Richard Hammond and his spouse have introduced their break up after “28 wonderful years collectively”.

The 55-year-old TV presenter, finest identified for his position on motoring High Gear and The Grand Tour alongside former co-stars James Could and Jeremy Clarkson, married the newspaper columnist Amanda “Mindy” Hammond in 2002.

In a press release shared on-line on Thursday, the pair stated: “Slightly replace from us; this Christmas we have been collectively as a household and this 12 months we’ll nonetheless be a household however simply structured a bit in a different way.

“Our marriage is coming to finish, however we’ve had a tremendous 28 years collectively and two unbelievable daughters.”

“We’ll at all times be in one another’s lives and are happy with the household we created.

“We gained’t be commenting additional and sincerely hope that our privateness and that of our kids might be revered at the moment. With Love, Richard and Mindy.”

Amanda had been a pillar of assist to Hammond as he handled the aftermath of his near-fatal 2006 High Gear crash when he was injured whereas driving a jet-powered automotive at 288 mph. The incident briefly put him right into a coma and left him with severe head accidents, however he managed to make a full restoration and returned to the present in early 2007.

Talking in regards to the incident 16 years later, Hammond admitted in 2022 that his spouse screaming at him within the hospital is what woke him from the coma.

“In hospital, in intensive care, issues have been apparently not wanting superb, however I didn’t know, there was a whole lot of morphine floating round my system,” he stated in 2022. “I lastly woke and I shared with my spouse Mindy a dream I’d been having. A very, actually, actually vivid one, most likely, partly, on account of the morphine.

“And in my thoughts I’d been strolling these hills right here within the Lake District, overlooking Buttermere. I used to be having a stunning time strolling alongside and steadily I received a rising sense of you recognize when you recognize you’re in hassle.”

“(It) grew and grew till ultimately in my dream I turned again, I didn’t stroll again round this tree and stick with it after which I woke.”

open picture in gallery

After waking up and telling his spouse about his dream, she advised him that on the identical time, she had been “shouting and screaming” at him, saying ,“Don’t you dare die!”

”That’s once I turned again from this tree in my dream and that’s once I woke,” stated Hammond. “My final thought took me someplace I like and someplace I’m joyful. So I’m not terrified of this outdated tree. I go it repeatedly, most months I come up right here and stroll, and each time I go it, I do really feel comforted.”

Hammond and his spouse share two daughters, Izzy, 24, and Willow, 22.

The motor journalist hosts the podcast Who We Are Now together with his daughter Izzy, who works alongside her dad at his storage.

Hammond discovered fame on native radio earlier than touchdown a task on High Gear in 2002, and went on to current The Grand Tour on Amazon. Hammond has additionally fronted gameshows Brainiac and Complete Wipeout.

TV presenter Richard Hammond and his spouse have introduced they’re splitting up after an “wonderful 28 years collectively”.

The 55-year-old, finest identified for internet hosting motoring exhibits Prime Gear and The Grand Tour, tied the knot with newspaper columnist Amanda “Mindy” Hammond, 59, in 2002.

In an announcement on Thursday, the pair mentioned their household spent Christmas collectively however will go into the brand new yr “a bit otherwise”.

“Slightly replace from us; this Christmas we had been collectively as a household and this yr we are going to nonetheless be a household however simply structured a bit otherwise,” the assertion posted to X mentioned.

“Our marriage is coming to finish, however we have had an incredible 28 years collectively and two unimaginable daughters.

“We are going to at all times be in one another’s lives and are happy with the household we created.

“We can’t be commenting additional and sincerely hope that our privateness and that of our kids will probably be revered at the moment. With Love, Richard and Mindy.”

The couple have two daughters, Izzy, 24, and Willow, 22.

Collectively along with his eldest daughter, Hammond hosts the podcast Who We Are Now With Izzy & Richard, which returns for a 3rd collection this yr.

His household have additionally appeared on his Discovery+ collection Richard Hammond’s Workshop, about him beginning a restoration enterprise in Herefordshire.

Hammond was supported by his spouse in 2006 following a high-speed crash on Prime Gear which left him with severe accidents.

He then appeared alongside colleagues Jeremy Clarkson and James Could for the ultimate episode of Amazon Prime present The Grand Tour, on September 13 final yr, which noticed the trio journey throughout Zimbabwe.

Graham Potter has checked in at a troubled West Ham with the message that solely a united strategy will hold them afloat in a “ruthless” Premier League.

Weeks of hypothesis over Julen Lopetegui’s future ended on Wednesday together with his alternative by Potter, who returns to administration after 21 months away. Potter was sacked by Chelsea in April 2023 and joins what’s, on the face of issues, a equally turbulent West Ham atmosphere. The technical director, Tim Steidten, who would in concept be anticipated to work intently with Potter, may go away amid unhappiness about his switch document and fraught relationships with earlier managers.

Steidten fell out with Lopetegui and David Moyes throughout a interval wherein West Ham have did not kick on. Potter was requested at his unveiling on Thursday whether or not he would have the ability to kind a working relationship with the German and responded with a extra basic plea for concord.

“Sure, completely,” he stated. “I met all people on the board. Actually, actually constructive. I’ve solely been right here just a few hours so that you’ve obtained to provide me a little bit of time to develop relationships. However I can solely say from the final 12, 13 years of my profession, that’s what I’ve tried to do in all places I’ve gone. It’s essential we have now that togetherness, that alignment, that we’re getting in the identical route. As quickly as you begin going off in several methods, the Premier League is ruthless. So the extra collectively we’re, the extra aligned we’re, the higher.”

Main from the entrance with a candid strategy will, he feels, deliver everybody on to the identical web page. “There needs to be readability from me about how the crew needs to play: how does that present the route for everyone round to make choices, whether or not it’s recruitment or no matter,” he stated. “Then it’s about having open, respectful dialogue. Nobody’s obtained all of the solutions, nobody is aware of the whole lot.

“This can be a membership that’s had latest success. I’m right here now, so there’s a disappointment that’s been latest however there’s quite a lot of good right here, there’s quite a lot of constructive right here.”

Potter enthused that his comeback “seems like Christmas Day”, though among the presents left on the 14th-placed membership’s coaching floor is probably not to his liking. West Ham should not out of the relegation image and a disjointed squad, pockmarked with some expensively assembled flops, may do with surgical procedure this month. He expects assets to be obtainable if the proper additions turn into inside attain in a notoriously difficult window.

“The problem is to make some fast choices and be taught round what we have now,” he stated. “The January window shouldn’t be essentially the most simple, it may be sophisticated. My focus is on the crew that we’ve obtained. After which on the identical time, all the time concentrate on alternatives that may come.”

The trajectory of Potter’s profession, which ignited in a exceptional tenure at Östersund earlier than spectacular spells at Swansea and Brighton, flatlined badly when he left Chelsea six months after his appointment. He accepts there shall be sceptics to win over.

“After I hearken to Pep Guardiola, he says he’s obtained one thing to show,” he stated. “If he’s obtained one thing to show then all of us have, it’s the fact.

“I’m snug in my very own pores and skin, I’m snug with who I’m and what I’ve accomplished. Clearly nobody’s good. Life is about taking the successes, accepting the setbacks and accepting the defeats. Accepting the errors, coping with it and making you stronger. I feel I’m a greater particular person now for the expertise [at Chelsea], a greater coach for the expertise and effectively rested.”

Potter was not in need of affords to chop quick his prolonged break however defined it had been essential to “step again and see what’s taking place, analyse your individual pondering, your individual ideas”. He stated: “I’ve realized that I’m fairly competent, to be sincere. I’ve realized to not fear an excessive amount of about what folks from the skin consider me.” His first probability to kind opinions at West Ham will arrive on Friday night once they contest an FA Cup third-round tie at Aston Villa.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday would not rule out exercising army or financial coercion to additional his objective of bringing each Greenland and the Panama Canal underneath U.S. management, as his son, Donald Trump Jr., is in Greenland amid Trump’s push to accumulate the autonomous territory of Denmark. 

“I am unable to guarantee you, you are speaking about Panama and Greenland,” Trump advised reporters throughout a press convention at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. “No, I am unable to guarantee you on both of these two. However I can say this — we want them for financial safety.”

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rejected Trump’s designs on Greenland however stated she’d proceed to welcome American curiosity and funding, in gentle of Trump Jr.’s go to.

“I, after all, hope that Trump Jr. may have the chance to see Greenland and go to the magnificent nation,” Frederiksen stated in a TV interview Tuesday. “However additionally it is vital to carry quick that the way forward for Greenland is outlined by the Greenlanders, not by the remainder of us.”

“It’s their nation that we’re speaking about right here, and it’s Greenland that, in my eyes, can decide and outline Greenland’s future,” she stated. Frederiksen nonetheless considers the U.S. a beneficial ally as Moscow and Beijing enhance their cooperation.

“I might a lot moderately have American funding and American curiosity than I would like Russian or Chinese language,” she stated. “Then again, I wish to encourage everybody to respect that the Greenlanders are a folks, they’re a inhabitants,” Frederiksen stated. “It’s their nation that’s at stake right here.”

Trump Jr. arrived Tuesday in Greenland on his father’s “Trump Power One” airplane, weeks after his father once more expressed a want for the U.S. to achieve management of the autonomous Danish territory. The go to comes only a day after Trump prompt the folks of the huge area had been “MAGA,” in a put up on social media.

“Simply right here as vacationers,” Trump Jr. advised journalists as he walked into the airport in Greenland’s capital metropolis of Nuuk on Tuesday. “We have been speaking about going for a whereas. I used to be truly speculated to be right here final spring for a few of the stuff I do in my free time, however simply actually excited to be right here. Superior nation.”

He was shortly requested about his father, who’s acknowledged a want to make Greenland a part of the U.S., however he replied solely to say that the quickly to be second-term president, “says hi there.” 

“We had been speaking to him yesterday, so he says hi there to everybody in Greenland,” stated Trump Jr.

Greenland, which has a inhabitants of solely about 57,000, is a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. It has oil, pure gasoline and mineral sources, however its financial system is reliant on subsidies from Denmark and from fishing.

Nonetheless, Trump on Tuesday expressed doubt about Denmark’s management of Greenland, regardless of Greenland’s standing as an autonomous territory. 

“No person even is aware of if they’ve any proper, title or curiosity,” Trump stated, inaccurately, of Denmark and Greenland. 

“The go to of Donald Trump Jr. is a non-public go to and that’s being revered by Naalakkersuisut — the Authorities of Greenland. Subsequently, there may also not be reactions to the go to,” Mininnguaq Kleist, Greenland’s everlasting secretary for the Ministry of International Affairs, advised CBS Information forward of his arrival on Tuesday. “Our nation is open for visits, and guests are welcome in our lovely nation.”

Reuters, citing a supply conversant in the journey, stated Trump Jr. was planning to shoot content material for a podcast, and that he would solely be visiting for at some point.  

On Monday, President-elect Trump stated in a social media put up that he was, “listening to that the folks of Greenland are ‘MAGA.’ My son, Don Jr, and numerous representatives, shall be touring there to go to a few of the most opulent areas and sights. Greenland is an unbelievable place, and the folks will profit tremendously if, and when, it turns into a part of our Nation. We are going to shield it, and cherish it, from a really vicious exterior World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”

Trump had expressed curiosity in shopping for Greenland throughout his first time period in workplace, although the thought was shortly rebuffed by Danish authorities. 

Two weeks in the past, Trump stated on social media that, “for functions of Nationwide Safety and Freedom all through the World, the USA of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

Greenland’s authorities has twice rebuffed assertions of curiosity within the territory by Trump, with Prime Minister Mute Egede saying simply earlier than Christmas that “Greenland is ours. We aren’t on the market and can by no means be on the market.”

Final week, Egede gave a New Yr’s speech pushing for Greenland to take away “the shackles of colonialism” and achieve full independence from Denmark. 

“It’s about time that we ourselves take a step and form our future, additionally with regard to who we’ll cooperate carefully with, and who our buying and selling companions shall be,” Egede stated.

One Greenlandic lawmaker in Denmark’s parliament, Aaja Chemnitz, stated Trump’s curiosity needs to be dismissed, Reuters reported.

“I do not need to be a pawn in Trump’s sizzling goals of increasing his empire to incorporate our nation,” Chemnitz stated.

Peterborough supervisor Darren Ferguson stated an unnamed Everton participant “had a pop” at him after he denied Tyler Younger the chance to return on as an alternative towards his father Ashley in Thursday’s FA Cup third spherical match.

Whereas former England worldwide Ashley got here off the bench within the second half for Everton, Tyler was an unused sub within the sport at Goodison Park. Everton received 2-0 towards the third-division crew.

“I’ve acquired to do what’s finest for my crew and we’re not a charity case,” Ferguson stated. “As a lot as I needed Tyler to go on along with his dad, one among their gamers had a little bit of a pop at me, which is bang out of order.”

Ferguson used his fifth and ultimate substitute within the 88th minute with Peterborough 1-0 down and chasing an equalizer.

“I’ve acquired to do what’s finest for our crew and at that time at 1-0 I’m making an attempt to get a consequence,” he stated.

When each Youngs had been named as substitutes for the match it saved alive the prospect of a memorable showdown between father and son in soccer’s oldest knockout competitors. However with Peterborough trailing 1-0 till added time, Ferguson opted towards calling for Tyler, who has solely made one senior look for the membership.

Everton received 2-0 by way of targets from Beto and Iliman Ndiaye.

Ashley Younger received the FA Cup in 2016 with Manchester United in addition to league titles in England and Italy. However he stated earlier than the match that the possibility to share the sector along with his son could be larger than any trophy he has lifted.

“I’ve stated it for (a) quite a few quantity of years that if there was a chance that we was capable of play with one another or play towards one another, it tops the whole lot I’ve achieved in my profession,” he instructed Everton’s web site.

The pair spoke on the sector earlier than kickoff and Ashley embraced his son after the ultimate whistle.

Midfielder Tyler hung out at Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers and MK Dons earlier than becoming a member of third-division Peterborough final yr.

He made his debut for the membership as an alternative in October.

Ashley is within the latter phases of a profession that has seen him characterize England on the World Cup and play for storied golf equipment resembling United, Inter Milan and Aston Villa.

Amongst different cases of fathers and sons in the identical sport, World Cup winner Rivaldo performed and scored in the identical sport as his son Rivaldinho in a Brazilian second-division match in 2015.

In October, LeBron and Bronny James turn into the primary father and son to play collectively within the NBA.

In 1990, Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey Sr. hit back-to-back residence runs in Main League Baseball.

___

James Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson

___

AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

No father and son have performed towards one another in 154 years of the FA Cup, however all that would change at Goodison Park tonight when Everton host Peterborough.

Premier League veteran Ashley Younger, 39, would possibly go head-to-head along with his 18-year-old son Tyler and the distinction of their careers couldn’t be starker.

Whereas Tyler is but to make his League debut for the Posh, father Ashley has racked up in extra of 600 profession appearances, making his first group debut almost two years earlier than his son was even born.

Whereas Younger Snr is famed for his versatility, younger Tyler, who made his senior debut in its place within the 2-0 EFL Trophy defeat of Stevenage, is an lively midfielder with a fame for choosing a cross and the power to make potent runs past the strikers.

Together with his father established as a stalwart of the Premier League and having additionally made 39 appearances for his nation, Tyler started soccer life within the Arsenal Academy earlier than switching to Milton Keynes Dons as a teenager.

He then joined QPR however the Hoops let him go final summer season due to monetary cutbacks, which means Peterborough swooped to accumulate his providers.

“Tyler will likely be on the bench although I can’t assure he’s going to get on,” Posh supervisor Darren Ferguson confirmed on Wednesday.

“After we signed him, the primary couple of months he was excellent. He got here on in a first-team sport and did very effectively. He had a little bit little bit of a dip, as younger gamers do, however he’s obtained expertise.

“He couldn’t have a greater position mannequin than his dad, nonetheless taking part in at 40ish. To try this, it’s a must to be at it day-after-day.”

For Younger Sr, drawing Peterborough has given him the chance to get pleasure from a profession excessive on the superior age of 39.

He mentioned: “I noticed that we’d been drawn towards Peterborough and like I mentioned for years, if there was any manner that we might play towards one another or play with one another, it could be the head of my profession. It could eclipse all the pieces I’ve executed.”

Speaking concerning the likelihood to face his dad, Tyler mentioned: “It means rather a lot, even to be taking part in towards my dad, however even to play within the FA Cup, which has obtained a lot historical past.

He joked: “If I used to be to nutmeg my dad he in all probability wouldn’t even say I used to be allowed again in the home.”

As regular father Ashley, ever the hardened skilled, lower by way of the sentimentality with the final phrase: “He’s 18 years outdated, he’s an grownup, he’s going to should take care of himself on the pitch. If there’s a sort out there, whether or not it’s me or another person, it’s simply what occurs.”

Donald Trump Jr has arrived in Greenland, weeks after his father mentioned he wished the US to take management of the autonomous Danish territory.

Forward of his go to, Trump Jr mentioned he was embarking on a “private day-trip” and had no conferences deliberate with authorities officers.

President-elect Donald Trump not too long ago revived an argument he ignited final month when he mentioned “possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for the US. “We’re not on the market,” the island’s prime minister responded on the time.

Requested on Tuesday whether or not he may rule out utilizing army or financial power on the matter, Trump mentioned he couldn’t.

With a inhabitants of 57,000, Greenland has wide-ranging autonomy – however its financial system is essentially depending on subsidies from Copenhagen and it stays a part of the dominion of Denmark.

Throughout his first time period as president, Donald Trump expressed an curiosity in shopping for the Arctic island. He was rebuffed then, as he has been now.

When requested about Trump Jr’s go to to Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen informed Danish TV that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders” and that solely the native inhabitants may decide their future.

She agreed that “Greenland isn’t on the market”, however harassed Denmark wanted very shut co-operation with the US, an in depth Nato ally.

Greenland’s prime minister had been on account of meet King Frederik in Copenhagen on Wednesday, however the assembly was postponed due to what Egede known as “calendar gymnastics”. Danish stories mentioned the prime minister was nonetheless on account of journey to Copenhagen on Tuesday.

The Danish authorities’s response to Trump Jr’s go to has annoyed a number of opposition politicians in Copenhagen.

Conservative MP Rasmus Jarlov posted on social media in English that “this degree of disrespect from the approaching US president in the direction of very, very loyal allies and associates is record-setting”.

Following his son’s arrival in Nuuk, President-elect Trump mentioned on his Fact Social platform that “the reception has been nice”. One other publish included a choice of photos exhibiting Trump Jr standing beside folks sporting purple Make America Nice Once more hats.

Trump mentioned Greenland “and the Free World, want security, safety, energy, and peace!”

“Make Greenland nice once more!” he added.

Earlier than leaving on board his father’s non-public jet, nicknamed Trump Drive One, 47-year-old Trump Jr mentioned on his podcast Triggered: “No, I’m not shopping for Greenland” – though he mentioned he did like it there.

The president-elect’s eldest son performed a key function in the course of the 2024 US election marketing campaign, ceaselessly showing at rallies and within the media.

One other of his father’s social media posts included a video that includes an unnamed Greenlander telling Trump to purchase Greenland and free it from “being colonised” by Denmark.

The id of the person within the clip was unclear, nonetheless Danish media reported that he had a jail conviction six years in the past for medication offences.

Greenland lies on the shortest route from North America to Europe, making it strategically vital for the US. It’s also dwelling to a big American house facility.

Hours after President-elect Trump repeated his curiosity in shopping for Greenland final month, the Danish authorities introduced a big increase in defence spending for the island. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen described the announcement’s timing as an “irony of destiny”.

On Monday, King Frederik X modified the royal coat of arms to extra prominently function representations of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Some have seen this as a rebuke to Trump, but it surely may additionally show controversial with Greenland’s separatist motion.

King Frederik used his New Yr’s deal with to say the Kingdom of Denmark was united “all the best way to Greenland”, including “we belong collectively”.

However Greenland’s prime minister used his personal New Yr’s speech to say that the island should break away from “the shackles of colonialism”.

Trump isn’t the primary US president to counsel shopping for Greenland. The thought was first mooted by the nation’s seventeenth president, Andrew Johnson, in the course of the 1860s.

Individually in current weeks, Trump has threatened to reassert management over the Panama Canal, one of many world’s most vital waterways. He has accused Panama of charging extreme charges for entry to it.

Panama’s president responded by saying “each sq. metre” of the canal and surrounding space belonged to his nation.

The Met Workplace has put yellow climate warnings over snow and ice in place from this afternoon overlaying a lot of the UK.

It had quite a lot of yellow warnings in place on Thursday throughout the nation, however most had been initially set to run out by 11am, with solely a snow and ice alert in Scotland remaining till midnight.

But it surely has now up to date its map to point out yellow ice warnings for a lot of the Midlands, North West England, Jap England, Wales and Northern Eire from 4pm on Thursday till 10am on Friday, whereas the snow and ice warning for Scotland has been prolonged to 10am on Friday.

A separate yellow warning for ice is in pressure from 3am on Friday till 11am, overlaying South West England and components of South Wales.

It comes as giant swathes of the nation cope with disruption attributable to the freezing climate, with temperatures anticipated to fall as little as -16C on Thursday night time each within the northeast of England and Scotland, the Met Workplace has mentioned.

Manchester Airport has warned passengers of delays after quickly closing its runways on account of “important ranges of snow”.

In an announcement on Thursday morning, the airport mentioned: “Our runways are quickly closed on account of important ranges of snow, as our groups work arduous to clear them as shortly as potential.”

The airport introduced its runways had reopened at 10am, however warned “because of the sooner closure, some departures and arrivals should expertise delays”.

“The security of our passengers stays our prime precedence. Thanks on your understanding and endurance,” it added.

The A30 in Cornwall was closed westbound between the A3047 junctions Avers and Tolvaddon on Thursday morning following a a number of automobile collision, in line with Nationwide Highways, after an amber warning for snow and ice was in place yesterday.

It mentioned at 8.45am that emergency providers had been on the scene whereas site visitors constructed on the roads.

Devon and Cornwall Police and Devon County Council Highways had earlier warned of roads closing and motorists being stationary for “lengthy durations of time” in a joint assertion.

Snow ploughs turned caught in queues of site visitors attributable to “minor incidents”, the assertion added.

The entire warnings in place throughout the nation are yellow, which means there’s a hazard of harm from slips and falls and a few disruption to journey anticipated.

A yellow warning for snow and ice is in place for the next areas from 4pm on Thursday to 10am on Friday:

• East Midlands
• North West England
• Northern Eire
• Wales
• West Midlands

Get the forecast on your space

Different yellow warnings which lined a lot of the nation on Thursday morning have now expired.

They included a warning for snow and ice affecting Cornwall, a lot of Wales and components of northwest England till 11am, an ice warning for components of southern England and south-east Wales till 10.30am and a fog warning for Northern Eire till 9am.

Journey disruption to highway and rail providers are doubtless on Thursday within the warning areas, in addition to the potential for accidents in icy locations, the forecaster mentioned.

As icy situations persist, motorists are being urged to stay to main roads which are most probably to have been gritted.

Automotive insurer RAC mentioned it has seen the best ranges of demand for rescues in a three-day interval since December 2022.

Runways at Manchester Airport have re-opened, however passengers have been warned to anticipate delays.

The airport introduced simply after 9am this morning that it had suspended flights and arrivals to clear snow on its runways.

However an hour later it has confirmed that each runways are actually open after snow ploughs managed to clear in a single day and early morning snowfall.

The airport mentioned; “Our runways are actually open, however because of the sooner closure, some departures and arrivals should still expertise delays.

“Please verify together with your airline for the most recent flight data and permit further time in your journey right now.

“We want to thank our groups for his or her arduous work in getting the runways operational once more.

“The protection of our passengers stays our high precedence. Thanks in your understanding and endurance.”

Snow fell throughout the North West in a single day and the area is topic to a present climate warning.

A supply instructed TheBusinessDesk that their flight into Manchester Airport, round 8am yesterday, circled over the North West thrice earlier than lastly touchdown, with vital ranges of snow seen on the positioning.

Different stories this morning mentioned data boards within the airport had been describing departing flights ‘Holding’ because the climate took an icy grip on providers.

Temperatures throughout Manchester are at present -4C and are solely anticipated to enhance to 0C by 2pm earlier than dropping to -1C at 4pm.

Naomi Leach, Deputy Editor of Which? Journey, mentioned: “Passengers affected by the runway closures at Manchester Airport gained’t be eligible for compensation because the circumstances are past any airways’ management, nonetheless carriers do have an ongoing obligation of care to these impacted.

“For flights delayed by greater than two hours, this might embrace help resembling offering food and drinks, often provided as meal vouchers, and even in a single day lodging if it turns into vital.

“In case your flight is cancelled, you even have the selection of being refunded or rerouted on the subsequent accessible flight. We’d usually advocate the latter, as then your airline should get you to your vacation spot as quickly as doable – together with with a rival provider, if vital.”

She added: “Airways can generally be reluctant to purchase you a ticket with their rivals, so don’t be afraid to remind them of this rule if one other flight might get you the place it is advisable go faster than they’ll.

“When you’re travelling right now, enable further time in your journey and verify together with your airline for the most recent updates earlier than setting off. It’s additionally value checking the phrases of your journey insurance coverage to see if you’ll be able to recoup some other bills you might incur because of the delays, resembling automobile rent or airport parking charges.”