WINCHESTER Action on Climate Change (Winacc) is supporting the campaign against a third runway at Heathrow.

The group, set up in 2007 to reduce the city’s carbon footprint, is writing to Gordon Brown to urge him to block the scheme.

The Winacc letter, written by chairman, Robert Hutchison, has also been copied to the Department of Transport and Department of Energy and Climate Change. Mr Hutchison said: “The Prime Minister doesn’t seem to understand the seriousness and urgency of the climate change challenge. We have no right to steal the future from our children and grandchildren, but that will be the inevitable consequence of the increase in global warming.”