CAMPAIGNERS are angered by an airport's decision to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the announcement of a £15million investment programme.

Wanstead falls under the flight path of London City Airport near Canary Wharf and residents feel they have suffered enough.

On November 5 1987 the airport opened and opponents claim it was only allowed to do so on the basis that 120 flights left the airport a day.

But now it's home to 10 airlines, serving 43 destinations, with around 70,000 flights a year and plans to refurbish the Western Pier, with new departure gates and improved lounge facilities, redevelop the International Arrivals Hall and enhance baggage handling zones.

Fight the Flights campaign group took Newham Council to the High Court last year over the council's decision to increase the flight capacity to 120,000.

Member of the group which has now merged with Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise East, Trevor Gordon, 52, lives in Mansfield Road under the flight path.

He said: "I still think the airport is in the wrong place. I would love to see the back of it.

"The noise is more prevalent in the evening because the airport has a heavier schedule, they fly over every seven minutes."

Campaigner Ann Williams of the Wanstead branch of Friends of the Earth lives in Gordon Road, also under the flight path.

She said: "Ever since they extended the runways it has been getting worse and worse.

"It is the increasing creep of the extra flights and the extra capacity which is really very irritating."

John Stewart, Chair of HACAN East, said, "The airport has fooled and failed local people. It is just not believable that the airport had any intention of keeping the promises made 25 years ago.

"It has been a quarter of a century of expansion based on deception"

Work on the airport will begin early next year.