A third runway at London's Heathrow Airport has been supported by Chancellor Rachel Reeves as part of a new strategy to boost the UK's weakening economy.

The Chancellor's plans to build a third runway at Heathrow could turn great swathes of the English countryside into "noise sewers", campaigners claim.

Chancellor’s optimistic economic growth vision hit in the short term as Tesco and Lloyds announce hundreds of job losses and she admits fixing the economy is ‘not an easy job’