T5 marks one year anniversary as campaigners vow 'no more expansion'

TODAY marks exactly one year since the disastrous opening of Terminal 5 which was hailed as state-of-the-art but instead spent many months derided as simply 'a state.'Read

Jack Clark

Sipson mourns loss of Jack Clark

SIPSON'S oldest resident who proudly supported the anti-Heathrow expansion campaign and became one of its most endearing figureheads has died.Read

Vigil to mark latest efforts to save Cherry Lane

A CANDLELIT vigil is to take place outside the Houses of Parliament on the day a 35,000 signature petition against the destruction of Cherry Lane Cemetery is handed to the Government.Read

Government loses vote on new runways

PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to review plans for airport expansion after it lost a vote in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday).Read

Third runway protest goes to Downing Street

DEMONSTRATORS decided to teach the Prime Minister a lesson last night (Thursday) by making a noise outside his house as punishment for the disturbance they suffer on a daily basis.Read

Narrow victory for Government over airport plans

PROTESTERS are looking at the positives after the Government narrowly avoided defeat following a Parliamentary debate on the need to expand Heathrow Airport.Read

Call for MPs to rebel against third runway plans

RED balloons symbolising the 57 Labour MPs who have expressed concern about expansion at Heathrow will be waved to mark the start of a Commons debate.Read

People's Question Time

Arguments fail to convince Hillingdon on expansion

SUPPORTERS of the Government's plan to expand Heathrow Airport were very much in the minority as a lively debate took place in Hayes last night (Wednesday).Read

Heathrow decision: The Timeline

THE Government's announcement of its support for a third runway at Heathrow becomes the latest milestone in an expansion timeline which stretches back many years.Read

Cemetery back in the firing line

FEARS the decision by the Government to back expansion at Heathrow will reactivate the plan to develop a dual carriage way through Cherry Lane Cemetery have been revealed in a statement by the group fighting to protect its future.Read

Decision was 'balanced' says BA

ONE of the principle winners in the wake of the Government's approval for Heathrow Expansion is the aviation industry and British Airways has been quick to record its approval.Read

Campaigners vow never to give up

IN THE fight against expansion at Heathrow Airport the two campaign groups most familiar to Hillingdon residents are NoTRAG (No Third Runway Action Group) and HACAN.Read

Historian's horror at village destruction

BULLDOZING more than 1,000 years of history in Sipson would be a crime so abhorrent the very thought of it turns the stomach of one historian.Read

Jack Clark

'People are more important than planes'

HE'S watched as the fields he used to farm turned into the world's busiest airport but never imagined it would cost him his home.Read

Sipson Torn

Third runway given the go-ahead by Government

D-DAY has arrived for the residents living near Heathrow as the Government has officially announced its support for a third runway at the airport.Read

Call for Heathrow vote ignored by PM

AN ATTEMPT to challenge for the right of MPs to vote on the issue of Heathrow expansion has been brushed aside by Gordon Brown.Read

Heathrow decision may be delayed again

ONE of the politicians leading the fight against expansion at Heathrow Airport feels the decision on the plan could now be delayed by up to a fortnight.Read

'How could they destroy this?’

SIPSON is a village in the north-east of the parish of Harmondsworth that in the past 60 years has three times been threatened with destruction to allow for the expansion of Heathrow Airport.Read

'Time for gentle persuasion is over'

POLITICIANS and airline bosses were left gobsmacked last week when residents disrupted a minister’s speech in protest at a proposed new runway at Heathrow Airport.Read

They'd rather eat than vote!

MEMBERS of the GLA have been criticised after refusing to pass an agreement opposing a third runway at Heathrow as it was lunchtime and they were hungry.Read

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