MPs say build third runway
The solution to the regions aviation crisis is a third runway at Heathrow and not a new airport in the Thames Estuary, according to the Transport Select Committee.
Debate over Heathrow expansion continues
A committee of MPs says Heathrow Airport must be allowed to expand to provide urgently needed air capacity in the south. The Transport Committee said a third and even a fourth runway should be built away from existing terminals to reduce noise pollution.
Earlier we spoke to the committee chairperson Louise Ellman and John Stewart from the Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise.
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