2 d. ago Holidaymakers face worst air traffic control issues in 25 years with 30 million passengers facing delays this summer

Exclusive: 30 million passengers flying to, from and within the UK could be delayed this year – with Heathrow and Gatwick particularly stretched

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3 d. ago Holidaymakers face the worst air traffic control delays in a quarter century

Exclusive: 100 million passengers flying to, from and within the UK could be delayed this year – with Heathrow and Gatwick particularly stretched

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3 d. ago Air traffic control delays will be ‘worse than last summer’ warns Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary

Exclusive: ‘Flightradar24 could provide most of the air traffic control service across Europe free of charge’

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9 d. ago Why I can't stand for the SNP at the next election after a quarter century as an MSP

Writing in the Daily Record, long-serving MSP Fergus Ewing lays out why he won't stand for the SNP next year.

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1 week ago Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins review – second Hunger Games prequel is not for the faint

Moments of lyricism and literary flourishes help to leaven the grimness as the backstory of Haymitch Abernathy, eventual mentor to Katniss Everdeen, takes centre stageFrom the publication of the first volume in 2008, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series was an enormous hit, later adapted as hugely successful films. Inevitably, a prequel was spawned, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020), now followed by Sunrise on the Reaping, set about a quarter of a century before the events of the original trilogy.The books’ success partly lay in Collins’s skilful refashioning of an ancient story, the myth of the Minotaur, which she placed in a futuristic world, giving agency to the weak to overthrow the powerful. But it also came from her close attention to the effects of social media and reality television, as she examined the line between the authentic self and pretence, and how narratives can be manipulated for advantage. In this new book Collins returns to these familar themes with the ...

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2 w. ago It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state | Andrew Rawnsley

Proving that government can be a force for good is essential if Sir Keir Starmer is to see off the populist rightListening to Sir Keir Starmer’s recent lament that the “flabby” state is failing Britain was to experience deja vu all over again. More than a quarter of a century has passed since another Labour prime minister, one Tony Blair, vented his frustration with the public sector by complaining that trying to reform government had left him with “scars on my back”. In similar vein, David Cameron’s lot used to excuse their struggles to get stuff done by blaming resistance from the amorphous administrative “Blob”. Dominic Cummings told Boris Johnson that the solution was to pack Number 10 with “weirdos”, “misfits” and “wild cards” – a self-description if ever there was one – while purging the senior civil service. He was still working his way through his “shit list” of mandarins when he got the boot himself. You will not recall the Johnson administration as an able and stable outfi...

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2 w. ago Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd signed for just 3 months on soap as he 'confirms' future after 25 years

The actor will soon be celebrating a quarter of a century on the Cobbles as David Platt

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2 w. ago Heartbreaking moment retired circus elephant mourns beside its long

The pair Jenny and Magda had been inseparable for more than a quarter of a century and retired four years ago. They have since roamed the Taigan Safari Park in Russian-occupied Crimea

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2 w. ago Ryanair passengers 'stranded' in Spain after air traffic control decides to go home

The Ryanair flight was forced to divert after a medical emergency, but passengers and crew were then left abandoned in the Spanish city after air traffic control staff refused to delay their home

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3 w. ago Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s

Powered chiefly by enthusiasm and primitive publishing tech, these publications shaped the future of video games mediaIn the summer of 1985, I made the long pilgrimage from my home in Cheadle Hulme to London’s glamorous Hammersmith Novotel for the Commodore computer show. As a 14-year-old gamer, this was a chance to play the latest titles and see some cool new joysticks, but I was also desperate to visit one particular exhibitor: the publisher Newsfield, home of the wildly popular games mags Crash and Zzap!64. By the time I arrived there was already a long queue of kids at the small stand and most of them were waiting to have their show programmes signed by reigning arcade game champion and Zzap reviewer, Julian Rignall. As an ardent subscriber, I can still remember the thrill of standing in that line, the latest copy of the mag clutched in my sweaty hands. I wouldn’t feel this starstruck again until I met Sigourney Weaver a quarter of a century later.It turns out I’m not the only o...

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