Gatwick fires last-ditch warning over Heathrow expansion 'risks'

Gatwick Airport will fire a last-ditch warning about the "risks" of expanding rival Heathrow just hours before a committee chaired by Theresa May approves the first new runway in the south-east for decades. Sky News understands that Gatwick executives will write to the Cabinet sub-committee on airport expansion on Monday in an eleventh-hour attempt to persuade ministers that it should be permitted to build a new runway. Sources said that Gatwick's letter would reiterate the case for the Sussex a