The company formerly known as BAA is to sell Stansted airport to the Manchester Airports group for £1.5 billion.

Why does Manchester want another airport – surely it’s already got one?

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The pilot of the helicopter which crashed in central London on Wednesday morning may have been trying to change channel on his communications radio when the aircraft collided with a crane at rush hour.

Londoners who live, work or commute close to the river may be startled to learn that the Thames is the capital’s thoroughfare for helicopters

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The number of passengers passing through Heathrow’s terminals hit a record high of 5.6 million in December as demand for European, Middle East and east Asian flights soared.

Up to 10cm was predicted to fall overnight and into the early hours of Monday morning, spreading southwards from Scotland

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Each week, we invite three companies to offer us their best deal for a specific break. Today: a two-week tour of Cuba. Prices are per person, based on two people travelling together. Each includes 14 nights' accommodation and flights from London to Havana at the end of February.

The comedian Jim Davidson has said he will be “completely exonerated” by a police investigation into allegations he sexually assaulted two women.

Alentejo escape

A Lincolnshire farmer who has spent 17 years investigating rumours that dozens of factory-fresh Spitfires could be lying buried under Burmese soil expects to find the aeroplanes “perfectly preserved”.