41 h. ago ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

Amid the ruins and with fuel scarce, the animals provide vital transport for the injured as well as goods and belongingsIt felt like an “earthquake from the sky” when an Israeli airstrike hit the clinic Dr Saif Alden had left just minutes earlier. Alden had been treating animals hurt and abandoned amid Gaza’s destruction. They survived but the equipment and medication the mobile clinic needed to function was destroyed.Still, the team saw it as a setback, not a defeat. Alden has spent the month since the airstrike traversing Gaza to scavenge the tools needed to resume operations. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Loose Women star left stranded on empty flight as staff lose her wheelchair

Channel 4 TV star and disability advocate Sophie Morgan has revealed her nightmare flight experience after landing at Heathrow Airport on a British Airways flight

Politics

3 w. ago Why was Heathrow airport slow to resume operations after substation fire?

Time spent switching power supply and rebooting systems raises doubts over resilience of Europe’s largest aviation hub

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3 w. ago Heathrow Airport 'open and fully operational' as Scots flights resume after substation fire

Dozens of Scots flights were cancelled after a blaze knocked out an electricity substation in Hayes late on Thursday evening.

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3 w. ago Heathrow airport live: Flights begin landing after mass disruption as airport aims to resume ‘full operation’

BA expects to operate around 85 per cent of its scheduled flights

Society

3 w. ago Heathrow airport live: Passengers to face ‘huge’ impact into the weekend as airport aims to resume ‘full operation’

The London airport said it hopes to run a ‘full operation’ on Saturday after flights resumed on Friday evening

Society

3 w. ago Heathrow airport live: British Airways warns of ‘huge’ impact into weekend despite flights resuming after fire

The London airport said it hopes to run a ‘full operation’ on Saturday after flights resumed on Friday evening

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3 w. ago London Heathrow Airport resumes operations after nearby fire, but backlogs expected

London Heathrow Airport resumes operations after nearby fire, but backlogs expected  CBC.ca

Society

3 w. ago Heathrow says 'some flights' to go TODAY and reveals when 'full operation' will resume

It comes after Heathrow Airport was forced closed for the whole day after a huge fire tore through an electrical substation supplying its power - with thousands of flights cancelled

Politics

3 w. ago Heathrow says some flights will take off today and reveals when 'full operation' will resume

Heathrow Airport has issued a statement after it was forced closed for the whole day as a huge fire tore through an electrical substation supplying its power - with thousands of flights cancelled

Politics

3 w. ago Hamas launches barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv in first revenge strike after 'hundreds killed' in Israel's new Gaza bombing campaign

Hamas said it fired rockets at Tel Aviv on Thursday in its first military response to the growing civilian death toll from Israel's resumption of air and ground operations in Gaza.

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