THE government is expected to announce next week what its preferred option is for airport expansion.

Slough Borough Council and the Royal Borough are divided over the expansion, with Slough supporting the third runway at Heathrow Airport and the Royal Borough against it.

Heathrow has stressed the amount of jobs it will create should expansion be granted, with it quoting more than 76,000 new positions on site, with 180,000 jobs across the country.

Opposers to the plans say that the environmental impacts will have a hugely detrimental impact on the communities surrounding the airport.

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