Guardian: Rail groups hailed but business criticised Conservative plans, unveiled today, to scrap the third runway at Heathrow and build a £20bn rail link between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. John Stewart, the chairman of Heathrow anti-expansion group Hacan, said the Tory plan was “a bold one fitting for the 21st century”. He said: “The Conservatives realise that business is not clamouring for a third runway. What they desperately want is a better rather than a bigger …