Days, weeks, months, years, said the boy. Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.

London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.

I said i was dying not that i wanted to live”

I don’t need to ring anyone. I said I’m dying. I didn’t say I wanted to live.