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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jacob Phillips

Night flights at Heathrow have 'catastrophic effect' on residents and should be banned, says MP

A London MP has made a fresh call for planes at Heathrow airport to be banned from taking off or landing at night, arguing that her constituents are kept up by the “roar of jet engines”.

Richmond Park MP Sarah Olney has said that night flights are having a “catastrophic impact” on residents' health and has called on the Government to produce a report on the benefits of banning flights from arriving or leaving airports between 11pm and 6am.

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