Telegraph: Armed with bolt-cutters, activists from the group Plane Stupid cut through the wire perimeter fencing shortly after 3am and chained themselves to metal fences they had brought with them. Many of the protesters – who settled just 164ft (50m) from the runway – were driven to the airport in a 30-year-old second hand fire engine, while others arrived by bicycle and car. The stand-off with police lasted for more than five hours as each protester had to be cut free by officers with …