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SWBKCB
And if you look through the local newspaper archives, Burtonwood could have replaced Speke and Ringway, Usworth could have replaced Woolsington and Middleton St George, a central lowlands airport could have replaced Turnhouse and Abbotsinch, etc, etc
And to add to that list Honiley could have replaced Elmdon; and here's a good one, Gaydon could have replaced Heathrow, Elmdon and Baginton - though I'm not sure that the latter ever appeared in a local paper! Seriously however the problem with the UK has always, well at least certainly since the first half of the 20th century, been a failure to make forward thinking decisions and spend the necessary amounts of money to build it for tomorrow rather than for yesterday. I don't believe that since the Victorians built the railways we have had a serious infrastructure planning in UK.