You are too late Boris

Meanwhile further to yesterday's posting about Boris's remarks about a New London airport,this morning's Times is reporting that a third runway at Heathrow is a done deal

The paper says that it has learnt

Ministers are pressing ahead with plans for a highly controversial third runway at Heathrow and intend to approve the expansion before Christmas. Although the Government is still sifting through tens of thousands of public submissions on the airport’s proposed expansion, it is understood that senior figures have already decided to sanction it

The report goes onto say that

The Department of Transport is still sifting through 70,000 responses from individuals, pressure groups and other interested parties in response to its consultation on the project, which was released last year

but it understands that the transport secretary Ruth Kelly

strongly supports the proposal and is likely to make the announcement in its favour as early as November.