Concern over US use of British airport to transport weapons

A CHORUS of discontent was growing last night over the US use of British airports as staging posts for transporting weapons to Israel.

Aviation chiefs are investigating whether two chartered flights carrying bunker-busting bombs were authorised to stopover at Glasgow Prestwick.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has insisted she is “not happy” and will lodge a formal complaint if the hazardous material protocol failure is proved — raising speculation of a rift in the transatlantic “special relationship”.