as we ve been hearing there s significant holiday travel disrupton from the uk with uk holiday makers facing continued cancellations and severe delays at airports, train stations and ferry terminals at the start of the half term break. easyjet and tui have cancelled dozens of flights, while long queues have also been seen at london s st pancras station. paul charles, travel expert and ceo at the pc agency, told me about the issues that passengers, airports and airlines are experiencing. fundamentally, eurostarjust saw a really busy day yesterday. and we ll see another very, very packed day today. it s good that people are coming back, so the demand is there, but the airports and the airlines are worse affected. they are suffering from a lack of staff. the workforce available for the travel and tourism sector has shrunk and as a result, airlines and airports have found it very difficult to attract new talent, fresh talent back into the sector. they simply aren t paying wages that are
at the start of the half term break. easyjet and tiu have cancelled dozens of flights, while long queues have also been seen at london s st pancras station. our correspondent tim muffett is there for us this morning. tim, what s the situation there now? good morning to you. this weekend for many of us marks the start of the half term holidays and as you say right now it is quiet at st pancras here in the eurostar terminal. pancras here in the eurostar terminal- pancras here in the eurostar terminal. , , , terminal. yesterday they were very lona terminal. yesterday they were very long queues terminal. yesterday they were very long queues snaking terminal. yesterday they were very long queues snaking their- terminal. yesterday they were very long queues snaking their way - terminal. yesterday they were very l long queues snaking their way along the road behind me, notjust holidaymakers but many liverpool fans on their way to paris for the champions league final and we are sure we wi
“oininu together again. thank you for joining us. together again. thank you for joining us, especially- together again. thank you for joining us, especially so - together again. thank you for joining us, especially so earlyj together again. thank you for - joining us, especially so early from uvalde in texas. the well known english stage and tv actor patricia brake best known for her role in the british sitcom porridge, has died at the age of 79 after a very long battle with cancer. her daughter told the bbc that she died yesterday morning at home, with herfamily by her side. uk holiday makers continue facing cancellations and severe delays at airports, train stations and ferry terminals at the start of the half term break. easyjet and tui have cancelled dozens of flights, while long queues have also been seen at london s st pancras station. our correspondent tim muffett told us more. this weekend, for many people, marks the start of half term. and right now here at st pancras eu
as i can get a quarter pound of pear drops in a sweet shop, i will be happy. you re watching bbc news. uk holidaymakers continue facing cancellations and severe delays at airports, train stations and ferry terminals at the start of the half term break. easyjet and tui have cancelled dozens of flights, while long queues have also been seen at london s st pancras station. and there are apparently continuing to be queues at dover for the ferry service to france. i spoke with paul charles, travel expert and ceo at the pc and there are apparently continuing to be queues at dover for the ferry agency, about the issues that passengers, airports and airlines are experiencing.
busy here at the port - what is the latest? it is really busy here at the port of- what is the latest? it is reallyi busy here at the port of dover what is the latest? it is really - busy here at the port of dover and if you take a look down there you can see just some of the cars and vans waiting to get across the channel. amongst them some liverpool fans anxiously looking at their watches as the countdown to the champions league final in paris is under way. adding to that you have a lot of tourist traffic with the start of the half term break and also p&o ferries are running a reduced service which is adding to theissues reduced service which is adding to the issues and there are no increased checks following brexit so a bit of a perfect storm. there are so many lies king up on the outskirts of dover that the coastguard has standard, started to hand out food and water. also at st pancras station in london we had long queues with people trying to board eurostar trains to paris and als