wins this year s palme d or award at the cannes festival. there s been anger today over hours of delays at airports in the uk where passport e gates were not working. the disruption, which began on friday night, had been due to an it issue. the situation has now been resolved. in a statement, the home office said that following a technical border system fault, all e gates are now operating as normal. it went on to thank travellers who were impacted and staff for their work in resolving the issue. graham satchell has been looking at the impact on passengers. gatwick airport described by one passenger today as an utterjoke. these scenes were repeated at airports across the uk. this is manchester, where again there were huge queues for passport control. and at heathrow, arriving passengers were forced to wait more than three hours. we also had one passenger that fainted. this is wayne fenton at luton airport. already been in the queue now forabout 1.5 hours, in fact nearly two
hello. british tv presenter holly willoughby has reacted to phillip schofield s admission to a relationship with a younger employee, saying she is hurt. on friday, mr schofield resigned from itv saying he had lied to cover up the relationship, which he described as unwise, but not illegal . itv has said it investigated rumours of the relationship but both repeatedly denied it. our correspondent katherine da costa has the latest on holly willoughby s reaction. she has been responding to the news that philip schofield had had a younger man on the show, this morning, in 2020. in a statement on her instagram account, holly said, it has taken time to process yesterday s news. you betterjust remind us how a big a name in tv phillip schofield is. particularly for people watching around the world who may not know him. philip schofield is a household name here in the uk. he started out as a children s tv presenter and has gone on to present a string of high profile programmes, inclu
Plans for a second Scottish Referendum on independence have been put on ice. First minister Nicola Sturgeon has categorically not dropped the idea of another vote, but said today that no legislation will be brought forward until autumn next year at the earliest. Given the pace at which these things proceed, that means no vote would happen until 2020 and by then it would likely be delayed until after the next scottish elections in 2021. The reset amounts to a setback for the ambitions of the snp, but its arguably also a retreat for the forces of change and disruption that have been dominating politics for so long. It was scotland that led the world into a new era of voter restlessness. A nationalist surge that saw snp Majority Rule in scotland and which paved the way for that Independence Referendum. Scotland has voted no in this referendum on independence. It was a defeat for independence but it came closer than anyone anticipated when it all started. Something had stirred and quickly
thing to do. i do think as well, we as a public do need to be aware that there is notjust two people involved in this. it moves further out than that to his family, his friends, everything said in his statement. i think it is important to have that space notjust for his career but his personal life as well. i think it will help his career moving away from the limelight and letting some time pass. and then if he wants to come back it does have that time in breathing space to do that and think how he s going to do that. thank you very much- how he s going to do that. thank you very much- pr how he s going to do that. thank you very much. pr adviser how he s going to do that. thank you very much. pr adviser and how he s going to do that. thank you very much. pr adviser and brand - very much. pr adviser and brand expert, thank you for coming on. the home office says all e gates at uk airports are working again after a nationwide it issue left passengers facing long queues at passpo
the statement also says itv spoke to a number of people who worked on this morning and they were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour. itv says that a statement issued by the presenter on friday reveals that he lied to people from senior management to fellow presenters, his agents and to the media over this relationship. earlier, i spoke to pr adviser and brand expert, rhea freeman. she gave me her reaction to willoughby s statement. i think it backs up what philip said about that. he kept it a secret. i think it must have been a really difficult position for holly to be in, because what do you say? and i think her silence spoke great volumes as well. but i do think now, at least because she has said something, it can hopefully stop speculation