4 d. ago Ryanair boss warns 100,000 passengers could have flights cancelled next week

The airline expects to cancel 600 flights across the first two days of French air traffic control strikes

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5 d. ago Asylum seekers deported to France live in fear of smugglers’ reprisals

Six asylum seekers placed in homeless shelter say they are ‘frightened’ they will be forcibly returned to home countriesThe first group of asylum seekers deported to France under Labour’s “one in, one out deal” have spoken of their fear of being pursued by smugglers and being forcibly returned to their home countries.The men spoke just hours before a larger group of asylum seekers were due to be forcibly removed to France on a private charter flight to Paris early on Thursday morning, with a second drop off in Albania planned. It is thought that at least seven people will be removed in a significant ramping up of ‘one in, one out’ removals. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Cat Stevens postpones book tour of North America due to visa issues

Singer who now goes by Yusuf Islam was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, out in the US in OctoberCat Stevens, who now goes by Yusuf Islam, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues, the singer announced on social media Monday.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, which will release in the US on 7 October and was made available in the UK earlier in September. The book release won’t be impacted, Islam wrote, noting that “books don’t need visas!” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Yusuf / Cat Stevens postpones book tour of North America due to visa issues

Singer who now goes by Yusuf Islam was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, out in the US in OctoberCat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf Islam, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues, the singer announced on social media Monday.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, which will release in the US on 7 October and was made available in the UK earlier in September. The book release won’t be impacted, Stevens wrote, noting that “books don’t need visas!” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cat Stevens postpones North American tour and cites visa issues

Cat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf, announced Monday that he has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues

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8 d. ago Stag do faces 5 years in prison after trying to open plane door mid

The Ryanair flight had to diverted to France because a drunk yob attempted to open the plane door mid flight before fighting with fellow passengers several times

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8 d. ago British man faces jail in France after 'trying to open the doors on Ryanair flight' and forcing it to land

The man is said to be ‘the ring leader’ of a drunken stag party who were dragged off the flight by police on Friday

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8 d. ago Ryanair terror as Brits 'cause chaos' on Benidorm flight forcing divert to France

Armed french police boarded the plane which had taken off from Luton and was heading to Benidorm after the captain was forced to divert the plane to France

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8 d. ago British stag do force Ryanair flight to land in France and brawl with police in front of terrified passengers before being arrested 

As the flight took off, the group immediately began drinking duty-free booze and 'engaging in loud, inappropriate conversations all within earshot of young children seated nearby'.

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1 week ago Netanyahu’s plane avoids France in flight to meet Trump in US

Israeli prime minister, who is subject to international arrest warrant, bypasses European allies following rupture over Gaza

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2 w. ago Matthew McConaughey reveals bedroom secret that's kept his 13

The 55-year-old Oscar winner - who shares three children with the Brazilian-American model - opened up about the topic in his new book titled Poems & Prayers which hit shelves on September.

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2 w. ago Two out, 200 in: Farce of Starmer's small boats policy in action as hundreds of new illegal migrants arrive into Britain... in a single day 

On the second day of the Prime Minister's deal for reciprocal returns to France, just two asylum seekers were deported on a scheduled flight - a day after an Indian migrant was also returned.

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2 w. ago British Airways flight attendant found naked and gibbering in plane toilet after going 'AWOL in San Francisco' and taking meth avoids jail

Haden Pentecost, 41, told his colleagues he was suffering with stomach cramps before starting his shift on a ten-hour flight from San Francisco to London Heathrow on May 25.

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2 w. ago BA attendant found naked and high on drugs in toilet on Heathrow flight avoids jail

Haden Pentecost, 41, was discovered under the influence of drugs having taken his clothes off on the flight from San Francisco

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2 w. ago ‘Homeless, destitute and in fear’: The grim future facing migrants returned to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal

Lawyers for migrants under the ‘one in, one out’ deal have argued that they will be destitute if they are returned to France with little support and all transit sites full. Holly Bancroft looks at what will happen to those who are sent back

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2 w. ago EasyJet crews did 'everything possible' before passenger's horror mid

An easyJet passenger tragically died shortly after flight EJU6775 departed Nantes Loire Atlantique airport in France, as the aircraft made its way to Lanzarote

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2 w. ago Second migrant deported to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal

A High Court bid to have his removal temporarily blocked failed

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2 w. ago Toddler is passed onto Channel dinghy as hundreds more migrants risk lives to reach UK despite 'one in, one out' deportations

More migrants risk lives to reach UK as an Eritrean man is deported to France on Heathrow flight under ‘one in, one out’ deal

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2 w. ago Second deportation flight takes off under ‘one in, one out’ deal

A High Court bid to have his removal temporarily blocked failed

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2 w. ago The Lost Bus review – Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in dynamic real

McConaughey plays the unassuming real hero who drove a schoolbus full of children out of California’s deadliest wildfireThe political context has been scorched away in Paul Greengrass’s empowering inferno. This is a dynamically shot and earnestly performed real-life disaster movie about California’s terrifying 2018 Camp fire, a darkness-at-noon horror that became the deadliest wildfire in California history, killing 85 people and razing more than 150,000 acres. Greengrass and co-screenwriter Brad Ingelsby have taken their inspiration from Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, about the calamity and the ironically named town caught up in it, pointing up the extraordinary, unassuming courage of school-bus driver Kevin McKay who piloted a busload of screaming kids and their teacher through hell to safety.America Ferrera plays the caring, if slightly prim teacher Mary Ludwig and Matthew McConaughey is the rough, sweaty everyman hero be...

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