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Heathrow airport expansion gets government approval
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25th October 2016
It take many years - perhaps a decade or more - for the Heathrow expansion plan to be completed, but the Government has finally made a decision.
We are curating some of the responses and background articles on this blog page.
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BREAKING NEWS: The UK government backs expansion of Heathrow https://t.co/a0jonNFb4Y via @fastFT pic.twitter.com/uPPzjk9doa
— Financial Times (@FT) October 25, 2016
The Heathrow deal, in numbers... https://t.co/9so8FeyloE
— BBC World Business (@BBCWorldBiz) October 25, 2016
Heathrow has seen off competition from Gatwick to gain UK government approval for airport expansion https://t.co/nn2OUHWZhR pic.twitter.com/Kwo7198Bkm
— Financial Times (@FT) October 25, 2016
BBC News - 24 hours beneath the #Heathrow Airport flight path https://t.co/0OwGEP00lq
— John Moylan (@JohnMoylan01) October 25, 2016
Fact of the day - Theresa May wasn't even a teenager when first inquiry into expanding SE airport capacity began
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 25, 2016
Heathrow airport expansion gets government approval https://t.co/WKluIqkJU3
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 25, 2016
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Devastating news coming in that #Heathrow is approved - but we will continue to fight any airport expansion, no ifs, no buts! #NoNewRunways pic.twitter.com/Wervf5bEmx
— Plane Stupid (@planestupid) October 25, 2016
Heathrow expansion is the wrong decision for London, and the wrong decision for Britain. Read my full statement: https://t.co/o7BkNavdUa 1/6
— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) October 25, 2016
There is no evidence that having an ever larger hub airport enhances overall GDP. https://t.co/6U6J4iOfEm It's just #Heathrow propaganda
— Prime Economics (@primeeconomics) October 25, 2016
BREAKING: Heathrow expansion 'approved'. A huge blow for local people and for climate change.https://t.co/WJUpVlxFeD
— Friends of the Earth (@friends_earth) October 25, 2016
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