The plume could hit the UK next week.
Author: UK News
One boy said he felt ‘voiceless’.
The vacccine programme has been pushed back a month.
In Northern Ireland, the generation born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is known as the “peace babies”. Yet, 25 years after the end of the conflict between nationalists, who want a united Ireland, and unionists, who want to remain part of the United Kingdom, the trauma of The Troubles still weighs on the younger generation.
Confusion over ULEZ fines in first weeks of controversial expansion across London ITV says The chaotic first day of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) scheme expansion saw furious protests outside No 10 and traffic cameras smashed or vandalised with spray paint. The Crown Prince of Kuwait had his trip to meet Rishi Sunak partially disrupted by opponents of the charge on motorists using high-polluting vehicles, who staged an angry demonstration outside Downing Street. Police were forced to restrain some anti-Ulez activists as tempers flared in scuffles on Whitehall. Some campaigners chanted “get Khan out” and held up…
Rosamund Kissi-Debrah: Woman whose daughter died from air pollution welcomes ULEZ expansion Sky News says A woman whose daughter died because of air pollution says the expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone is vitally important because children with asthma are still dying from noxious fumes. Rosamund Kissi-Debrah told Sky News that “yes, (ULEZ) is painful, it’s costly”, but added: “Stunted lung growth will cost us on the NHS – that’s your taxes and my taxes.” Between eight and 12 children with asthma continue to die in London every year, Ms Kissi-Debrah said, while across the four nations of the…
Tories accused of hypocrisy in Ulez row after call to extend congestion charge The Guardian says Ministers have been accused of hypocrisy in claiming Sadiq Khan expanded London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to raise revenue after it emerged the Department for Transport urged the mayor to extend the city’s congestion charge for the same reason. On the first day of Ulez covering every London borough there was renewed bickering between the Labour mayor and the government, with Khan castigating Mark Harper, the transport secretary, for what he called factual mistakes after the pair crossed paths at a TV studio. Harper…
We can avoid flight chaos in future, says air traffic boss Martin Rolfe, the head of National Air Traffic Services (Nats) has said the flight chaos caused by a computer glitch should not happen again. Speaking to the BBC, Rolfe said measures were in place to protect against the “incredibly rare” system failure which has left hundreds of fights cancelled. “If that happens again, we can resolve it very, very quickly,” he said. Thousands of passengers have been stranded and many forced to sleep on airport floors, as delays and cancellations are expected to continue for days. Passengers have been…
Disengaging with China not credible, says James Cleverly James Cleverly has said it’s important for the country to continue engaging with Chinese officials, saying it would not be “credible” to disengage. The foreign secretary met with China’s vice president on the first trip to China made by a senior UK figure in five years. He said the trip would help avoid “mistrust and errors.” But ahead of his visit, some UK MPs attacked the government’s approach to China as “incoherent.” Relations between the UK and China have deteriorated in recent years following concerns over threats to civil liberties in the…
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Wednesday’s front pages lead on a few stories including the second day of delays and cancellations in the UK following an air traffic control glitch. Many of the papers feature photos of Ulez protesters, as the London scheme was extended yesterday. Air traffic glitch The Daily Mail reports on no compensation being offered to “air chaos victims” as travellers enter their second day of cancellations and delays following the glitch. The Daily Mirror reports people are “out of pocket” following the glitch as many are paying for new flights and hotels and could be…
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web
browser that
supports HTML5
video
Derek Draper was trapped for around an hour in a passport scanner specifically made for wheelchair users.
The former political advisor, 56, is married to Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway, also 56, and the pair share two children.
In 2020, Derek contracted Covid-19 and suffered serious complications, spending months in hospital and now, years later, still requiring full-time care.
Derek now uses a wheelchair and haas very little strength in his arms, and the complications has also affected his cognition and speech.
It meant that Derek used new disabled passport scanners – created specifically to allow wheelchair users to go through the self-scanners – he was locked in and trapped for an hour.
Kate explained the situation on Wednesday’s Good Morning Britain, where guest Martin Hibbert was speaking about his life in a wheelchair since being involved in the Manchester Arena bombing, having completed Kilimanjaro and taking campaigns to Westminster.
She noted that disability is a large spectrum, and said Derek ‘hasn’t got the cognition’ Martin has, leading to a nightmare situation at Heathrow.
Kate, who recently received an MBE, has been caring for Derek since he contracted a severe case of Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic (Picture: PA)
The couple were travelling back from the United States, where Derek had been for treatment, and the airport was celebrating its ‘achievement’ of getting in a new passport scanner for wheelchair users, as previously they would not have been wide enough to allow them in.
‘Heathrow was celebrating, they put in a new wheelchair-width … passport scanner.
Before then you couldn’t get a wheelchair through. They put one in at vast expense, but when it came to do it with Derek – disability has a wide range, he hasn’t got the cognition you’ve got or the strength you’ve got in your upper body – we realised we couldn’t get him into the country.
The couple have been married for 18 years, with Kate making two documentaries on her husband’s health struggles (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
‘He went forward, the door locked, but the disabled person has to free it and you’re not allowed, because of the border, to do it yourself. So he was stuck in no man’s land, literally between two borders, for an hour or so.
‘So even when conscious effort has been made to make things work, and I wonder if it’s because there aren’t enough disabled people talking about it.’
Kate regularly speaks on life as a carer for her husband and how he is progressing health-wise, and has released two documentaries on the subject: Finding Derek and Carng for Derek.
It was recently reported Kate had been hit with an eye-watering £716,000 tax bill after being forced to shut down her husband’s business when he was first hospitalised with the virus three years ago.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV
Got a story?
If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.
‘Something about your local area may encourage you to take action.’
Tens of thousands more airline passengers suffered flight cancellations on Tuesday.
Lisa admits she was so against the idea of the development at first, that she wrote to oppose it
Plan your transport now.
A man has been taken to hospital after several people fell ill following reports of a ‘funny smell’ at a bank in Nuneaton.
Police responded to reports of a ‘domestic incident’ at her home.
Stock up on your staples.
People stranded as UK flight disruption ‘set to last days’ Air travel disruption has hit the UK, causing travel chaos which is set to last for several days. Despite Monday’s technical issue with air traffic services being fixed within hours, aircraft and crew are now out of place. Transport Secretary Mark Harper has warned that the disruption will last for some time. “Lots of flights were cancelled and it is going to take some days to get people back to where they should be,” Harper told the BBC. According to figures released by analytics company Cirium, more than a quarter…
Notting Hill Carnival: Eight injured in stabbings Notting Hill Carnival has seen eight men stabbed in separate incidents on Monday. One of the men – aged 29 – is in critical condition after being attacked in Warfield Road shortly after 21:00 BST, the Met Police said. Another man, 19, is also in a serious but stable condition after being stabbed in Ladbroke Grove at about 20:00 BST. Six other men – aged 18, 19, 20, 25, 28 and 40 – were left with non-life-threatening injuries in separate stabbings throughout Monday evening. The two-day carnival saw 275 arrests – with 165…
Sara Sharif: Pakistan police widen search for family Police in Pakistan are widening the search for the family of Sara Sharif – the 10-year-old found dead at her Surrey home. Police had launched an international manhunt after Sharif’s body was discovered by police at an address in Hammond Road, Woking on 10 August. Sara’s father Urfan, his partner and his brother travelled to Pakistan the previous day. An inquest into Sara’s death is set to open on Tuesday. Speaking to the BBC, the police in Pakistan say they had expanded the search to two more areas around the city of…
It’s a pretty sweet deal for National Cinema Day.
Camera attacks and conspiracy theories: How Ulez became a vigilante battleground The Independent says For Londoners living on the outskirts of the capital, Sadiq Khan’s Ulez policy is due to take effect on Tuesday despite fierce backlash. First announced by former mayor Boris Johnson in July 2014 and expanded to all 32 of London’s boroughs by Mr Khan, the scheme aims to reduce air pollution by charging non-compliant vehicles £12.50 a day to drive within an ultra-low-emission zone. But the zone’s growth has triggered city-wide protests, a shock by-election result, and the rise of a vigilante group vandalising Ulez cameras.…
This is how many ULEZ cameras there are in London as expansion comes into effect today The Metro says London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is set to be expanded across all London boroughs from today – August 29 – affecting hundreds of thousands of drivers. The ULEZ area comes with a daily charge for driving vehicles that do not meet emission standards in a bid to create a greener city. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan described the ULEZ as ‘transformational’ and claimed extending it will mean ‘five million more people will be able to breathe cleaner air and live…
VEHICLE CHECK Is my car ULEZ compliant? How to check The Sun says THE expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone has received strong backlash from drivers who are now at risk of having to pay a daily charge to drive their normal routes. The environmental policy originally started in the very centre of London but now covers all Greater London boroughs. The ULEZ policy was introduced in 2019 in a bid to cut pollution in the city of London. ULEZ fines drivers of motors that do not meet certain emissions standards, encouraging drivers to use vehicles that meet the…