for the foreseeable future until they tell us otherwise. we have no information from easyjet and we re just waiting on that information. they re among tens of thousands of british passengers who find themselves stranded overseas and either scrambling to rebook flights or find alternative routes home. it s been a really fun day. the original plan was to fly from dusseldorf to london heathrow. 0bviously, flights all cancelled everywhere. i am now on a trainjourney to belgium and then to luxembourg and then to france and then to calais and then a ferry and then dover and then london and then bed and a cup of tea. and there are warnings the disruption could last for days. many planes and their crews are now not where they should be. at one of the busiest times of the year, getting them back in place will take time. airports are advising passengers not to set off unless they ve confirmed their flights
if you re in the uk, you re probably familiar with the term ulez it stands for ultra low emission zone and in london it sjust been expanded from an area covering the city centre, to the whole of the capital. owners of the most polluting vehicles will have to pay £12.50 a day if they drive in the area. london now has the world s largest ultra low emission zone, but other countries have their own zones and they vary by vehicle type and emissions. italy has the most zones in europe some of them permanent, many seasonal. in france, drivers have to display a clean air sticker in their car to enter several cities. in paris they re planning a zero emission zone for 2030. in london, around 90% of cars are compliant and won t be affected by the charge. but the measure is highly controversial, with some londoners saying they haven t been given enough time or support to change their vehicles.
right thing to do. from today, 5 million more right thing to do. from today, 5 million more londoners - right thing to do. from today, 5 million more londoners will. right thing to do. from today, 5 million more londoners will be | million more londoners will be breathing clean air. and that is because of the evidence, the evidence of the consequences of air pollution. more than 4000 mature deaths a year in our city. it also children with stunted lungs forever caused by air pollution. a whole host of health issues for adults, from answer when micro asthma to cancer. but we also know the evidence shows that ulez works in central london. but also we saw a third fewer children being admitted to hospital with air pollution related illnesses when we expanded it to inner london. children going to 1400 schools are now breathing clean air. that is sadiq khan, the mayor of
and the channel, to arrive back in the uk at 103m on wednesday morning, a 17 hourjourney. also this lunchtime the government claims more than 100,000 new homes could be built because of changes in water pollution laws. from today, london s controversial ultra low emission zone expands to include almost the entire city. here we go. cheers. and every music fan s fantasy how this 16 year old was invited onto the stage to play drums with the killers. and coming up on bbc news: novak djokovic will replace carlos alcaraz as the men s world number one following his victory over frenchman alexandre muller in the first round of the us open.
on surrey police that they are widening the area, covering four areas in the country, and they are doing so, they say, because they have received new information from multiple sources. thank you very much indeed. from today, it will cost motorists with older vehicles more to drive anywhere in london as almost the whole of the capital becomes the world s largest ultra low emission zone. the original ulez area, marked here in green, only applied to the very centre of london when it came into force four years ago. then, in 2021, it spread to include inner london, which is the area inside the north and south circular ring roads. and today, ulez has expanded once more to cover outer london, meaning all 32 london boroughs will now be inside the ulez zone. the £12.50 charge will generally be payable on a petrol vehicle registered before 2005, or a diesel vehicle registered before september 2015.