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British Airways flights in chaos as another IT failure strikes Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers encountered long delays and possible missed connections after another major IT failure. On Monday evening passengers at London Heathrow Terminal 5, as well as airports abroad, say they have been told communications systems have failed. In one example, flight BA365 from Lyon to Heathrow remained on the ground in France for two hours 40 minutes, rather than the expected one hour. The three evening departures from Manchester to Heathrow all arrived at least two hours late, jeopardising connections to destinations such as
British Airways flights in chaos as another IT failure strikes
Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers encountered long delays and possible missed connections after another major IT failure.
On Monday evening passengers at London Heathrow Terminal 5, as well as airports abroad, say they have been told communications systems have failed.
In one example, flight BA365 from Lyon to Heathrow remained on the ground in France for two hours 40 minutes, rather than the expected one hour.
The three evening departures from Manchester to Heathrow all arrived at least two hours late, jeopardising connections to destinations such as Abu Dhabi, Cape Town and Rio.
Starmer criticised for meeting China’s Xi as Hong Kong freedom protesters were being jailed
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Among those sentenced were Benny Tai, who was jailed for 10 years and Joshua Wong, sentenced to four years, for “subversion” after being involved in the “Hong Kong 47” group of activists and lawmakers.
The imprisonments were the largest use of the authoritarian National Security Law brought in to clamp down on democracy in Hong Kong in 2019.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, former chair of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, Emily Lau, suggested Sir Keir’s meeting with Xi at the G20 a mere hours before the sentencing meant the UK’s agreements with China over the governance of the territory before its handover in 1997 were “evaporating”.
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Five British nationals have been confirmed dead due to the wildfires in Bedar, Almeria, Spain, following the identification of additional victims. Thirteen people have died in total, with three British individuals reported to have survived with serious burns.
The Civil and Investigating Section of the Vera Court of First Instance has confirmed that nine of the victims have been identified, including eight foreign nationals and one Spanish citizen. Authorities are expected to release the identities of the remaining victims later today, as investigations into the wildfires continue.
Spanish officials confirmed that five British citizens were among the 13 fatalities from the wildfires in Almeria, with identification of remaining victims expected soon. The High Court of Andalucia stated that authorities are working to identify the remaining casualties, while three British survivors have been airlifted to a specialist burns unit in Seville for treatment.
What remains unclear — The identities of the last three victims of the wildfires have not yet been confirmed.
Five British victims confirmed dead in Spain wildfires amid ongoing identifications
Spanish officials have confirmed that five British people have been killed in the wildfires after the identification of more victims.
Another three people were identified yesterday afternoon and officials said one was from the UK.
The identities of the last three of the 13 victims remain unconfirmed, but that is expected to change later today.
Earlier, police said a 93-year-old woman who died in hospital was British and three of the first six identified through DNA tests and matches with loved ones were also from the UK.
The deadly Los Gallardos wildfires in Bedar in the Almeria ripped through thousands of acres of land and forced people to flee (Picture: Getty Images)
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British pensioner Malcolm Timbrell, 70, living in Bedar with his wife Annette Kilgore, made the split-second decision to return to their home to pick up their cats, Charlie and Lilly.
When he returned to his wife and a group of friends and neighbours, they were out of their cars with a fast-moving wall of fire approaching them, Mr Timbrell told the BBC.
He took cover in a car, but the rest of the group ‘had no chance,’ he said.
Malcolm Timbrell, 70, survived the fire in Bedar with two pet cats, but his wife Annette Kilgrove (right), 69, is feared to have died with 12 neighbours and friends when a wall of flames engulfed them
The forest fire victims include expat couple Pete and Fran Gillam, whose Sheffield-based daughter Danielle Gillam-Kirton had flown to Spain from her home in the UK after they failed to respond to her messages and public appeals for information on their whereabouts.
She said in a Facebook post yesterday: ‘Natalie Gillam Lindsay and I are heartbroken to share that we have received confirmation from the police that Mum and Dad did not survive the fire.
‘We are still trying to come to terms with this devastating news and ask for some privacy and time as we process everything.
‘Thank you for all your love, support, and prayers over the past few days. They have meant more to us than we can ever express.
‘We will share further details when we are able.’
Eerie scene in Bedar where the burned landscape is dotted with the signs for villas, the only items to have survived the flames (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
Wildfires in Spain
The devastating wildfire started last Thursday in Los Gallardos in the south-east Spanish province of Almeria before spreading to neighbouring Bedar where many UK pensioners live.
Confirming the number of British victims had risen to five yesterday evening, the High Court of Andalucia said: ‘During the course of the afternoon, the identification of three more victims of the Los Gallardos fire has been completed. In this case, they are a married couple of Belgian origin and a woman from the United Kingdom.
A villa survived the flames tearing around it in the rugged terrain of Bedar, Almeria (Picture: AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)
‘With these three latest identifications, there would be three of the thirteen victims caused by the fire still to be identified, since the British woman who died in the hospital did not need to be identified.
‘The Civil and Investigating Section of the Vera Court of First Instance, Court No. 3, which is responsible for the removal of the bodies, has already confirmed the nine identifications.
‘In total, the victims of the fire identified so far are four men and five women, eight of whom are foreign nationals and one Spanish.
The scale of devastation in southern Spain after one of the worst forest fires the country has experienced (Picture: Reuters)
‘Of the thirteen people who died—one of them in the hospital—five were from the United Kingdom, three from Belgium, one from France, and one was a Spanish citizen. All of them were adults.
‘The first six identifications of the victims of the Los Gallardos fire took place this morning. Among those identified were a married couple in which the husband was Spanish and the wife was a citizen of the United Kingdom.
‘A man and a woman from the United Kingdom, a woman from France, and a man from Belgium have also been identified.
‘The victims’ families have already been notified in these nine cases. The notification is carried out in person by uniformed officers of the Guardia Civil accompanied by a psychologist.
Another three Brits who suffered serious burns but survived are believed to be among the four patients airlifted to a specialist burns unit at a hospital in Seville.
A British couple miraculously survived the flames after becoming trapped in a ravine during a hike.
Rescuers found them semi-conscious and with 40% burns on their bodies, but alive near Bedar.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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Rain, sleet and snow will linger across central parts of England and Wales this morning. Gradually turning drier this afternoon with some brightness and feeling cold. Snow showers continuing in northern Scotland. Windy around coasts. Tonight, wintry showers continuing in the north tonight, and around some coasts. Largely dry elsewhere with largely clear skies. Widespread frost and some icy stretches where showers fall.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
November 23, 2024
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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