Last full-length runway built in the UK ?
Lots of references in the press recently to the last full-length runway built in the UK being Heathrow's, although the media can't quite decide whether that was in 1946 or 1948.
I seem to recall Manchester Airport making that claim on its own behalf, with some justification (3,048 meters of it), in 2001.
Do journalists just have short memories, or isn't Manchester in the UK any more ?