I DO trust that the people writing fervent letters about saving the Piano Building are also writing them about the enormous threat to people living in Wyre Forest and far beyond.

I mean, of course, the proposed extension of Halfpenny Green Airport.

If this goes ahead, up to 240 planes a day and eight million passengers a year will invade the area.

New roads will have to be built - the Western Orbital is already rearing its head again - along with enormous car parks, situated miles from the airport and perhaps worst of all, "holding areas" where endless queues of planes will circle, waiting to land.

I was astounded to learn that so far Cookley is the only place to organise an action group when people as far away as Chaddesley Corbett and Bridgnorth will be affected.

As well as destruction of the environment and loss of life-quality, the value of property will go down by at least one quarter and jobs and businesses will suffer.

This area has been a green lung for the Black Country for over 150 years, but who is going to come camping, caravanning, riding or fishing with planes roaring overhead all day?

If readers feel this issue is important, I urge them to try to form an action group, or at least write letters - to their MP, the European MP, Transport Secretary Alastair Darling and even his deputy, John Speller.

This is urgent - letters should be in by the end of June.

Remember a decent slogan: "A fair county, worth fighting for".

BARBARA JENNINGS

Caunsall