By Anonymous Coventry Airport may have to wait until October for a decision on its legal challenge to the government's refusal of permission for its expansion, it has emerged. West Midlands International Airport Ltd took its challenge to the High Court last week (Planning, 25 July, p6).

By Gillman, Susanna Coventry Airport's owner has taken its long-running battle to build a passenger terminal to the High Court this week.

AN operation to recover the bodies of five people killed in a horrific aircraft crash will continue today. Members of the public watched in horror as the Cessna 402 and a light aircraft collided in the skies above Coombe Abbey Country Park in Brinklow, Warwickshire, just after 11.30am yesterday.

By Rhona Ganguly; Tom Scotney Emergency services were searching woodland last night for the bodies of five people killed in a midair collision between two small aircraft on the approach to Coventry Airport.

Coventry Airport is a major hub for Thomsonfly, the largest charter airline in the world, but is also very popular as a base for small, private flights. It was built in the mid 1930s, and was soon pressed into use as a military base - RAF Baginton - during the war.