In his speech, Johnson recommended three optimal locations for the new airport: the Isle of Grain in north Kent; Stansted; or on an artificial island in the middle of the Thames estuary.

The masts are set to be cut from a wartime shipwreck in the Thames Estuary that is packed with 1,400 tonnes of explosives. Cargo ship SS Richard Montgomery was anchored in Sheerness, Kent ...

The firm said it had concluded that the London Gateway on the Thames estuary in Essex was "the ... expanding London Gateway and London Stansted Airport. Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, Labour MP for ...