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Do you still believe in Manston Airport?

Call 08459 811111, email julia@bbc.co.uk or text 81333 (start your message with KENT).

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The main passenger airline operating out of Manston is flybe. They are pulling out in March, meaning that the only regular passenger flights left will be once a week to Jersey.

For a few months over the summer, the airport will revert to mainly freight and will remain open for emergency landings because it has such a long runway.

In another blow for Manston's hopes for expansion, an independent report commissioned by Thanet District Council says the airports plans for night flights say there would be noise disruption for people who live nearby and it wouldn't necessarily generate more business.

Do you believe Manston has a future? Would a bigger, more robust Manston be good for Thanet and Kent?

Do you live on the flight path? How would it affect your life?

Also on the programme, Professor David Nutt will give a talk in Canterbury today outlining his belief that the UK's drugs policy is wrong and that cannabis should not just be downgraded, but decriminalised.

He was forced to resign from his role as advisor to the Labour Government in 2009 after he claimed that alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than LSD, ecstasy and cannabis.

He chats to Julia George just after 10am.

And have you ever told a little white lie? New research suggests that dishonesty is on the increase amongst the British public.

Julia catches up with Professor Paul Whiteley, Director of the Essex Centre of the Study of Integrity at the University of Essex, who explains how society is becoming more tolerant of our misdemeanours.

3 hours

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  • Wed 25 Jan 2012 09:00