Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has again called for the resignation of the CEO of air traffic control company Nats. Mr O’Leary urged Martin Rolfe to step down and put “someone in a competent position” in charge after flights at Gatwick Airport were disrupted on Sunday due to “staff shortages at the Nats”. Analysis of … Read more
Marianne Green, 30, is one of an estimated 150,000 Britons who have flown to Turkey for cosmetic surgery in the past year. The experience was “brilliant,” she says. “We had a hotel stay in Istanbul included in the price. They picked me up from the airport, took me to my hotel and drove me to … Read more
Indonesian workers who paid thousands of pounds to travel to Britain to pick fruit on a farm that supplies most major supermarkets were sent home within weeks because they did not pick quickly enough. One of the workers said he had sold his family’s land and his and his parents’ motorbikes to cover the cost … Read more
Like many Parisians, Mathilde Martin fled to the south of France in the summer. But three years ago, a scorching heat wave made her reconsider her trip to the region where she grew up and where her parents live. “The rising temperatures have been a game changer,” said the 51-year-old teacher, recalling an experience a … Read more
Most of us have a drawer of shame somewhere at home – a dusty cave filled with outdated phones, tablets, dongles and gadgets that were once our pride and joy. It seems wasteful to throw them away, but realistically we know they will never “come in handy”. If we let them go, our old devices … Read more