and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
behind me, the line of travelers. you can see the line will sneak all the way around as people just have to be patient. be patient, you know you are traveling on the busiest travel day of the year. so that saying that i absolutely hate, pack your patience, really comes in handy this time of year. an official way that i like to decide how busy it is when i get to the airport as a frequent travelers over here by the clear in roman s line. a lot of people come in, they will see just how long the lines are and then say to themselves i am going to sign up for clear. when you see a big crowd, that is the way i look at it and say, okay, people are signing up for a clear last minute. that may mean that there will be a lot of people online. last holiday season you see a trifecta of issues, bad weather, covid-19, stick out for pilots and attendance. airport staffing shortages all across the country. this year, though, things seem to be moving a lot easier. i want you to hear from a couple of pas
airports, it s a similar story. a struggle to recruit staff and get them security cleared on time. have a look at this. this was the scene at manchester airport yesterday. look at that queue! and this was bristol over the weekend. imagine that if you re the kind of person who hates being packed into a crowd. and on top of airport staffing issues, we re also seeing the airlines cancel flights. now, andy was offered an alternative flight when his was called off, but that just didn t work with his booked accommodation. so that s it, his first family holiday in three years isn t happening. we said we d fly anywhere, we ll fly anywhere that you can get us to. no flights anywhere for three days. it s not just. .. i m sure that i ll get the money back for the holiday. it s also the fact that we spend 200 quid on a hotel last night, we spent 100 quid on a meal last night and probably another 150 quid this morning