Thames airport 'should be rejected' - MPs report

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By Alex Lennane

10/05/2013

Some progress on the UK’s new hub airport, perhaps? Politicians have dismissed London Mayor Boris Johnson’s plans for an airport on an island in the Thames Estuary as expensive, environmentally damaging and bad for Heathrow. Businesses are pleased that something is happening, but have called on the government to “stop dithering”.

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