January 15 session Heathrow A third runway for Heathrow airport was given the go-ahead by the government – to the fury of MPs and environmental campaigners. The transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, gave his backing to the highly controversial development. Faced with opposition not only from Tories and Liberal Democrats but also from up to 50 Labour backbenchers, Hoon tried to sweeten the pill by...

Commenting on John Hutton’s statement that "we need a third runway at Heathrow", Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said: "John Hutton has let slip what we knew all along: the consultation on a third runway at Heathrow is a sham. "The Government decided a long time ago that it wanted a third runway and is behaving more and more like a subsidiary of BAA. "This makes a m...

The Tories would scrap plans for a third runway at Heathrow and instead build a £20 billion high speed rail line between London and Leeds, it emerged today.

The Conservatives would scrap plans for a third runway at Heathrow, it emerged this morning, introducing a high speed rail link between Leeds and London instead.

The contortions that Labour and its supporters are going through over the third runway at Heathrow are increasingly comic. The attraction of backing a third runway was all political to Brown central. It hoped that it would show Labour as pro-business, prepared to take the ‘tough decisions’ that the Tories duck and, above all, split the Tories between the greens and the ‘pro-busin...

David Cameron faces a backbench rebellion over the Conservative Party's opposition to a third runway at Heathrow airport, as a number of senior opposition figures voice support for the £9bn expansion plan.

My old chum (and former deadly rival) Nick Watt breaks the story in the Guardian today that the Tories would scrap the planned third runway at Heathrow Airport.

  Last night saw a historic rebellion over Heathrow in parliament. 28 Labour MPs voted against the government's plans to add a third runway to Heathrow - supporting an 'opposition day motion' brought by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. That's a bigger rebellion than we were expecting - it seems that Gordon Brown has a serious political problem over aviation expansi...

Geoff Hoon has just announced that Heathrow Airport will get its third runway.  (having leaked the information last night.) Labour MPs like John McDonnell and other politicians and activists have promised to stop the third runway. A third runway would lead to 1,000 houses being demolished and a significant increase of flights in and out of

Gordon Brown has decided that the third runway at Heathrow will go ahead despite the fact that virtually everyone who lives in the area opposes it. That's modern democracy for you. My opposition to the runway is based, admittedly, on nimbyism - although, in my opinion, very justifiably. Living on the Heathrow flightpath as I do I'm well used to the virtual non-stop aircraft noise over my...