Daily Mirror - 26.08.2019

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SCENE Car at petrol station

Spectacular

prang you ad

A RUNAWAY car crashed
through a hedge before
coming to rest beneath a
sign for Specsavers.
The Ford Fiesta’s rear
bumper was poking out
from the hedge with police
tape over it after the smash
at a Sainsburys petrol
station in Dunstable, Beds.
On the other side, its
mangled bonnet was
beneath the optician’s ad.
Tony Margiocchi saw
the aftermath as he filled
up and joked: “Should’ve
gone to Specsavers.”

FIRST JOB Ethel Price

Tesco ‘pride’

for Ethel, 100

ONE of Tesco’s earliest
living employees has
turned 100 – in the same
year as the retail giant.
Ethel Price was 15 when
she started working for
founder Sir Jack Cohen on
a London market stall in
1934, before following him
to a new corner shop.
The great-great-grand-
mother, now of Callington,
Cornwall, received several
gifts from her local store.
Son Brian said: “Mum’s
proud to have been
involved at the very start.”

PLANES

FAILING

Delays can leave people hun -

dreds of pounds out of pocket.

“The worst airlines and

airports need to ensure

they have the staff and

facilities to run an on-time

service.” Stansted’s record has

got worse every year for the

past five – with there now

being a 10% chance of a delay

of an hour or more.

Air traffic management

organisation Eurocontrol

told Which? that the carriers

were often to blame for delays.

The airlines which have

improved punctuality are Jet

and British Airways.

Ryanair said the figures “are

inflated”, easyJet and Thomas

Cook blamed factors beyond

their control – while Stansted

said it had improved in 2019.

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EIGHT out of 10 airlines in

the UK saw a rise in flights

being late by more than an

hour, a report reveals.

Those “unacceptable”

delays last year affected 17

million passengers.

The numbers of Ryanair,

Wizz Air and EasyJet flights

failing to take off on time

doubled from 2014 to 2018.

Thomas Cook’s 11.5% of

late services is the poorest

while Stansted is Britain’s

worst airport for delays, a

Which? study shows.

Naomi Leach, from the

consumer watchdog, said:

“This is unacceptable.

Airline delays hit 17 million UK passengers a year

BY NADEEM BADSHAH

FLIGHTS DELAYED BY 1HR OR MORE

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Airline 2014 2018

Thomas Cook 7% 11.5%

EasyJet 4.5% 8.7%

Thomson/TUI 5.5% 8.1%

Ryanair 3% 7.8%

Wizz Air 3% 6.2%

FlyBe 3.7% 6.2%

Jet2 5.9% 5.3%

BA 4.7% 4.5%

Aer Lingus 2.8% 3.2%

KLM 1.5% 2%

Coleen loses ring as

Wayne on the booze

GRIM Coleen Rooney is spotted

without her wedding ring just

days after husband Wayne

was seen with a mystery

woman following a seven-

hour booze bender.

The soccer star, 33,

partied in Vancouver, Canada,

last weekend following a match

playing for Washington DC.

Wayne recently told

Coleen, 33, he would quit

drinking following a string

of alcohol-related incidents.

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earlier this

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