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A pressure group is urging Bishop’s Stortford residents to raise their voices against aircraft noise at Stansted Airport. SAW – Stansted Airport Watch – says “the most important public consultation for a generation” is underway. At stake, it claims, is the prospect of the Government removing all of its current statutory restrictions on night flights at Stansted, which have been in force for over 40 years. The campaigners accuse Manchester Airports Group (MAG) of pressing hard for the 13,700 limit to be scrapped, despite a 2003 planning agreement with Uttlesford District Council to not seek any…