Heathrow and Gatwick flight cancellations leave ‘40,000 stranded’ after thunderstorms

The heatwave has turned into stormy weather, causing chaos at London airports (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Severe thunderstorms have caused chaos at Britain’s busiest airports, delaying more than 900 flights and forcing dozens of cancellations.

More than 474 flights at London Heathrow and 439 at Gatwick were delayed, with some disruptions lasting for up to 11 hours, according to flight…

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Gatwick sinkholes leave hundreds of holidaymakers stranded with all London trains cancelled

Light shines through a railway bridge outside Purley, wreaking havoc at Gatwick (Picture: Southern Rail)

Desperate holidaymakers have been queuing outside Gatwick Airport for hours after sinkholes near a railway bridge cancelled all trains to London.

Network Rail engineers discovered a ‘number of sinkholes’ close to a bridge during planned engineering work outside Purley.

Claiming it was ‘for…

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Katie Price shares Lee Andrews marriage update after hinting relationship is ‘over’

Katie Price has just returned to the UK after visiting her husband in prison in Dubai (Picture: Getty/@wesleeeandrews)

The twists and turns in Katie Price’s ongoing relationship saga with her jailbound husband Lee Andrews just keep on coming.

After flying out to Dubai to reunite with her spouse of five months just days ago, in a bid to straighten things out and free him from prison, it seemed…

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Why is everyone talking about Sir Mo Farah racing Luke Littler – and who really would win?

We know Sir Mo can finish a 10,000m race well, but what are the man’s nine-dart finishes like? (Picture: Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Have you ever sat on a particularly long train ride somewhere? Or waited in a queue for five hours to get back through passport control at Gatwick Airport? Or perhaps you’re the sort of person who likes to talk to strangers in pubs. If any of these apply to you, then…

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EasyJet passengers say they’re being ‘set up to fail’ by new hand luggage trial

EasyJet has been trialling a new style of hand luggage sizers (Picture: Getty Images)

EasyJet passengers are divided over a new method for checking hand luggage dimensions at the boarding gate.

A passenger flying from London Gatwick claimed their cabin bag ‘fit perfectly’ in the airline’s standard sizing cage.

But when they arrived at the gate, staff ‘suddenly switched’ to a handheld sizer…

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