A REIGATE campaigner against airport expansion has been spared jail, after grounding flights at Heathrow.Rob Basto, a member of the "Heathrow 13" and campaign group Plane Stupid, was sentenced at Willesden Magistrates' Court last Wednesday along with 12 other defendants, after a trial earlier this year.A protest took place in July last year when the 13 defendants blocked a runway at the London airport. Basto, 68, of Blackborough Road, was given a six-week prison sentence, suspended for...
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