Ryanair Strike
ANGRY Ryanair passengers are taking to social media and complaining that flights are being cancelled as little as two hours before take off today as the ‘biggest ever strike’ hits the budget Irish airline.
Around 250 flights and more than 30,000 passengers are expected to be hit, including some between the UK and Spain, as cabin crew and pilots strike across five countries.
The low-cost airline said all affected customers had been sent emails text messages, although no lists of cancelled flights have been made public.
But this morning flyers are claiming that they have only learned of cancellations two hours before take off.
Body
POLICE recovered a corpse from a beach in Andalucia yesterday morning.
The body was reported by a member of the public on the Las Salinas beach in Roquetas de Mar in the province of Almeria.
Guardia Civil officers are investigating the death and no theories have been ruled out.
Visit
The UK’s HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid visited Spain and Germany this week where he stressed the need for continued co-operation with European partners on security issues.
Speaking in Madrid he told an audience of journalists and parliamentarians that the UK and Spain had a shared history of fighting terrorism and that it needs to be as strong and as effective once the UK leaves the EU.
In a meeting with his Spanish counterpart Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, they both agreed that the close relationship between the countries must continue.
After the visit’s he said this week showed once more how closely our countries work together to keep our citizens safe.
Latest Figures
Pessimism in France and Spain dragged down economic sentiment across the eurozone, according to official statistics published yesterday, as a drop in confidence among consumers and industry outweighed a more optimistic outlook from the retail trade and construction sector.
The economic sentiment indicator fell 0.7 points this month, flash data from the European Commission showed.
The data is the latest of recent days to point to a divergence in attitudes between consumers in the eurozone’s two largest economies.
Benidorm (Again)
Holidaymakers in Benidorm have been filmed floating down flooded streets on lilos after the resort was hit by torrential rain this week.
They were seen running and jumping onto their inflatables and splashing around in puddles in the middle of the road as they refused to let the weather ruin their holiday.
Some tourists were even spotted using an upside-down table as a makeshift surfboard.
And despite weather warnings the people in the video were seen wearing nothing but a pair of shorts and flip-flops.
Some wore bright fluorescent swimwear as they floated across pedestrian crossings on their lilos, with vehicles having to carefully dodge around them.