Theo Leggett
BBC Business News Reporter

After years of discussion and delay, the government is due to decide today whether to build a new runway at Heathrow Airport, or at Gatwick.

But given that Heathrow is already operating at maximum capacity, and its rival is expected to run out of space within the next few years, why does it have to be one option or another?

Put simply, why hasn't the option of building an additional runway at both Gatwick and Heathrow been seriously considered?

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Speaking to the Today programme, Tesco chairman John Allan said the government has "just got to be determined to see it through" on airport expansion. 

Refusing to back one airport over the other, Mr Allan said there were arguments in favour of each of Gatwick and Heathrow, although he suggested that Heathrow was better positioned to benefit the UK outside London, because of its proximity to other transport links. 

Mr Allan said that airport expansion was of "symbolic importance", and that after Brexit it would be important for the UK to have the infrastructure, including airports, to be a global trading partner. 

He also said that there were other considerations for the government to take into account, on noise and air pollution, as well as other infrastructure projects concerning connectivity in the UK.

The BBC's Chris Morris looks at how failure to sign an EU trade deal with Canada over Belgium's regional objections could affect EU policy-making decisions.

The government is set to announce later its long-awaited decision on airport expansion, with Heathrow considered the favourite.

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Advocates of a new runway at Heathrow say it's the best option after the Brexit vote because it'll improve connections with non-EU countries and show Britain is "open for business".

But Daniel Moylan, Boris Johnson's former aviation advisor and now a consultant to Gatwick, doesn't agree.

He says it's "not the right Brexit solution" because it's so difficult to deliver.

He'd "be surprised if it's operating by 2030", even though Heathrow says the new runway could be open by 2027. 

There's planning permission, legal challenges, and up to a million people being affected by expansion at Heathrow, he says.

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The Electoral Commission has fined the Labour Party £20,000 for breaking campaign spending rules during the 2015 General Election. 

It's the largest fine the Commission has imposed since it began operations in 2001. 

In a report published today into its investigation into the party's campaign spending return, the Commission concluded that this return was "incomplete" as it was missing 74 payments totally £123,748, along with 33 separate invoices totally £34,392. 

The report says the party's treasurer Iain McNichol committed two offences in delivering this incomplete return. 

Commenting on the outcome of the investigation, Bob Posner, Director of Party and Election Finance at the Electoral Commission said: "The Labour Party is a well-established, experienced party. 

"Rules on reporting campaign spending have been in place for over 15 years and it is vital that the larger parties comply with these rules and report their finances accurately if voters are to have confidence in the system." 

The Party has paid the fine.

• A decision on airport expansion in London is due, with Heathrow considered the favourite to receive an extra runway.
• The clearing of the Jungle camp in Calais continues, with the home secretary saying "hundreds" more child refugees are set to come to the UK.
• Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is to give his views on the economic consequences of Brexit at the House of Lords.
• One of eight candidates in the UKIP leadership race drops out - Bill Etheridge will back Paul Nuttall instead. 

The fishing industry got the Brexit vote it wanted. But it has a lot of work to do if it is to get back control of British waters. It will be a small minnow amid the big fish fighting for special treatment in EU-UK negotiations.

The pound's recent devaluation after June's Brexit vote has already led to some price rises, and model railways are one business feeling the effects.

UKIP leadership candidate Bill Etheridge pulls out of the contest, calling rival Paul Nuttall "the only person who can effectively unite our party".

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That ends today's business in the Commons.

The House will sit from 11:30am on Tuesday, beginning with Treasury questions.

MPs will also debate the Criminal Finances Bill at second reading. 

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Health Minister Philip Dunne says Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been "rated inadequate" by the Care Quality Commission and placed in special measures.

Peter Kyle, the Labour MP for Hove, intervenes to say there are examples of "extreme failure in many different parts of our health system in Brighton and Hove".

Mr Dunne says an NHS "sustainability and transformation plan" will allow for "much greater collaboration" in Brighton and the wider area.

Conservative MP Tim Loughton says that, when services such as the non-emergency transport service are contracted out to the private sector, "much better due diligence needs to be done".

He adds that, with the ambulance service unable to take on the service, there is a lack of other providers to take over provision for patients. 

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Caroline Lucas, the MP for Brighton Pavilion, says problems in the health service in Brighton and Hove will be made worse by the winter.

The Green Party's co-leader also criticises "privatisation" and "marketisation" of the NHS.

Ms Lucas singles out the "non-emergency patient transport service", which is run by private providers.

She claims the service has seen patients complaining of poor service and "some sub-contractors complaining of not being paid".

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MPs pass the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill at second reading.

It will be considered in detail by a committee of MPs at a later date.

MPs deal with the remaining items on the order paper, before Green Party MP Caroline Lucas rises to introduce her adjournment debate on NHS provision in Brighton and Hove.

She describes an "ongoing NHS crisis which is affecting my constituency and the city of Brighton and Hove". 

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Health Minister Philip Dunne says the bill concerns "a treasured national institution, our National Health Service, and the need to get the best value for the taxpayer".

He says it is unusual to debate the NHS with the "degree of consensus that has erupted across the House".

The minister indicates that the government does plan to amend the bill in later stages to address some concerns, such as how information is shared with the devolved administrations. 

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Shadow health minister Barbara Keeley says the House has heard some "staggering examples" of price rises in generic drugs during debate on the bill.

She is concerned that the bill's measures "fail to take into account the unique characteristics of medical devices" and hopes that this will be addressed as the bill progresses through Parliament.

Ms Keeley says planned cuts to public funding for community pharmacies might have an impact on their ability to provide information to the NHS on the cost of drugs.

"They do not have teams of administrative staff who can respond to inquiries for information," she says, calling for any costs to be "fully met by the NHS".

However, she indicates that Labour supports the bill's broad aims.