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Cabin baggage confusion costs traveller her £11,000 Antarctic cruise
4 mn read “On Sunday 12 February 2023, I set off from home to Manchester airport for the holiday of a lifetime,” says Valerie Coleshaw. “By Monday 13 April I was home by breakfast, without luggage and in total despair.” Ms Coleshaw, from Bolton, lost her £11,000 Antarctic cruise with Hurtigruten (now HX) after cabin crew on a KLM flight from Manchester […]
Plane forced to make emergency landing after engine catches fire mid-flight
2 mn read A passenger plane operated by Indonesia’s national airlines made an emergency landing after the engine caught fire shortly after taking off. The Garuda Indonesia plane was travelling from an airport in the Indonesian city of Makassar to Madinah in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday with 468 passengers onboard when the incident happened. The Boeing 747-400 immediately returned to the airport of its […]
Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch to introduce UK’s first tourist tax
2 mn read Three popular seaside resorts in southern England are set to the be first destinations in the UK to introduce a ‘tourist tax’ for visitors. As part of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s Accommodation Business Improvement District (ABID), those staying overnight in the Dorset holiday hotspots will be charged £2 per room or unit, per night from 1 July – just ahead of the school summer holidays. […]
EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren to step down next year
2 mn read The boss of Britain’s biggest budget airline, easyJet, will leave in less than a year. Chief executive Johan Lundgren will have served seven years at the helm of easyJet as it endured its most turbulent times since its launch in 1995: the consequences of the UK leaving the European Union, followed by the Covid pandemic. Mr […]
Portable drops new song following release, reveals reason for debt
< 1 mn read Barely hours following the release of the embattled singer Portable, he releases a song detailing his car debt and why he refused to pay in due time. It would be recalled that the singer was forcefully arrested after trying to make a run for it when approached by the car dealer and police. Barely hours following his […]
UFC fighter Mateusz Rebecki shows off gruesome facial injury after TKO loss
< 1 mn read UFC lightweight Mateusz Rebecki took to Instagram on Sunday to show off his gruesome facial injuries after losing to Diego Ferreira. Rebecki faced Ferreira at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night in St Louis, Missouri, and the Pole in fact won the first round on all three judges’ scorecards. However, Brazil’s Ferreira won the second frame on every card, […]
Conor McGregor comeback breaks record with eye-watering sum – two months before fight
< 1 mn read Conor McGregor’s comeback has already broken the UFC’s live-gate record, according to Dana White – two months before fight night. McGregor will face Michael Chandler in the main event of UFC 303 on 29 June, marking the Irishman’s first fight in three years. In July 2021, McGregor suffered a broken leg in his second straight loss to Dustin Poirier. Yet fears […]
Vladimir Putin arrives in China to meet Xi Jinping as West watches with growing concern
5 mn read China has rolled out the red carpet to welcome Russian president Vladimir Putin for a potentially consequential and heavily symbolic state visit that will be closely watched in the West. Mr Putin’s second visit in less than a year comes as Western nations, led by the US, are putting pressure on China to stop throwing its economic and industrial weight […]
Nkechi Blessing exposes colleague who plan public beef for clout
< 1 mn read Controversial Nollywood actress, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has exposed her fellow celebrities who plan public beef to chase clout. The actress asserted that most celebrities engage in online feuds solely for the sole purpose of chasing clout. She recently spoke with Hip TV, where she stated that some musicians utilize online beef as a publicity ploy for new music or projects they […]
Mohbad’s widow, Wunmi, speaks after pathologist said cause of singer’s death could not be ascertained
2 mn read Mohbad’s widow, Wunmi Aloba has broken her silence following the pathologist’s statement that the cause of death of her husband was unknown. On September 12, 2023, Ilerioluwa Aloba popularly known as Mohbad passed away in suspicious circumstances. After Nigerians demanded justice, his body was exhumed on September 21 so that an autopsy could be performed to ascertain the cause of […]