The airport was closed for 98 minutes on Monday, May 11 after a fire broke out in the aircraft’s right main landing gear and passengers were evacuated using slides

Flight operations had to be halted after a major airport was closed following an incident involving a Turkish Airlines aircraft.

The Tribhuvan International Airport was closed for 98 minutes, between 6.34am and 8.12am on Monday, May 11, according to Gyanendra Bhul, assistant spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. It is understood that a fire broke out in the aircraft’s right main landing gear.

Part of the airline’s wide-body aircraft became stranded on Taxiway Bravo, while the rest of the aircraft remained on the runway. Authorities were forced to halt all domestic and international flights.

A total of 288 people, including 11 crew members, were on board the aircraft, The Kathmandu Post reported.

Preliminary information showed that a tyre on the aircraft’s right main landing gear had caught fire. Possible causes could include a hard landing, tyre pressure issues or other technical problems, officials said.

Passengers were evacuated using evacuation slides. Two passengers sustained minor injuries to their fingers, according to Turkish Airlines.

The aircraft has been grounded while technical inspections continue and hotel arrangements have been made for passengers scheduled to depart from Kathmandu. Authorities are also preparing to send urgent travellers to their destinations on alternative flights.

A maintenance, repair and overhaul team will investigate at the airport, while the Civil Aviation Authority’s Flight Safety Standard Department will also carry out a detailed inquiry.

The county’s police force has deployed officers to patrol Fairburn, Brotherton and South Milford, near Selby, in response to ongoing reports of motorbikes causing nuisance in those areas.

A force spokesperson said three traffic offences were identified by Sherburn-in-Elmet neighbourhood policing teams and a motorbike was seized.

North Yorkshire Police said patrols will continue in the area and further action will be taken where offences are identified.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections.

In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program.

“During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger,” Trump wrote.

Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.

But his announcement is reminiscent of familiar claims he made in the run-up to the 2024 presidential race in which he planted seeds of doubt on the validity of U.S. election – seemingly dependent on the outcome.

Trump’s post was in response to Democrats forming an election integrity task force aimed at identifying and mitigating threats to U.S. elections.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said last month Democrats would partner with former Attorney General Eric Holder and election lawyer Marc Elias, who helped the Democratic Party counter Trump’s lawsuit in 2020, to assist in the effort.

“Donald Trump knows, his party knows, that they’re at risk of losing this election in 2026, which is why they’re working round the clock to tilt the scales unfairly in their favor,” Schumer said.

The president asserted the Democratic-led task force “will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere with our Elections.”

The president’s latest Truth Social post about election integrity is part of his long-standing efforts to implement more regulations on voting and attempt to investigate debunked claims of ballot fraud.

Since returning to office, the president signed an executive order attempting to restrict mail-in ballot voting and directing the government to create a list of eligible voters, he’s demanded Congress pass federal voter ID laws and sought to have Republican-led states redraw congressional maps in their party’s favor.

The U.S. Constitution largely gives states the power to administer elections and create rules.

Trump’s election denialism stems from his claims that the 2020 was rigged to favor Democrats, despite election infrastructure experts, state audits, federal judges and members of his own administration concluding there was no widespread evidence of voter fraud in the election he lost.

Election experts had consistently assured voters that U.S. elections have been and are secure.

In the 2024 election, the RNC created a “Protect the Vote” program in which average citizens could sign up to be poll watchers on Election Day to make note or report signs of suspicious activity. They also recruited lawyers to assist on election-related litigation. The RNC said more than 160,000 volunteers participated in the last election cycle.

Cambridge South station, located next to Europe’s largest medical research facility, is set to open in June with direct services to London, Birmingham, Brighton and both Gatwick and Stansted airports.

A new railway station serving Cambridge Biomedical Campus will open next month, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed.

Trains will start stopping at Cambridge South station – situated beside what is Europe’s largest medical research facility – from June 28.

It will welcome up to nine trains per hour from Cambridge, alongside direct services to destinations including London King’s Cross, London Liverpool Street, Birmingham New Street, Brighton, Gatwick Airport and Stansted Airport.

Services will be run by Greater Anglia, Great Northern, Thameslink, and CrossCountry. The scheme to construct Cambridge South, which is anticipated to serve 1.8 million passengers every year, was chiefly funded by a £250 million Government investment.

It secured a combined £5 million in contributions from pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority, and the Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership.

The station features a so-called green roof, incorporating solar panels and a rainwater collection system with a wildflower meadow environment.

The DfT stated Cambridge South will be the first new Great British Railways (GBR) branded station. GBR is an forthcoming public sector body that will supervise Britain’s railways.

Research undertaken at Cambridge Biomedical Campus tackles some of the most urgent global healthcare challenges, including developing methods for detecting cancer early and understanding dementia. The campus contributes £4.7 billion annually to the UK economy, a figure projected to reach £18.2 billion by 2050 while its 20,000-strong workforce is expected to double.

Rail minister Lord Hendy said: “Cambridge South will open up access to jobs, homes and world-class facilities for people across the region, boosting the growth of the Biomedical Campus as one of the most important engines of growth in the country.

“As the first new Great British Railways branded station, the opening is an important milestone for our railways and a sign of the real change public ownership will deliver.

“Faster connections supporting economic growth, thousands more jobs and homes, and a railway that works for the communities it serves.”

Network Rail chief executive Jeremy Westlake said: “Cambridge South station will significantly improve travel and connectivity for campus staff, visitors and the wider community for many years to come.

“Thousands of people have worked tirelessly on this fantastic project to build a modern, accessible and sustainable station that reflects the excellence of the work that is being undertaken in Europe’s largest biomedical facility.”

Imagine being in England’s position as the VAR in Stockley Park.

The pressure on the official must have been huge. He cannot hear the Sky commentary, he has no idea what public opinion is.

This is the referee who, in September 2023, was responsible for the biggest VAR mistake the Premier League has seen.

It was England who misinterpreted an on-field offside decision, causing a goal for Liverpool‘s Luis Diaz to be wrongly disallowed at Tottenham.

England had to fight his way back up to top-flight refereeing after that.

Today he was presented with a decision that could decide the fate of two clubs.

You can’t blame him for taking his time. He had to get this right.

England spent two minutes 41 seconds poring over every angle of the footage, checking the possible foul, the potential penalties.

We have seen pushing, shoving, grabbing and pulling on corners all season. Goalkeepers have been pressuring and harried too.

Is this different? Crucially, it was.

Arsenal have been the kings of it all season, crowding and surrounding goalkeepers at corners, finding ways to create space and score goals from set-pieces.

That they benefit from it in such a crucial way won’t be lost on some.

But it is hard to argue that the Spain international was not impeded. Without the foul contact by Pablo, Raya would surely have had a simple catch.

Pablo had his arm across Raya and he was holding on to the goalkeeper’s left arm too.

England checked the other possible fouls too, by Trossard on Pablo and Rice on Summerville.

Importantly, the first foul that had a direct impact on play was Pablo on Raya. You cannot give a penalty for a foul that may come after this.

England had to get that right – and he did.

Referee Kavanagh spent one minute 15 seconds at the monitor. He too would have known the consequences of his final decision.

In total, four minutes 11 seconds potentially deciding the title and the final relegation place.

If it takes that long, can it really be clear and obvious? That is the wrong way to look at it. With such a huge, season-defining call, take as long as necessary to make sure you are getting it right.

England will have spent the final few minutes of the game wondering if he’d made the right call.

There are no communications inside the VAR room, no mobile phones, no way of gauging if you’ve done the right thing.

Imagine the relief when he walks out of the room and is told he’s got it right, that Pablo has impacted Raya from playing the ball.

On Saturday, England will take charge of the FA Cup final between Manchester City and Chelsea.

That was unthinkable two and a half years ago. Now he’s got the landmark game on the football calendar – and he’s exorcised his VAR demons.

One of the 17 Americans evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship in Tenerife has tested positive for hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, as Brits returning to the UK face a 45-day self-isolation period

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One of the 17 American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship in the Canary Islands has tested positive for the hantavirus, though is not showing any symptoms, U.S. health officials confirmed late on Sunday.

The charter flight carried 17 Americans rescued from the MV Hondius after it docked in Tenerife, the largest island in the Spanish archipelago situated off the West African coast. The aircraft was due to touch down in Omaha, Nebraska, in the early hours of Monday morning.

The Americans were initially due to be flown to the University of Nebraska, home to a federally funded quarantine facility, where assessments would determine whether they had been in close contact with any symptomatic individuals and their risk levels for transmitting the virus.

“One passenger will be transported to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit upon arrival, while other passengers will go to the National Quarantine Unit for assessment and monitoring. The passenger who is going to the Biocontainment Unit tested positive for the virus but does not have symptoms,” said Kayla Thomas, a spokesperson for The Nebraska Medical Center.

The MV Hondius arrived in Tenerife on Sunday morning, with Spanish authorities beginning evacuations of the cruise liner organised by nationality and transporting passengers to port via small boat. The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed its aim was to complete the vessel’s evacuation, with the exception of 30 crew members remaining on board, by 7pm on Monday. Travellers were instructed to leave their belongings on board the vessel and were permitted to take only a small bag containing essential items, such as their mobile phone and passport.

Late last night, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, confirmed on X: “Most passengers and crew of the MV Hondius cruise ship successfully disembarked today.”

British nationals returning to the UK will be required to self-isolate for 45 days and will be prohibited from using public transport to travel to their homes. Following the isolation period, public health specialists will determine whether passengers are able to self-isolate at home or at an alternative suitable location, depending on their living circumstances.

In a post on X, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper stated: “Thank you to all those who worked around the clock to get passengers from MV Hondius back to the UK by special flight this evening with public health protections in place. The UK has worked with Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands and the WHO to coordinate safe returns.”

Anthony Adams became Dr Anthony Brennan and created various bogus personas, including targeting an Under 10s football team and a bereaved family.

The relentless deceptions of Anthony Brennan have been chronicled in the Daily Record for eight years. Cases have ranged from amusing to deeply sinister – and several have involved innocent victims being duped out of money and the Walter Mitty passing himself off as a doctor.

The latest court conviction for the schemer came at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, where he admitted defrauding blind army veteran Bill Mackie, taking medals and cash from trusting Bill and sending him on a wild goose chase to Tanzania.

Our barely believable revelations chart how Bill, 72, and wife Heather, 67, bought plane tickets for Tanzania and turned up for a meeting with the African nation’s foreign minister in the capital of Dogdoma in 2023.

Bill and Heather were humiliated when the politician was not available – and had never heard of any meeting.

He was so furious at the wasted 9,000 mile round trip that he reported Brennan, 32, to the police – presenting officers with Daily Record stories that documented the scammer’s previous deception antics.

He also told how Brennan made his own fake Interpol card, telling Bill he had the power to arrest international gangsters. It is believed that there are many more victims of Brennan that have not yet come to light.

The delusions of grandeur that have motivated the bogus doctor have been in place for many years but we caught up with him in 2018, when he recruited trainee first aiders, who thought they were employed by a bona-fide private ambulance company.

First aiders have accused a Walter Mitty employer of using them to “chase ambulances” and failing to pay wages.

Then aged just 23 and going by the name Anthony Adams, the scammer held open days to recruit staff – including doctors, nurses, medics, and drivers – for National Events Medical Services, claiming he would be covering major sporting events.

But staff told how he charged them £250 for training and uniforms – then refused to cough up for work they did.

The work involved waiting for alerts via an electronic alert system then trying to beat the Scottish Ambulance Service to the job.

Here are just some of the other outrageous deceptions concocted by Anthony Brennan/Adams:

In April 2022 we told how Adams had paid £60 for a fake doctorate from a bogus university – and changed his name to Dr Anthony Brennan. These deceptions allowed him to be accepted as a member of the Royal Society for Arts.

After signing up for the academia.edu website, which gathers the achievements of bona-fide academics, the Walter Mitty character passed off award-winning work by world-famous US scientist Professor Anthony Brennan as his own.

The Record later spoke to the real Dr Brennan, who furiously denounced the ginger impersonator.

Those revelations followed more alarming news in 2022 on the fraudster, who’d been passing himself off as a Celtic scout.

Brennan was reported to police after approaching the Under-10 boys’ coach and saying he’d been sent by the giant Glasgow club.

He was convicted at Ayr Sheriff Court and given a Community Payback Order for 18 months.

Adams had earlier been accused of stealing North Ayrshire Council ID badges and clothing and impersonating a council employee. A not guilty plea to this charge was accepted.

In January, 2024, Brennan was finally jailed for six months after he pretended to be a surgeon and gained entry to restricted areas at Ayrshire’s Crosshouse Hospital between July 3 and October 2021.

Cruel Brennan befriended the family of a man who died in a motorcycle accident – and spun a web of lies that led to him having a key role at the man’s funeral.

He also told the dead man’s sister the dead man had become a dad before he died – and falsely claimed to have heard his dying words.

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard that NHS chiefs had re-examined their security measures at Crosshouse after Adams’ deception raised “significant concerns”.

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Adolescence star Stephen Graham seems to have mistakenly revealed that a new project is in the works after the major success of the Netflix show.

The megahit explores toxic masculinity and the manosphere through the lens of the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie (Owen Cooper) for the murder of a female classmate.

It is one of Netflix’s biggest ever hits – the second most-watched English language drama globally – and has been a mainstay of awards season for the past year, securing breakout star Owen an Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta.

The rest of the main cast, including Ashley Walters, Christine Tremarco, Erin Doherty and Stephen (also a writer and executive producer), as well as co-creator Jack Thorne, have also enjoyed an acclaimed year.

After winning major prizes such as supporting actor, supporting actress, lead actor and best limited drama at the 2026 Bafta TV awards, the show’s award run has ended on a high note – with more questions than ever over its future.

Although the cast and crew have been tight-lipped about a potential second season, Stephen appears to have implied something new is in the works.

He attended the winners conference alongside his wife and producing partner Hannah Walters, and his fellow cast and crew.

The iconic British actor was asked: ‘There’s no Adolescence 2, but where do you go from here? Does this inspire you to make projects?’

Speaking to Metro and other publications, he replied: ‘Do you want me to… well, yeah, there’s something in development right now which is… is it public?’

He was quickly shut down by the others on stage, who said ‘no, no, no’ as he diverted the conversation to co-star Ashley’s new movie coming out later this year, his directorial debut, Animol, which explores masculinity in the juvenile prison system.

Of course, Stephen’s faux pas neither confirmed nor denied whether there was a second Adolescence season coming or an entirely new project in a similar vein, but we know something is brewing on the horizon.

We’ve heard very little about the show’s future over the months.

In April 2025, Deadline reported that the production company behind Adolescence was in early talks about the ‘next iteration’.

Plan B co-president said they were hoping to ‘widen the aperture, stay true to its DNA [and] not be repetitive’ with plans to bring Stephen and Jack back on board.

Since then, near radio silence. But, in January, when asked about the next instalment, Stephen said: ‘I cannot answer that question because it’s somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind and Jack’s mind, and we’ll pull it out in three or four years, so stay tuned.’

Whether the project Stephen mentioned is in development is linked to what he has so far teased remains to be seen, but his latest remarks are the most encouraging sign yet that something could be happening sooner than later.

As for his Bafta, the eight-time TV award nominee finally bagged the coveted award.

In his acceptance speech, he said: ‘We’re not digging holes, we’re not digging ditches, we’re not saving lives, but we have the opportunity to tell the human condition, and we have the obligation to tell beautiful stories and we need to keep that going.’

Adolescence is available to stream on Netflix. The Bafta TV Awards 2026 is available to catch up on BBC iPlayer.

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Alison Britton’s father John Anderson died in 2011 aged 72, after being infected with Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion.

A grieving daughter whose dad was a victim of the infected blood scandal says the dead are being “pushed to the back of the queue” in the battle for long-overdue compensation.

Alison Britton’s father John Anderson died in 2011 aged 72 after being infected with Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion.

The former merchant navy seaman and engineer, from East Kilbride, near Glasgow, was one of more than 30,000 people in the UK to be infected with HIV or Hepatitis C after being given NHS blood products. Thousands of them were in Scotland.

Alison, 60, from Inverness, said many families dealing with the estates of loved ones who have since died have been angered by the way a compensation scheme set up in the wake of a damning public inquiry report two years ago has been handled.

She said many have not even started the claim process and a lack of answers and transparency is compounding their grief.

Alison said: “People who are in the last 12 months of their life are being paid first and quite rightfully so. But there is a large community in the deceased estates – over 3,000 – and we’re just feeling that our loved ones paid the ultimate price. They died. We don’t feel we’re being recognised and our loved ones are being recognised.

“They opened up the scheme for the deceased estates in December. They’re only taking a handful of people at a time.

“These are people who lost children in the 70s or 80s. You’ve got very elderly people, some who are in nursing homes, and we’re just not being recognised.

“We’re feeling angry and let down and haven’t been given any guidelines or expectations of when you’re going to be called. The authority are not being open with us at all.”

It is estimated that about 3,000 people in Scotland were given infected blood in the 1970s and 80s.

Many had received transfusions on the NHS, while others were being treated for haemophilia. Hundreds have now died.

In Scotland, the vast majority of infections came from its own blood donations and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) has been criticised for not adequately screening donors and for taking donations from prisoners.

Prisoners were known to be at greater risk of infection due to a higher population of intravenous drug users.

Although most of the blood used in Scotland was from Scottish donations, the exception was Yorkhill hospital in Glasgow where children were treated for haemophilia.

The hospital regularly received plasma products sourced from paid donors in the United States.

Scotland was the first part of the UK to commission a public inquiry into the scandal. But after a six-year probe costing around £12m, the report made just one recommendation – that anybody who had a blood transfusion before 1991 should be screened for hepatitis C.

The 2015 report was condemned as a “whitewash”, with some setting fire to copies of it in the street.

A UK probe, by Sir Brian Langstaff, found in 2024 that the disaster could largely have been avoided if different decisions had been taken by health authorities.

It said too little was done to stop the importing of contaminated blood products and there was evidence of cover ups.

The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme was also rolled out that year – pledging to pay £11.8billion to those affected.

But in May last year, Sir Brian ordered extra hearings after the inquiry was bombarded with letters expressing concerns about the way the government’s compensation scheme for victims had been managed.

An extra report found that victims had been “harmed further” by the way they had been treated during the process.

Alison, who gave evidence to the public inquiry, said she had also been let down after losing dad John, who needed a blood transfusion for a ruptured stomach ulcer in 1980.

She said: “For years he felt unwell. He was feeling cold, his joints were aching, and eventually in 1999 they did a blood screening and he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C.

“He ended up with sclerosis of the liver and lots of scaring and tumours on his liver.

“He had to undergo regular biopsies and scans until 2004 when he received a liver transplant. He got just over seven years, but the last two years of his life were awful because his liver was failing. He was having acute episodes of confusion.”

John, who moved his family to Islay after leaving East Kilbride, died just two weeks after being moved to a hospital in the Highlands to be closer to Alison, his only child.

The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) has so far made over £2.4 billion in compensation offers to more than 3,000 victims, separating claimants into categories.

Interim payments have been paid in many cases, though others have still not received a penny.

Alison said: “We’ve registered our intent to claim but then you have to wait to be invited to start the claim process. You’re waiting on a weekly basis to see if they pull your name out of the hat.

“Because we’re part of this community and trying to be supportive of one another you’re hearing people’s stories all the time.

“There’s a huge feeling of disappointment that (the authority) won’t communicate with us and answer specific questions.

“People are dying at a rate of one every four days, that was the latest figure, so there is also a feeling, especially amongst the elderly, that they’re waiting for people to die as their claims die with them.

“IBCA are telling us that deceased estates claims are more complex, that’s why they are starting with small numbers. This isn’t actually the case.

“They have compensated over 3,000 of the living infected, and rightfully so, but the dead are being pushed further and further to the back of the queue.

“As a community, the estates of the deceased are becoming more and more upset, angry and helpless.

“It is completely unacceptable and continues to compound the grief and that feeling of loss that we felt at the time of the death of our loved ones.”

A spokeswoman for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) said: “Those impacted have waited decades for recognition and to get the compensation that they deserve. That’s why our priority is to pay every eligible person as quickly as we can, while making sure we build a compensation which is right for all claims.

“While we cannot comment on individual circumstances, we are prioritising and paying claims based on recommendations made by the Infected Blood Inquiry. This means that we are processing claims for every eligible group of people. Within these groups, we prioritise claims made by all those who are sadly nearing the end of their life, and then people from older age groups.

“We would ask anyone who thinks they may be eligible but has not yet registered for compensation to do so by visiting the IBCA website – ibca.org.uk.”

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