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| Activists end protest at airport | |
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| A group of environmental activists who blocked an entrance to a departure lounge at Manchester International Airport have ended their protest. | |
| The group took action inside a public area in Terminal Three and a screen has been set up in front of them. | The group took action inside a public area in Terminal Three and a screen has been set up in front of them. |
| An emergency exit next to the campaigners was being used to transfer passengers into the departure lounge. | An emergency exit next to the campaigners was being used to transfer passengers into the departure lounge. |
| No queues have been created by the incident. The protesters walked out of the airport at 1000 BST. | |
| Greater Manchester Police took no action against the group, thought to number about seven. | |
| One of them, Vanessa Hall is a Green Party member ofManchester City Council and said she was "disgusted" with the authority's actions in relation to the airport. | |
| 'End flights' | |
| "Manchester City Council, that owns this airport along with the other local councils, should be ashamed," she said. | |
| "We have this whole Manchester Green City, aspiring to be a green city, but it is nonsense when you're expanding an airport." | |
| Ms Hall called for an end to internal flights within the UK. | |
| "Climate change already kills 160,000 people every year. That is only going to get worse unless we do something about it." | |
| Ms Hall apologised for the disruption caused but claimed they had no choice but to act. | |
| "It is really, really important that we take action on climate change. We cannot leave it up to the Government." |