One week before its ill-fated opening, BAA’s Press Officer hobbled around after me in Heathrow’s new Terminal 5, wincing.
“Please don’t photograph the baggage”, she pleaded desperately. “It could be taken out of context!“
Probably twice her age, I had only 60 minutes in situ. I raced around the Departures concourse of practice suitcases, trolleys, digital information [...]

Surrounded by the rolling hills and scrub of Salisbury Plain, the media strode towards a low hillock where red MoD firing range flags on paint-peeled poles, twitched in the breeze.
“Snipaahrs!” came the Crufts bark from a Sergeant-Major and three soldiers wearing bracken camouflage rose up from near our feet. Then, crouching again they adopted sniping [...]