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Clamour for Government U-turn on Heathrow grows in Telegraph

Calls for the Government to sanction the development of a third runway at Heathrow Airport continue to grow ever-louder in the media, with one paper in particular, The Daily Telegraph, devoting a huge amount of column-inches to the subject in recent days.

Rik Thomas
31 August 2012
The Daily Telegraph on 28 August
The Daily Telegraph on 28 August

 

Comment articles backing a third runway at Heathrow Airport reached near saturation levels towards the end of August, particularly in The Daily Telegraph.

“In recent years, one political leader after another has exhorted business to grasp opportunities in emerging markets,” Baroness Jo Valentine, the chief executive of the London First business lobby group, wrote in the paper on 26 August. “Yet it’s rather difficult to tap into these markets if we don’t have any...

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