Transport secretary faces growing calls to look to the regions to ease crowding at Heathrow, rather than build a hub in the Thames estuary

An investigation into the immigration controls security affair last year is holding up a scheme to allow fast-track entry in time for the Olympics

A group of more than 30 Conservative MPs calls on the government to rethink its decision to rule out a third runway at Heathrow airport.

As I head to London's Heathrow Airport en route to Malta for the holidays, I see this item during a spot of web-surfing. It is a piece by Gerard Baker, in the Wall Street Journal. Baker has spent a fair while in the US, and clearly, he's been infected: "But I discovered football when I first came to New York in the late 1980s and my prejudices melted away. It was the era of New...

This week has marked something of a watershed in the British economic debate. The story of the strike on Wednesday was not one of paralysis, but of resilience. There was an 85 per cent turnout in NHS staff; Cumbria council kept every office open as so few staff went on strike; Aussies landing at Heathrow cleared passport control in record time, due to the large number of volunteers who were qualif...

The first test of the political impact of the chancellor's Autumn Statement could come in the west London by-election caused by the death of Labour MP Alan Keen.

Passengers yesterday bracing for strike chaos at Heathrow airport could have been forgiven for thinking they had all received a free VIP upgrade upon arrival at terminal four.

Airport fears disruption from Wednesday's strike by immigration officers

There are fears Heathrow could "grind to a halt" when immigration officers join a national strike over pensions changes next week, sources say.

Former head of the UK Border Agency Brodie Clark has admitted that perhaps he should have checked with Home Secretary Theresa May whether she knew about the relaxation of fingerprint checks at Heathrow.