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Drunk man kicked off his own honeymoon flight after telling the captain to 'f*** off'A man who refused to stop vaping on a flight to his honeymoon was kicked off the plane after he told the captain to ‘f*** off’.Christopher Thomson, 43, and his newlywed wife were travelling to Santorini when staff spotted vape smoke coming from his seat prior to take off from Manchester Airport.He was asked to stop vaping but continued, and so the captain deemed him a ‘safety risk’. But, when the captain tried to speak to Thomson, from Warrington, he was told to ‘f*** off’.The flight was cancelled due to the delay caused and Thomson was arrested. As he was led in handcuffs into a waiting police van, he shouted for his wife to film the incident and to ‘get a lawyer’.Thomson, of Parkland Close, Appleton, was handed 10 weeks imprisonment which was suspended for a year, and was ordered to complete 180 hours unpaid work. He must also pay £510 court costs.
QuoteDrunk man kicked off his own honeymoon flight after telling the captain to 'f*** off'he shouted for his wife to film the incident and to ‘get a lawyer’.Thomson, of Parkland Close, Appleton, was handed 10 weeks imprisonment which was suspended for a year, and was ordered to complete 180 hours unpaid work. He must also pay £510 court costs.https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/drunk-man-kicked-honeymoon-flight-28532980"he shouted for his wife to film the incident and to ‘get a lawyer’." A divorce lawyer, presumably.
Drunk man kicked off his own honeymoon flight after telling the captain to 'f*** off'he shouted for his wife to film the incident and to ‘get a lawyer’.Thomson, of Parkland Close, Appleton, was handed 10 weeks imprisonment which was suspended for a year, and was ordered to complete 180 hours unpaid work. He must also pay £510 court costs.
Post Office campaigner Alan Bates to reject ‘offensive’ compensation offerOne of the leading Post Office Horizon scandal campaigners has said he will reject an offer of compensation from the government, which he says is "around a sixth" of what he asked for.Alan Bates, whose two-decade fight inspired the ITV series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, told ITV News the offer was “paltry".Speaking to ITV News, Mr Bates said: "It’s a paltry offer. I’m frustrated by the insincerity of the Post Office and how long it’s taking to go through the compensation process."It just goes on and on and on."
EasyJet to introduce 'grans go free' places on holidays to EuropeAn airline is offering families the chance to bring their grans or grandpas along for free in a new deal. EasyJet is launching ‘Grans Go Free’ in a twist on the usual ‘Kids Go Free’ offer to destinations including Spain, Greece and Italy..In the offer, seniors will be able to travel free of charge on family bookings to several European destinations, allowing families to spend more quality time together. It comes after new research revealed 51 per cent of families have never holidayed with their grandparents abroad.Under the offer one grandparent on the trip will travel free of charge.Limited spaces for Grans Go Free are on offer. To qualify, the grandparent must be travelling as part of a family booking with at least one child. Proof of age and relation will be taken upon arrival at the hotel in the destination. For more information on the deal and to book, visit the easyJet website here.
Big Price Increases Bring Consumer Woes, Bonanza for Greek SupermarketsWith the cost of many items soaring – even doubling – Greek supermarkets are raking in big profits even as the New Democracy government tries to stop profiteering.NielsenIQ data showed food prices in Greece increased by 9 percent overall but items like Extra Virgin Olive Oil and milk price hikes far exceeded that, as have the costs of many other essential items and sales rose 0.4 percentThe government has issued fines against multinationals and some companies for overcharging and supermarket inspections are ongoing but prices generally remain higher than a year ago.
Fujitsu employees 'dragged over coals' if they admitted issues with Post Office softwareA former employee at a Fujitsu call centre who dealt with queries from sub-postmasters about the Horizon system told ITV News that staff would have been "dragged over the coals" if they admitted the software had problems.Nate Orrow worked at Fujitsu's Stevenage call centre for two years, between 2010 and 2012.Speaking exclusively to ITV News, he said that when sub-postmasters were required to balance their accounts, the call centre would be "back to back for hours" with queries."There was no respite from the queueing calls", he said."The bulk of it was account discrepancies," Mr Orrow added."More often than not it was a mystery. The most you could do was try to empathise with them, comfort them and say you'd escalate it up."It was difficult talking to people, some of the people were pretty desperate."Mr Orrow said call centre staff regularly discussed the fact that Horizon "was obviously a dreadful piece of software" - though they weren't certain of its specific faults."We were under no illusion that the system wasn't good. We hated supporting it. It was a bad piece of software", he said.But Mr Orrow alleged that staff would be punished for letting on to sub-postmasters that there were problems with the system.
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