Passenger demand has soared in recent weeks after all Covid restrictions - including
testing and self-isolation requirements - were lifted in England. Budget airline EasyJet has
cancelled more than 220 flights, blaming the disruption on high levels of staff sickness
due to Covid.
A British Gas lawyer has won a sex discrimination case after she was made redundant
when her female bosses decided she had been 'less focused' since going part time after
having triplets. Intellectual property specialist Gemma Long was let go from the energy
supplier after her managers - who were also lawyers - put pressure on her to work on her
days off.
A head midwife was sacked after she referred to overweight women as 'bloaters' and
'whales on a bed', an employment tribunal heard. 'Bully' Jennifer Stillman created an
'awful atmosphere' on the ward at Basildon Trust University Hospital as she also made
derogatory comments about her fellow staff, the panel heard.
A protester from Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a radio microphone while live on air
this morning. Climate activist Nathan McGovern, was speaking to Tom Swarbrick in LBC's
Westminster studio when he glued his hand to the microphone at around 11.40am.
Industrial action by Spanish lorry drivers has disrupted the supply of salad vegetables and
soft fruits including tomatoes, peppers and lettuce into Britain. It comes as the the UK's
biggest cooking oil bottler has also warned it has just a few weeks' supply of sunflower oil
left as the Russian invasion of Ukraine is disrupting exports
he BBC is making hundreds of thousands of pounds from magazines that come with
plastic toys despite signing up to the Net Zero green agenda. Immediate Media, which
produces BBC publications including Countryfile, Good Food and CBeebies magazines,
has admitted that cover-mounted toys help the Corporation earn an extra £300,000 a
year.
A former Taliban torturer has won the right to stay in the UK over fears he would be
tortured himself if he was sent back to Afghanistan. The Home Office accepted that
deporting him to his home country would place him at 'real risk' of torture and could
breach his human rights.
Hundreds of spectators gathered under sunny skies along the River Thames in London
for the annual university boat race, as weather forecasters predicted a 'fine Sunday'
following a noticeably chilly start to April. .'
Gulls are now considered to be urban creatures, after new data revealed an estimated
three quarters live in cities and towns across the UK. A report from Natural England
found that herring gulls are nesting in built-up environments, and highlights the potential
for more human and bird conflict in the future.
