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A Qatar Airbus A380 plane comes into land at Heathrow Airport from Doha
[Steve Parsons/PA Wire]
ANTI-RUNWAY activists occupying land near Heathrow airport are now being evicted by bailiffs — just as this month’s temperatures reach a record high.
Protesters living at the Grow Heathrow eco-site were woken today morning by bailiffs from the National Eviction Team, a private company that markets itself as “protester, squatter and traveller removal experts.”
The company is now targeting Grow Heathrow, one of the longest-running squatted eco-communities in the country that was first set up to block the third runway at Heathrow.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
