When Peter the Great visited Holland and then England in the late 1690s, it was ostensibly to study the latest shipbuilding techniques. He deliberately avoided the usual trappings of emperors, making a point of living among ordinary people and working as a carpenter.

BAA should press ahead with the sale of London's Stansted airport, the Competition Commission said yesterday, provisionally concluding that there had been no change in circumstances since it first called for the disposal two years ago.

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Ryanair is to introduce direct flights from London Stansted and Liverpool to Rhodes in April, its first foray into Greece, £37.99 each way.

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A man pleaded guilty today to making a bomb hoax threat on a passenger airliner which was diverted under a fighter jet escort.

A passenger airliner was diverted under a fighter jet escort today after a man began making threats on board.

The airports operator BAA raised its full year earnings forecast yesterday on the back of higher passenger numbers at Heathrow. The company, owned by Spain's Ferrovial, said it now expected adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to exceed the recent forecast of £972m, with recent strength expected to continue in 2011.

The Government today announced the first nine electric cars for which drivers will be eligible for a 25% Whitehall-paid grant.

A doctor who exploited "vulnerable" multiple sclerosis patients by exaggerating the benefits of stem cell therapy faces being struck off after his fitness to practise was found to be impaired today.

Posters for the Stansted Express have been banned for wrongly implying that the train would take passengers to central London in 35 minutes, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said yesterday.

Twenty-four cars belonging to people travelling abroad have been burnt out after a fierce fire took hold in the long-stay car park at Stansted airport.