but what are you going to do today, baroness sugg?working closely with gatwick airport to ensure they can reopen. working closely with gatwick airport to ensure they can reopenm working closely with gatwick airport to ensure they can reopen. if the police are unable, though, to identify the person or persons responsible for this drone activity, and it has been going on over a period of 12 hours, and it continues, what other options are there available to you, to try to ta ke there available to you, to try to take this drone out of the air? we know there are various technologies around lasers, which can effectively disable drones and other machines which can fire nets over drones, to try and bring them down. so, what can you say to our viewers and travellers about what you will do today if the police are unable to stop this? firstly what i would say to travellers is i would like them to travellers is i would like them to check with airlines before they travel to the airport because we are facing such disruption. there is up—to—date inf

baroness sugg being questioned in the house of lords. she is the aviation minister. was saying. she said the department for transport, the home 0ffice department for transport, the home office and the mod are all involved in the ongoing situation at gatwick and she referred to the laws currently in place and coming into force to try to control the use of drones. 0ne questioner concerned that there could be a copycat attack, and asking what is being done to stop that. she didn't specifically answer that point. we will keep you updated on the latest. gatwick remains closed as that investigation continues, and they are searching for the drone that has caused all the problems, affecting so many passengers. in a minute we will have all of the business news. first, an update on the headlines. all flights in and out of gatwick airport have been suspended after two drones were seen flying near the runway. 10,000 passengers have been affected. almost 600 homeless people died in england and wales last year — a rise of 24% over five years according to official figures published