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Heathrow Airport chief asleep as airport closed over outage - report

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Thomas Woldbye was in bed as staff decided to suspend operations because of a fire at a nearby electrical substation.

No flights operated at the west London airport until about 18:00 GMT on 21 March because of the blaze which started late the previous night .

Heathrow chairman Lord Deighton said the airport's infrastructure will be made "more fit for the future".