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Thursday news. Life goes on.
Thursday news. Life goes on.
Jolly end of year japes at T5: no prizes for guessing their New Year’s resolution. Londoners top the UK pay charts. Apparently. East London teachers are considering strike action following the dismissal of a trainer-clad colleague. Sam Spade – alive and well and living in …
The House of Commons Transport Committee have come to the brilliant conclusion (presumably with a runway majority) that the opening of T5 was a matter for ‘national embarrassment’. They cite lack of communication between BA and BAA, lack of training and insufficient dress-rehearsals as the …
BA may have embarked on an advertising campaign to remind folk that T5 is “working”, but what’s a much better way of getting people to forget said terminal’s troubled birth? Show them that it’s by far the only problematic part of Heathrow. Last night some …
It’s no secret that the opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 wasn’t the greatest success in British aviation history. The words “pissup”, “brewery” and “couldn’t organise a” were very much to mind as the umpteen-billion pound Richard Rogers-designed structure conspired to lose thousands of bags and …
Flight fashion: it’s such a minefield of tricky choices to be navigated with the utmost care. You want comfort, as it’s unlikely to be found on the plane itself. You want something non-restricting should you be required to brawl. You want something that bespeaks a …
Everyone’s favourite and fabulous phone-throwing supermodel, Naomi Campbell, was “bitterly disappointed” to lean that she’ll be called to court June 20 and charged with assaulting two police officers in T5. The supermodel learned of her charges his morning at the Heathrow police station, which include …
Of all the problems Heathrow’s colicky baby T5 has been having in its first few months, we’ve mostly heard about masses of lost baggage and inconveniently cancelled flights. But now there’s a whole new reason to be alarmed, or at least freshly disappointed, at the …
T5 – the new Terminator sequel in which desperate humans do battle with out-of-control machines at Heathrow Airport. The sorry debacle is now enshrined in song, courtesy of Tom Soong, who wanted revenge on BA for losing his wedding clothes days before the ceremony. Warning …
Whistleblowing teacher gets £70k for unfair dismissal from smeared Saudi school Islington’s courting doggy favour Time for eccentric Hackney “moleman” to cough up for repairs T5 scapegoats selected Frisky Epping Forest woodpeckers get aroused and peckish on fragile church roof Image of Chinatown in layers …
Northwick Park Hospital: not the place to have babies. Now they’re trying to find out why. Data: let’s just ban the stuff and stop getting all stressy about it. Now it transpires that no less than 13 London councils have lost sensitive material in the …