This isn't specifically expansion related but here goes anyway...
RW 27/09 is closed at the moment for resurfacing between A3 and B. Seems to be rather odd that this work is going on; I thought this runway was earmarked for closure and absorption into an extended parking apron in the non too distant future. Perhaps the boys are going to extend the apron the other way instead.
The Watchman radar head was removed from its tower yesterday and carted off for maintenance. Seemed to take hours to do the job; how many nuts and bolts and cables are there ? So at the moment the LBA radar service is secondary only which is piped in from Claxby, Lincs. Here's hoping that when it returns from Siemens Plessey or wherever it's sporting a new paint job and the very latest in super duper SSR heads on its top. LBA can stop paying the CAA for SSR cover then. Mind you, I can't deny that it is the CAA who's providing at the moment so fair play to them.