Marc Ashdown
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Heathrow Airport warns third runway could be delayed by four years (opens the original)
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Heathrow Airport has warned that its planned third runway might be delayed by four years due to planning and regulatory issues. The government had hoped the new runway at the UK's busiest airport, estimated to cost £33bn, would open by 2035. But Heathrow sees this deadline as increasingly difficult to deliver without further steps to simplify the planning process. It said on Saturday that it hoped to secure planning permission by 2029 and then open the runway "within a decade". The Department fo
'I didn't speak the Queen's English': Why people worry about their accents (opens the original)
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Growing up in Manchester, Mia Tanswell didn't give her accent much thought - until her first week at university in Loughborough. "I knew people were going to notice that I was northern and that I didn't speak the 'Queen's English'," the 22-year-old says. "Definitely in seminars I would sometimes feel like my accent would sound a bit less intellectual than other people, especially if I was the only northern student in the classroom." She's not alone. Fresh polling seen by the BBC suggests many wo
Major car firms found not to have emissions-cheating devices (opens the original)
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Vehicles from a host of major car manufacturers did not contain devices alleged to have allowed them to cheat on emissions tests, a judge at the High Court has ruled. More than a dozen manufacturers are being sued by around 1.6 million motorists over claims that several diesel vehicles made from 2009 onwards contained "prohibited defeat devices" (PDDs). The cases involved 20 "sample vehicles" made by five manufacturers: Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Nissan, Ford, and Peugeot and Citroen. The 880,000 m
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