Campaigners against Heathrow expansion vow resistance

Harmondsworth

ON a bright December day in the degraded countryside around Europe's biggest airport, campaigners stacked piles of wood for barricades and vowed they would never allow the sprawling hub to expand further.

The "Grow Heathrow" camp, occupying scrubland close to the London airport, began in 2010 to stop the construction of a third runway that would demolish hundreds of homes and which activists say would mean Britain will fail to reach its emissions targets.