What was going on outside STN perimeter Friday 7 March?
 

Just landed on GO312, left the airport at approx 14:00 via Coopers End roundabout, then the Elsenham/Thaxted road.

On the Three Horseshoes pub junction of the Elsenham/Thaxted road, right under runway 23 threshold, there was the Essex Police heli hovering to one side (brave men!), and four police cars/Land Rover across the junction, and a number of police, some armed, were sniffing around in the undergrowth under the threshold.

Anyone know what they were up to? (just being nosy:D).

"Look East", lunchtime broadcast 12 March said a car had been stopped and a quantity of arms seized. Of course, this is five days later.

Alternatively, it was some very confused peaceniks waiting to throw rotten vegetables at B52s.

It has since been reported (in the Eastern Daily Press today), that a quantity of arms were found in the vehicle/s concerned, but the police had stopped them at this location - they had been following them on the M11 for a considerable time, and were acting on "information recieved".
Purely coincidental that they were where you saw them.

Just to add to niknak's post, the guns did not come in through the airport, but in a lorry load of frozen chickens, which had been subject to a tip off from Europe, and monitored throughout it's journey.
Good work the boys in blue.

Thanks for the info guys - but the news reports say the car containing the guns was stopped at J7 on the M11, which is about 20 miles away from where I saw the heli/police, so the mystery continues.......:confused: