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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Nadeem Badshah

Counter-terror police say fire that shut down Heathrow airport not suspicious

Smoke billowing from electrical substation
The fire at the electrical substation in Hayes resulted in no planes being allowed to take off or land at Heathrow, causing diversions which affected about 1,300 flights. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

A fire that led to the closure of Heathrow last week is no longer being treated as a “potentially criminal matter”, Scotland Yard has said.

The Metropolitan police’s counter terrorism command had been leading the investigation to establish the cause of the blaze at the nearby electrical substation in Hayes, west London, that started on Thursday evening and was still burning on Friday.

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