London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s largest in terms of passenger traffic, announced early this morning that it will be completely closed for the entire day on Friday due to a ‘significant power cut’ as a result of a fire at an electricity substation in the British town of Hayes, west of the capital. British counter-terrorism police […]
The security alert comes just a few weeks after drones were spotted near Gatwick Airport’s runways, disrupting the Christmas travel plans of 140,000 travellers. Police officers are responding to a “security alert” at Terminal 2 of Heathrow Airport, the Daily Mirror reported Sunday, claiming that the disruption had started at 1:30 pm. According to posts […]
K. J., Japan Airlines first officer, was arrested at Heathrow Airport, London, for being under the influence of alcohol. Jitsukawa was found to have 189mg of alcohol per 100ml of his blood — surpassing the legal alcohol limit of 20mg for pilots almost ten times. Earlier, the police were alerted by the crew bus driver, […]
The Metropolitan police said that a 30-year-old man was detained on Thursday at Heathrow airport in London on suspicion of preparing a terror act. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A 30-year-old man was detained on Thursday at Heathrow airport in London on suspicion of preparing a terror act, the Metropolitan police said in a statement. “Officers from […]
Supermodel Kate Moss has opted to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate the New Year. The Daily Mail reports that that Ms Moss, her boyfriend and daughter took flights to Thailand from London Heathrow with the aim of staying in Phuket until the start of 2011. She was snapped at the airport looking relaxed […]
Thai Airways International on December 21 yesterday cancelled flights from Bangkok to London because of adverse weather conditions at Heathrow Airport. It also announced it would increase domestic flights during the New Year season. A limited number of flights are being allowed to operate to and from London. Therefore, priority for flight departures will be […]
A MAN who was critically injured in a road accident in Thailand was due to fly home to his family tonight in time for Christmas. Antony Giles, of Stapleford, was a passenger on his friend’s moped when it was in collision with a car on November 25. He suffered serious injuries to his legs, arm […]
