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A view over Heathrow airport
HEATHROW’S owner wants to press on with plans to expand by building a third runway, the Supreme Court heard today.
At the two-day hearing Heathrow Ltd is seeking to overturn a previous ruling.
The expansion was approved in principle by ministers in 2018, but the decision was successfully challenged by a group of local councils affected by the proposed plans and environmental charities Plan B, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.
Lawyers to challenge approval of data centre in Britain that ‘pollutes on the scale of an international airport’
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
