I have always liked the phrase ‘have-a-go hero’. It sums up a certain type of person who can emerge from nowhere and coat their name with honour. One thinks, for instance, of John Smeaton, the baggage handler who was having a fag outside Glasgow airport in 2007 when two jihadis tried to blow the place
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It was Glasgow Airport s busiest day of the year and 4000 thousand passengers were preparing to fly off for their annual summer break. Shortly after 3pm on June 30, 2007, a dark green Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas canisters and petrol cans was driven towards the glass doors of the main entrance to the terminal building. Inside the vehicle that fateful Saturday was local hospital doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, and 28-year-old engineer Kafeel Ahmed.
READ MORE: The two occupants had turned the loaded vehicle into a massive mobile bomb which they hoped would explode killing passengers and their families as they were heading for their holiday flights.