Environmental campaigners reacted angrily yesterday to the Government's decision to allow a massive expansion in capacity at one of the UK's largest airports.

By DAMIEN HENDERSON THE UK Government faced the wrath of environmental campaigners yesterday after it ruled out local authority objections to a massive expansion of Stansted Airport and dismissed fears of its noise and pollution impact on nearby residents.

By Anonymous Opponents of a second runway at Stansted Airport have welcomed a Competition Commission recommendation that BAA sell two of its three London airports.

A major overhaul of London's Heathrow Airport Terminals 1 and 2 will not be finished in time for the 2012 Olympics, said terminal operator BAA Ltd.

Protest group Plane Stupid played aircraft noise through the letterbox of Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly's London Docklands apartment yesterday morning on a day of protest against the expansion of Heathrow.