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Heathrow

Heathrow Airport
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About Heathrow

Heathrow Airport, also known as London Heathrow Airport and named London Airport until 1966, is the primary and largest international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system.

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In 2005, there was a passenger coming through Heathrow who said she had something small to declare and she walked through the red lane. They looked in her luggage. She had 104 kilos, 16 stone of snails in her luggage.

from 138: No Such Thing As Fluff Island, 2016-11-04 at 00:31:02 · read transcript

Other times Heathrow came up

  1. I miss the colonel. Can I tell you something about adhesion? I think you will like. This is in 2008, a campaigner against a third runway at Heathrow attempted to glue himself to Gordon Brown at a Downing Street reception. He's called Danglass. That'd be terrible because you'd have to spend all Saturday night watching X Factor. He was about to receive an award from the Prime Minister for his campaigning work, and then he stuck out his super-glued hand and touched the Prime Minister's sleeve, and Downing Street later said there was no stickiness of any significance.

    42: No Such Thing As A Bloober Reel, 2015-01-10 · listen

  2. Is it someone who's erected a tent on the runway? Just how I was wondering, or someone who's only set up an automatic system that every time the noise goes over a certain volume, so that that is possible. What this did happen in Heathrow in 2015, Heathrow found that some people had automated software that could generate complaints. They found out because when the clocks changed, they didn't change the clocks on their system.

    430: No Such Thing As The Assistant Honcho, 2022-06-10 · listen

  3. Or someone who set up an automatic system that every time the noise goes over a certain volume... That is possible. What this did happen in Heathrow, In 2015, Heathrow found that some people had automated software that could generate complaints. They found out because when the clocks changed, they didn't change the clocks on their system. They started complaining about flights that hadn't taken off yet.

    No Such Thing As The Assistant Honcho, 2022-06-10 · listen

  4. I was pushing him. Bit of a show off. Bit of a show of ET. Then there was the last one which I did put on Twitter yesterday, which was Woody's toy gun was confiscated from him recently at Heathrow. There's the guy who was confiscated from, took a picture and the guy is literally removing this tiny toy gun from Woody. Do you mean the toy gun from Woody?

    34: No Such Thing As A Giant German Sandcastle, 2014-11-08 · listen

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