An RT employee, James Scott, was detained and interrogated for two and a half hours under UK counterterrorism laws upon arrival in Manchester. His electronic devices were seized, and he remains under investigation.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for assaulting two female police officers and a member of the public at a Manchester airport Starbucks in July 2024. The incident, captured on widely shared mobile phone footage, left officers with injuries including a broken nose and concussion.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, from Rochdale, has been jailed for three and a half years after assaulting two female police officers, PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook, and a Starbucks customer at Manchester Airport in July 2024. The officers sustained injuries, with Ward suffering a broken nose.
A retrial jury in Liverpool Crown Court failed to reach verdicts on allegations that brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz (21) and Muhammad Amaad (26) assaulted Greater Manchester PC Zachary Marsden at Manchester Airport on 23 July 2024, leading to their discharge; the case is adjourned until 29 May for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide on a potential third trial.
Twenty-two people from MV Hondius cruise spend first day isolating in self-contained flats in MerseysideWhat is hantavirus?Passengers evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first day at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife.A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the MV Hondius passengers from the Canary Islands to Manchester airport on Sunday evening. The evacuation of passengers of all nationalities will be completed on Monday, with flights arriving from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain’s health minister has said. Continue reading...
Twenty-two people from MV Hondius cruise spend first day isolating in self-contained flats in MerseysideWhat is hantavirus?Passengers evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first day at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife.A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the MV Hondius passengers from the Canary Islands to Manchester airport on Sunday evening. The evacuation of passengers of all nationalities will be completed on Monday, with flights arriving from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain’s health minister has said. Continue reading...
Twenty-two people from MV Hondius cruise spend first day isolating in self-contained flats in MerseysideWhat is hantavirus?Passengers evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first day at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife.A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the MV Hondius passengers from the Canary Islands to Manchester airport on Sunday evening. The evacuation of passengers of all nationalities will be completed on Monday, with flights arriving from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain’s health minister has said. Continue reading...
Twenty people from MV Hondius cruise spend first day living in self-contained flats in MerseysidePassengers evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first day at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife.A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the MV Hondius passengers from the Canary Islands to Manchester airport on Sunday evening. The evacuation of passengers of all nationalities will be completed on Monday, with flights arriving from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain’s health minister has said. Continue reading...
Manchester Airport ranked worst in the UK for flight delays, with an average delay of 19.5 minutes in 2025, per CAA data analysis, citing external factors like European air traffic control strikes and weather.
