Land bought by Greenpeace to defy Heathrow expansion quietly sold for £1

Greenpeace and its celebrity supporters sold the land in 2012, declining an option to retain it until 2014, but some people still visit believing it is theirs

It was, some believed, to be an orchard of perpetual, flourishing resistance, its trees adorned with plaques bearing the names of the great and the good and keeping Heathrow's third runway at bay forever. In a defining moment of the last anti-Heathrow campaign, Greenpeace, backed by political leaders and celebrities, announced: "We've bought a piece of land slap bang in the middle of the proposed third runway site."