where the Department of Transport were holding a 'consultation' exercise about night flights at which no residents directly effected by their plans had been invited to speak.

Susan Kramer PPC said: "It is ironic that airlines are putting beds on their planes to allow long haul passengers to get a good nights sleep, whilst simultaneously showing a total disregard for the rights of people living under the flight path to have the same privilege. Sleeping is a basic human right. It is about time that the Government and the Aviation industry wake up to this fact and take some notice of people living in West London under the flight path."