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Grieving mother, 46, takes her own life after 20-year-old daughter dies from botched gastric band surgery in Turkey
Erin Gibson, 46, took her own life two days after an inquest into the death of her daughter, Morgan Ribeiro, was due to be held. Morgan, a 20-year-old nursery worker, died in January 2024 after travelling to Istanbul for gastric sleeve surgery, having paid just £2,500 compared with the £8,000–£10,000 such an operation typically costs…
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Aviation minister ridiculed as it emerges he boasted about air traffic control being ‘well prepared’ and given ‘increased resilience’ – just a day before it went into meltdown, stranding thousands of travellers
Labour was mocked after it emerged that aviation minister Keir Mather praised Britain’s air traffic control system as “well prepared” with “increased resilience” just a day before it suffered a major meltdown. A four-hour technical failure at National Air Traffic Services (NATS) forced the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights, leaving over 330,000 passengers facing…
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Breathtaking untold story of what happened to the WTC’s twisted wreckage on the night of the attacks… and the ongoing battle over ‘microremains’
A new book, Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the WTC by Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran, reveals for the first time in detail what happened to the nearly two million tons of debris removed from the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attacks. The research traces how wreckage was distributed across all 50 US…
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‘I have a very loud voice and am happy to help’: Hero of Gatwick reveals why he turned into human megaphone to help stranded passengers – and how it took him 25 hours to get home
Kurtis Toy, a 36-year-old cyber security consultant from Aberdeenshire, became known as the “Hero of Gatwick” after using his loud voice to help overwhelmed easyJet staff communicate with hundreds of stranded passengers during widespread flight disruption. He stepped in on Tuesday after his own flight to Aberdeen was cancelled following a four-hour delay caused by…
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World Commemorates 9/11’s 25th Anniversary with Ceremonies and New Grief Support Initiatives
The United States marked the 25th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on Friday with ceremonies at the three attack sites: the 9/11 Memorial in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania. The attacks, in which 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four commercial airliners, remain a defining…
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Maresca backs Anderson over ‘kings of Manchester’ dig before derby clash
Enzo Maresca has backed Elliot Anderson’s claim that Manchester City are the “kings of Manchester”, ahead of his first Manchester derby in charge of the club as they visit Old Trafford on Sunday. Anderson made the comment after his £116m summer move from Nottingham Forest, pointing to City’s eight Premier League titles in the past…
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‘Delay the meals’: Mikel Arteta reveals latest maverick Arsenal methods
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has revealed he deliberately sets his players unusual challenges, such as delaying meals before matches and overheating the dressing room, to prepare them for unexpected disruptions on matchdays. The comments follow Arsenal’s flight to Naples for their Champions League opener against Napoli being delayed by more than five hours, forcing Arteta…
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25 years later, 9/11 memories endure as nation gathers to honor nearly 3,000 lives lost
The United States is marking the 25th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks with ceremonies at the three attack sites: the National September 11 Memorial in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania. The commemorations honour the nearly 3,000 people killed when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized…
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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander demands air traffic meltdown report on her desk within days as embattled NATS boss who took home £2.2m in bonuses is accused of lying over IT crisis that hit 2,000 flights
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has ordered Martin Rolfe, chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to hand her a report by next Wednesday explaining the technical failure that led to the cancellation of around 2,000 flights this week. Mr Rolfe faces mounting pressure to resign after the outage disrupted roughly 330,000 passengers, with Ryanair…
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PATRICK DARDIS: Burnham’s new holiday tax is delusional, unforgivable and, for many in the hospitality trade, unsurvivable
Daily Mail columnist Patrick Dardis criticises Labour’s proposed “overnight visitor levy”, a new tourism tax he warns could devastate seaside towns such as Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset and hospitality businesses nationwide. He argues the policy, confirmed by Housing Secretary Angela Rayner, would compound existing pressures on the sector from higher national insurance contributions, the rising minimum…