24 h. ago Real reason flight attendants greet you on planes and it's got nothing to do with being polite

One flight attendant has shared the real reason why flight attendants welcome you.

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3 d. ago Woman, 80, falls from 6th floor flat but survives unscathed thanks to one thing

The 80-year-old woman in Russia was captured on CCTV plummeting from a sixth floor flat, and miraculously survived almost unscathed thanks to landing on a neighbour's car

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4 d. ago 'I refused to swap plane seats with child and their mum hit me with one

A woman has sparked a debate after refusing to give up her plane seat so a mum could sit next to her six-year-old daughter on the flight - but she claims she had a good reason for it

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7 d. ago Huge fire at London flat building with 100 firefighters scrambled

Footage showed flames engulfing a fifth-floor and seventh-floor flat on Leman Street in Aldgate.

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7 d. ago Aldgate fire: Huge blaze rips through block of London flats as 100 firefighters rush to scene

Fifteen teams of firefighters are battling a large blaze in a fifth floor flat in Aldgate, central London, which has also spread to the seventh floor

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1 week ago Blaze tore through Scots home as neighbours screamed 'get out'

A video shared by an eyewitness shows flames shooting out of the flat's windows on the top floor as smoke can be seen billowing out of the block.

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1 week ago The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives

Pawel Lozinski’s documentary collects conversations with passers-by he talks to from the window of his Warsaw flatPolish film-maker Pawel Lozinski has curated this amusing, cumulatively melancholy documentary which he has shot from the first-floor balcony in his flat in the Saska Kępa district of Warsaw. Over a number of years, and with a microphone discreetly attached to the chainlink fence at street level, he simply calls down to people going past and asks them to stop and talk about something, anything.There are a lot of dog-walkers and people with babies; most people smile or grimace politely and say they are not special enough to be featured in a film. A priest says he can’t talk because he is carrying the Holy Sacrament. Others obligingly talk: one woman sings a rather beautiful song, a man talks about being homeless, having just got out of prison. People confide their sadness at the loss of a loved one, though one woman sheepishly confesses her profound happiness that her abu...

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3 w. ago Reason why flight attendants feet are flat on the floor for take off and landing

Air stewardess Henny Lim shared a video on social media platform TikTok explaining why flight attendants sit with their hands tucked under their legs for take off and landing.

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3 w. ago Experts shares real reason why you have to put your phone on flight mode when flying

Aviation experts have warned travellers of the reasons why they should never swith airplane mode off when on a flight and what would actually happen if they did

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last month The shocking reason why you must alert a flight attendant if you drop your phone down the seat

While it may seem like a minor inconvenience, losing your phone on a plane can actually become a serious safety concern - and there's a terrifying yet rational reason behind it.

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