59 m. ago Manchester airport suspends flights after easyJet planes collide

Two aircraft clipped wings as they taxied to runway for takeoff, with no reports of injuriesFlights were briefly suspended at Manchester airport on Friday morning after two easyJet planes collided with each other, clipping wings as they taxied to the runway for takeoff.The two planes were flying to Paris and Gibraltar. They clipped wings at about 6.30am but were able to return to a stand where all the passengers disembarked. There are no reports of any injuries. Continue reading...

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67 m. ago Manchester Airport delayed and cancelled flights on August 15 after planes collide on runway

Latest updates on the status of flights from Manchester Airport after two easyJet flights 'clipped wings'

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72 m. ago Manchester Airport flights grounded after EasyJet planes clip wings on ground

Airport officials briefly closed the runway while the aircraft were examined.

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77 m. ago EasyJet issue Manchester Airport passengers update after planes 'clip wings' in runway crash

New flights are being arranged for passengers

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83 m. ago Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

(Hubro)Rhythmic repetitions and rustling textures evoke the traditional music and ecological harmony of Maurseth’s native NorwayA hardanger fiddle player from the fjord-and-mountain-filled region of Norway, where the instrument comes from, Benedicte Maurseth explores traditional music, nature and landscape influenced by the idea of ecosophy, a philosophy of ecological harmony. From childhood, she studied under master hardanger fiddler Knut Hamre, exploring the tunes, styles and effects associated with her instrument: its sympathetic strings, funnelled under the fingerboard, are particularly hypnotic, vibrating in response to the notes resonating above, as they do on the sitar and sarangi.A follow-up to Maurseth’s 2022 Nordic music prize-winning Hárr, Mirra is named after an old dialect word describing wild reindeer running together in a circling pattern. Norwegian folk’s rhythmic repetitions feed Maurseth’s intricate compositions (as do the influences of minimalism and Krautrock), b...

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88 m. ago 'The whole plane shook': Manchester Airport drama as two easyJet flights crash on runway

Two easyJet flights crashed at Manchester Airport after 'clipping wings' on their way to the runway

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2 h. ago Chinese economy slows as Trump tariffs bite; FTSE 100 on track to hit new record

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsThe owner of Kingsmill has agreed to buy its rival bakery business Hovis, in a deal that could make the biggest bread brand in the country if it gets the green light from regulators.Associated British Foods, a FTSE 100 company which also owns the retailer Primark, has agreed to buy Hovis from the private equity firm Endless.This transaction will create a UK bakeries business that is both profitable and sustainable over the long term. Supporting the Hovis and Kingsmill brands with well-invested and efficient operations will also enable innovation and growth. This solution will create value for shareholders, provide greater choice for consumers and increase efficiencies for customers.Firms may be running on existing capacity rather than building new plants The July industrial value-add breakdown tells a more nuanced story than the weak fixed asset investment headline. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Manchester airport flight delays after easyJet planes ‘clip wings’ on runway

Passengers are facing delays at Manchester Airport on Friday morning after two easyJet planes appeared to clip wings while taxiing.

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2 h. ago ‘We’re in a healthy relationship!’ Alison Brie and Dave Franco on gruesome body horror Together

Best known for comic roles, the couple talk about how they parlayed their marriage into a sweaty nightmare of a film – and what it’s like to share their love in publicDave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage he has compiled of the worst injuries he sustained on the set of Together, the romance-horror he stars in alongside his wife, Alison Brie. She is not to be outdone. In one scene, Brie’s character is propelled against a glass door by a mysterious force. During filming, it seemed as if her stunt double was walking up to the door “very slowly. I felt like it was not landing the beat,” says the actor. “I said: ‘Let me just do it.’ And that’s what’s in the movie, me running and slamming into the glass. Then, of course, I had a little bruise on my nose that we had to cover with makeup.”Franco and Brie were clearly willing to throw themselves – literally – into the hugely en...

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2 h. ago Two planes 'crash' on runway at major UK airport as flights suspended

The two easyJet planes involved won't be leaving Manchester Airport and alternative arrangements will be made for those affected after the 'crash' on the runway

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3 h. ago DWP issues stark warning to benefit claimants after woman jailed for 20 months

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a warning to millions of benefit claimants after a woman was jailed for 20 months after a court found her guilty of benefit fraud

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3 h. ago ‘By handing over some planning to the kids, I could relax’: readers’ favourite trips with teenagers in Europe

Holidaying with teenagers can be tricky, but our tipsters have discovered glorious destinations and exhilarating activities to keep them entertained • Tell us about a remote part of Europe – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherSlovenia! We started in Lake Bled. Teens loved the Dolinka ziplines, the summer toboggan run, hiking in Vintgar gorge and swimming in Lake Bled. You can hire paddleboards and boats. If you have the money, there is rafting and canyoning too. After seeing the incredible Postojna cave, we went up the Vogel cable by Lake Bohinj. Half-board at the Bohinj Eco hotel kept the teens amply fed and it also has an aquapark, bowling and plenty of games to boot. We finished the trip off with shopping in Ljubljana and the best ice-cream ever at Romantika. Three happy teenagers. Sue Continue reading...

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3 h. ago 'I struggled to eat sandwich at work and now have six months to live'

EXCLUSIVE: A dad who has been fighting for his life after a 35cm tumour was found in his food pipe on Christmas Eve has stopped treatment and has been told his death is imminent

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4 h. ago Livingston runner who beat Laura Muir sets sights on GB place at World Championships

Sarah Calvert stunned elite athlete Muir to win the UK 1500m title

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4 h. ago Market stall holder was a friendly regular at the café, then things turned 'weird'

Jitander Mistry has been jailed

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4 h. ago He was a 'nice guy' and a café regular, then his true nature came out

Jitander Mistry has been jailed

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5 h. ago ‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Revealed: How the mother of a US hitwoman helped convict her own daughter for failed assassination plot

Jeanne Johnson, 64, the mother of Aimee Betro, 45, agreed to handover a DNA swab to the FBI when her daughter went on the run following the botched UK hit.

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9 h. ago The robbers, sex attackers and handbag thieves running riot on lawless London's trains as Tube crime surges

British Transport Police have issued five appeals for suspects across the London train network this week as they probe reports of crimes such as sexual assaults, bicycle theft and wallet robbery.

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11 h. ago S Club's Jon Lee's mum feared he was dead as star went missing after dad's tragic death

S Club 7 star Jon Lee opened up about his father's tragic death during tonight's episode of E4's Celebs Go Dating, as he admitted he "lost the plot" while grieving

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