{"id":298506,"date":"2025-12-04T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298506\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:16:08","slug":"campaign-to-rename-birmingham-airport-after-ozzy-osbourne-sees-growing-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298506\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign to rename Birmingham Airport after Ozzy Osbourne sees growing support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on BBC WM, Kelly Osbourne said it was fitting for the airport to be named after her father, because &#8220;this city made him and he made this city&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supporters of the idea have pointed to airports in other cities around the world, named after famous figures, such as John Lennon airport in Liverpool, JFK and LaGuardia in New York and Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hudson said his campaign was going &#8220;pretty well&#8221; and he had received a &#8220;really good response&#8221; when he raised the issue at a recent Birmingham City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he also had the backing of most of Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham Airport most recent statement on the issue said: &#8220;We are currently progressing an exciting homage to Ozzy Osbourne, creating a greater sense of place for Birmingham and his fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know he was an inspiration to so many in our region proving talent, hard work and commitment can take you to all corners of the world and we are committed to honouring his legacy within our terminal space.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on BBC WM, Kelly Osbourne said it was fitting for the airport to be named after her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}