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Monday, 07 April 2014

BBC News

• VIDEO: Businesses 'want Heathrow to stay'Some businesses near Heathrow want the airport to stay after the Mayor of London revealed plans for the area if his proposal for a Thames Estuary hub gets the go-ahead.

Financial Times

• New signal in hunt for missing MH370Signal picked up by Australian vessel is consistent with an aircraft’s black box flight recorder but those hunting for the missing aeroplane warn that it will be several days before there is any confirmation of what they have found

The Guardian

• MH370: black box-type signals picked up twice by Australia's Ocean ShieldSearch chief says vessel's discovery is most promising lead, though not yet confirmation of the location of the planeA signal consistent with transmissions from the black box flight recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight was picked up for more than two hours in the Indian Ocean, according to the head of Australias joint agency co-ordination centre.In what may be one of the most promising leads yet in the search for the missing flight, the head of the Australian joint agency co-ordination centre, Angus Houston, announced on Monday that the Australian defence...

The Telegraph

• Boris Johnson turns to Denver to revive airport plansBoris Johnson has turned to politicians from Denver, Colorado, in the latest attempt to revive his plans for a new airport hub in the south east

London Evening Standard

• Missing MH370: Hopes grow after 'encouraging' lead in search for Malaysian airlinerNaval vessels carrying sophisticated deep-sea black box detectors are rushing to the site of an "important and encouraging" lead in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner.
• Thames Estuary airport would not lead to job losses, insists Mayor's aviation aideBoris Johnson's aviation aide has insisted that a new Thames Estuary airport to replace Heathrow would not result in thousands of job losses.

Other News Sources

• Plane search ships to probe soundsSearchers hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane are racing to a patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether a few brief sounds picked up by underwater equipment came from the jet's black boxes.