3pm today, swaggering through Heathrow Terminal 5, tanned as a leather armchair, after flying in from LA. He was accompanied by a huddle of blonde ladies in their early-mid twenties. Daughters? Girlfriends? PAs? Spotted a celeb today? Share the goss in the comments.......

If you're a highly recognisable global statesman, whose successor's pathetic performance is making the country remember why they fell in love with you in the first place, it can be tempting to think that you're above the laws of the land. That's the only explanation we can find for the damning news that Tony Blair was apprehended by a ticket inspector as he travelled on the Heathrow Express on Wednesday. Upon asked for a......

T5 - the new Terminator sequel in which desperate humans do battle with out-of-control machines at Heathrow Airport. The sorry debacle is now enshrined in song, courtesy of Tom Soong, who wanted revenge on BA for losing his wedding clothes days before the ceremony. Warning - contains an image of an ass.......

Protesters have this morning scaled atop the roof of the Houses of Parliament in protest at the planned expansion of Heathrow Airport. Just days after a similar protest at the airport itself, the five activists, from airline campaign group Plane Stupid, gained access via a fire escape, having got into the building on visitor passes, and unfurled a series of banners, one of which read "No 3rd runway at Heathrow", another "BAA Headquarters". For......

Four Greenpeace protestors mounted a freshly landed Boeing 777 on the tarmac at Heathrow this morning to protest against a 3rd runway and it's implications for the "climate emergency". BAA are calling the protest "unlawful and irresponsible" which it probably is but, more pressingly, how the hell did 4 volunteers with a flourescent banner manage to walk from Terminal One, across the tarmac to the plane and clamber on top of it without hundreds......

Ahead of the opening of Terminal 5, Heathrow is trialling biometric security checks with passengers who transfer onto domestic flights from Terminal 1. According to BAA, the airport operator, the added checks are needed because international and domestic transfer passengers go through the same areas. Should you happen to be transferring onto a domestic flight through Terminal 1 between now and March 27 when Terminal 5 opens, and agree to having your photograph and......

This is what we have learnt this weekend whilst you have been making your mince pies: The tube link to Heathrow Airport is celebrating its 30th birthday. Spicing up Christmas - they’re back and better than ever. Apparently. Appalling teenage violence continues. Perhaps they should all be kept indoors from the ages of 12-19. The Savoy Hotel has closed for a facelift. As one does when one reaches a certain age. ‘Cept this one......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 26th November 1983: An armed robbery at the Brinks Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport becomes the largest heist in British history, as £25 million worth of gold bullion is pinched. Tuesday – 27th November 2000: 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor is stabbed in the leg and dies in Peckham, south London. The following six years would see several trials and re-trials over the killing, finally culminating in the......

Heathrow Airport: to expand or not to expand, that is the question. The debate can begin in earnest, as today Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly laid out options for consultation, including a potential third runway and sixth terminal. With Terminal 5 not even finished yet, it may seem premature to be discussing more construction work, but the Government stressed that it would take until 2020 for a new runway and terminal to be operational. Kelly......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th August 1937: Barbara Windsor is born in Shoreditch in central London. She would achieve fame as an actress, notably as a ‘saucy strumpet’ in the Carry On films of the 60s and 70s and later as a major character in Eastenders. Tuesday – 7th August 2001: The Department of Health pays £27 million for a private Harley Street heart hospital, re-nationalising it and bringing it into......

The Monument gets a facelift Potential flooding impact on London reassessed, as new film comes out Heathrow Airport has made Hounslow residents 'thick' Air raid siren plays whenever a traffic warden approaches Council's 'Robin Hood' goes to jail for breaking the rules to help people Image courtesy of pixelthing.com via the Londonist flickr group.......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 11th June 1988: The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (a.k.a. Mandela Day Concert) takes place at Wembley Stadium. On a scale approaching the Live Aid concert that took place some three years earlier, more than 600 million people worldwide tune in to watch the epic day-long concert featuring dozens of high profile bands protesting against the apartheid regime in South Africa and the ongoing incarceration of Nelson......

Battersea Power Station’s future remains in doubt as the fantastic hulk of the art-deco building itself remains in sorry dereliction. Yesterday, the Guardian reported that the new owners of the £400m prime 36+ acre riverside site, Treasury Holdings, had scrapped development plans approved by Wandsworth Council in November last year and speculated whether London might be about to lose the four iconic chimneys altogether to yet another bland, luxury, residential development if the Power......

If Islam had confessionals like the Catholic faith, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's imam would be a busy man. "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z." "I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl." "I was responsible for planning, surveying and financing for the operation to destroy Heathrow Airport, the Canary Wharf building and Big Ben on British soil." These and around 30 other admissions......

Lots of international papers are picking up the story of a body found in the landing gear of a BA flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles: A pilot discovered the body of the young man in the front right wheel well of the 747-400 during a routine inspection shortly before it was to return to London, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said. The FBI determined the stowaway likely died in the wheel well, Castles said.......

An IT specialist living in London was refused entry to his flight from Melbourne because of the shirt he was wearing. It wasn't covered in semtex, dripping explosive water or concealing boxcutters, but it did say WORLD'S # 1 TERRORIST above a photo of George Bush: It was not the first time Mr Jasson had been told to remove his T-shirt. On December 2, a security guard at London's Heathrow Airport told him, "You......

4pm: BBC: A flight from London to Washington DC has been diverted to Boston after the pilot declared an emergency because of a "passenger disturbance". United Flight 923, with 182 passengers, left Heathrow Airport and landed at Boston's Logan International Airport, an airline spokesman said. Three passengers are believed to have been involved with a confrontation with the crew on board the flight. State police are said to have taken control of the plane......

...but you can never leave: A US-bound plane carrying 240 passengers was turned around mid-flight for security reasons. American Airlines flight 109 left for Boston on Monday, but two hours into the journey it turned back to Heathrow Airport in west London. Apparently four people were being spoken to at Heathrow. Now we watched Passport to Pimlico for the umpteenth time yesterday making us nostalgic for the days when all a policeman had to......

This afternoon, Londonist has very much enjoyed pouring over the lurid details of the fun and games that took place at Heathrow Airport yesterday. Calvin Broadus, Snoop Dogg to we and you, has now been released "on police bail" and is free to travel on to South Africa, where he'll be performing in Johannesburg on Thursday as part of the country's Freedom Day celebrations (presumably the organisers are not after a family-friendly show, given......

The first tentative predictions for a white Christmas in London are starting to come through. The Weather Action website is predicting a 50/50 chance of snow in the capital on Christmas Day...so either it will or it won't then. Great. William Hill are not so sure, they're offering 9/2 on the chance of a flake or two, while Paddy Power are offering 6/1 that snowfall will be "officially registered at Heathrow Airport on Christmas......

Science has finally managed to catch up with the adverts in the back of comics from about 20 years ago with the introduction of an X-Ray machine that makes people look naked. Admittedly it's not in the handy spectacle format all perverts in training have been craving, but the new scanner installed in Londons Heathrow Airport uses new technology to render "naked" images of passengers passing through. Whilst naked pictures of complete strangers is obviously......