DEPORTATION flights from a Royal Air Force base cost twice as much as expulsions via civilian airports, the Morning Star has found.

RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire was secretly put into use after a major protest at Stansted airport last year.

Activists from End Deportations, known as the Stansted 15, locked themselves to the wheels of a deportation jet bound for Nigeria and Ghana, preventing the flight from leaving the tarmac at Stansted.