Photographers hit by clampdown on pictures
18.08.06
A national newspaper photographer covering last Thursday morning's terror alerts had his pictures deleted by police at Heathrow, and all photographers arriving at the airport were banned from taking pictures, the Press Gazette reports.
Daily Mirror photographer Mike Moore was taking photographs at Heathrow when he was confronted by police. At least one other photographer, working for a news agency, is reported to have had his photographs deleted as well.
The chairman of the British Press Photographers Association, Jeff Moore, who went to take pictures at Heathrow Airport following the alerts, said: 'You weren't allowed to take a camera into the airport or even outside the airport. If you did, you were told you would be arrested. You weren't even allowed on the concourse. BAA are very aggressively anti-press.'
But a BAA statement said: 'Heathrow is private property and governed by byelaws. Essentially these prohibit the press without authority from BAA. If they breach those byelaws it is a criminal offence. BAA do appoint residential accredited press.'
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