This is an airport like no other – impressive enough to be a tourist attraction. So beautiful it’s worthy of a postcard. So spacious it should perhaps carry a trigger warning for agoraphobics.
Which makes the experience of being a passenger in Abu Dhabi’s new Zayed International Airport – comprising one single Terminal A – an utterly surreal one.
There’s no hassle, no jostling, no general sense of despair. No one likes a delay but here it means the chance
It was the picture that perfectly captured the bleak state of NHS dentistry in 2024. Hundreds of desperate people standing in a queue that snaked into the distance, all clinging to the hope they might finally get the care they urgently needed.
The farce at the newly opened St Paul’s Dental Practice in Bristol – where an estimated 1,500 patients were registered for NHS treatment in just two days – highlighted the extent of the crisis that the sector currently
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It names the top 10 least-visited countries around the world, as revealed by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation 2023 report.
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Holidaymakers trying to travel through the very busy port of Dover have faced traffic delays and bottlenecks, bosses there said.
Long lines of vehicles were seen snaking back from the port to the seaside town yesterday, with authorities warning of wait times of at least 90 minutes for cars and coaches at the border checks.
But some ferry passengers said they had waited in traffic for hours at the port, missing their departure time.
Bob McKay, 36, from Faversham, Kent,
‘Look, it’s where the princesses live!’ my five-year-old daughter gasps, wide-eyed and grinning from ear to ear as she excitedly breaks into a run.
We really can’t miss the 189ft-high pretty pink, blue and golden turrets of the moat-surrounded Cinderella-inspired castle emblazoned with a huge ’50’, as we make our way into Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.
Even as adults, the iconic structure that’s embedded in a thousand childhood memories is an impressive sight to behold – a symbol of
Tech fans around the world set up camp outside Apple Stores in the early hours of this morning to be the first to get their hands on the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro.
The flagship device has been officially released today, causing large queues to form before major shops opened in Singapore, Thailand and Japan.
However no such lines were found in the UK, as Apple is only allowing buyers who have pre-ordered their device to pick it up
A holidaymaker was branded ‘selfish’ after she bragged about skipping long airport queues by pretending to have a broken foot.
Charlotte Rees, 32, slipped on a protective boot to trick staff as she flew from Manchester to Majorca with her fiancé Paul Brown, 33.
The small business owner was ushered to the front of the lengthy check-in and security queues then ditched the boot in the bathroom once she was through to departures.
Charlotte Rees, 32, slipped on a protective
Families have been forced to sleep on the floor of airports as Britain’s travel hell continued today, with little sign of abatement.
In Stansted the combination of delays and queues provided nightmare conditions that saw some try and get rest on the floor.
Elsewhere jam-packed outdoor lines formed outside Bristol’s terminals from 4am under the sky as the day dawned.
And 140 miles away at Gatwick passengers said they too were enduring ‘long and snaking’ queues just to reach their
Britons’ half-term getaways have been blighted by chaos at UK airports, with carrier easyJet cancelling more than 200 flights over the next 10 days.
Passengers have blasted the service at Manchester Airport as ‘carnage’ while a traveller at Gatwick Airport described a five-hour delay before boarding an Easyjet flight – only for it then to be cancelled.
Rob Scott posted online: ‘Carnage at Manchester Airport this morning. Terminal two [is] rammed with people, huge queues, big delays setting off due
The number of people in the queue for routine NHS treatment in England has soared to another high and record numbers are facing ‘frightening waits’ in A&E.
As the crisis in the health service deepens, official statistics show one in nine people (6.4million) were waiting for elective operations such as hip and knee replacements and cataracts surgery by March — up from the 6.18m stuck in February.
There are now 306,000 who have been waiting for more than a year
