Just 80 out of 4,000 drone users here are licensed to fly them – as the number of drones in use here continues to rise.

An incident in which a device believed to have been a drone came within 20ft of an about-to-land passenger plane at Heathrow Airport has been described in an official near-miss report.

Air safety chiefs have investigated the first near miss between a passenger jet and a drone near Heathrow Airport, amid fears that drones could pose a danger to commercial flights.

A US spy drone has flown through UK airspace for the first time, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.