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Is Heathrow Really So Noisy as to Warrant its Closure?

According to figures supplied by the Montreal-based Airports Council International, in 2011 London Heathrow Airport advanced one peg in the world passenger rankings to No 3 - beating Chicago O'Hare International - with a total throughput of over 69.4 million, an increase over the previous year of 5.4 per cent. Plane movements averaged 1,305 per day, affecting, if some critics of Britain's only true hub airport's expansion plans are to be believed, some two million people!

Barnes & Noble launch Nook e-readers & tablets

Barnes & Noble launch Nook e-readers & tablets
The world's biggest bookseller, Barnes and Noble, has thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon and other rivals with the launch of a glut of new, rather unusually titled NOOK electronic devices here in the UK.
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