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the it"ui‘ei ‘uf wm it-‘ufie: ‘uf uefim level it‘lfie: l15 lefim level never it‘rfie: ‘r5 lefim level never really disappears. a warm up level never really disappears. a warm up game or a level never really disappears. a warm up game or a friendly, the competitiveness just comes out. but my reflections on my game is based a lot on technique, notjust hand eye coordination so i think as a result, i've had longevity and sometimes players who rely on reflex might not have, but like i said before, sometimes you hold on a bit too long and they'll think it's better to let goa and they'll think it's better to let go a bit sooner than later. england are 177 for four at the open. that's all from us. ryanair has already been forced to
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cancel 50 flights a day because of a shortage of available pilots. simon calder is an expert on all things travel. first of all,, the press release says they're bringing enforcement action against ryanair. what does that mean? there are all sorts of actions they could take under the enterprise act 2002. they could say, we're not going to let you fly unless you adhere to the law. it is unlikely we will see any action taken but the tone of the letter in which the chief executive of the civil aviation authority rights to the legal chief at ryanair is unprecedented. it goes through every stage of this extraordinary saga, saying that on the 18th of
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september in a press conference, michael o'leary, the chief executive of ryanair, michael o'leary, the chief executive of rya nair, misled michael o'leary, the chief executive of ryanair, misled passengers whose flights had been cancelled about their rights. this crucially hinges on the right to be re—rated on a different airline. at that press conference, michael o'leary said that ryanair did not need to reboot people on other airlines. the airline has since changed its tune but today when it announced another 18,000 cancellations, it fails, according to the civil aviation authority, to provide on its website full details of all people and avail —— people are entitled to. they cancelled flights from gatwick to belfast, from glasgow to stansted and edinburgh to stansted. there are other airlines. easyjet operate on those routes. what ryanair should say is, we will buy your ticket on the nearest available flight on easyj et the nearest available flight on easyjet and they have refused to do so, says the civil aviation
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authority. they have announced more flight authority. they have announced more flight cancellations affecting 400,000 people. is this the end of it? that is what ryanair passengers will wonder. will that be more flight will wonder. will that be more flight cancellations announced in future? ryanair says absolutely not, they say this is sorting out their pilot rostering issues once and for all and these are tied up with very complicated games of three—dimensional chess that needs to be played with pilot rosters, making sure they're not exceeding theirflight time making sure they're not exceeding their flight time limitations, that they're getting the holidays they need and that they working when they are mainly needs them to work and that clearly has gone very badly wrong. i must say, however, that ten days ago when they announced 2100 cancellations to take is up to the end of october, they said don't worry, the winter will be fine. my view is that they are almost certainly telling the truth when they say they should not be any
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further pilot related cancellations but you can forget anybody who thinks, well, frankly i don't want to ta ke thinks, well, frankly i don't want to take the risk. i don't want my airline ticket to become a lottery ticket. tell us more about what is at the root of all this, is just about pilots? ryanair is the biggest most profitable airline in europe because of unorthodox practices in terms of cost control covering a whole range of things from airport charges to how much it actually pays for its planes. however, very critically, they also have some interesting employment practices from pilots. those have come in for a great scrutiny and there have been stories bounding on social media that ryanair stories bounding on social media that rya nair is stories bounding on social media that ryanair is actually losing pilots in droves. there is a certainly a heavy turnover of pilots. there always has been because if you are an ambitious man oi’ because if you are an ambitious man 01’ women because if you are an ambitious man or women starting off your firstjob
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in aviation, ryanair is a very good place to get some hours under your belt before you move on to a different, perhaps more generous airline, but ryanair different, perhaps more generous airline, but rya nair says different, perhaps more generous airline, but ryanair says no, we've messed up the scheduling. it's all to do with complicated roster stuff and changing the year, the way in which they give is computed, and they say they are recruiting was more passengers and passengers from all across europe and the gulf and applying to them in greater numbers than ever. rya nair says applying to them in greater numbers than ever. ryanair says we haven't really got a fundamental pilot problem. 0ther really got a fundamental pilot problem. other people have different views, but certainly, they can throw money at this problem. however, that will increase their costs, but increased costs means they can't keep fares as low as they would like to and it means perhaps life will get tougher, but i must say, michael 0'leary, where they might not be the most popular airline boss amongst passengers, he certainly is among airline investors at ryanair, by far the most profitable airline in
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europe. it's been a thoroughly wet day. the weather front is not moving eastwards in a hurry. there are not many isobars to push it through. the wind is actually across eastern areas this evening. heavy bursts around, too. pushing into eastern scotla nd around, too. pushing into eastern scotland and much of england after a fine day. northern ireland, southwest england and wales town crier. we start thursday morning in double figures but a fresh appeal to the west compared to the last few days but you sabbath morning sunshine for your commute. eastern parts of the country, it's a different story, but the damp spots,
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heavy bursts across caithness and 0rkney. patchy drizzle across eastern parts of scotland and northern england. the cloud breaks are indeed clock —— around eight o'clock east of the pennines. it may break up over the southeast but it will brighten up through the morning into the afternoon, most places scheme sunny spells with light winds with the breeze picking up but a pleasa nt with the breeze picking up but a pleasant day when the sun is out, evenif pleasant day when the sun is out, even if it is not as muggy today, sunshine and temperatures of 17 to 20 celsius. thursday night, we see changes, outbreaks of rain starting to push eastwards. driving that is a menacing area of low pressure to the west bassett pushes towards iceland, not us, but it strengthens the wind and the back edge of the weather front pushes through quicker than what we have seen today so some of you will see rain across scotland,
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england and wales, most of come drier and brighter into the afternoon, last of all east anglia and the southeast and not a bad day before the showers gathered later in the day, showers 15 to 19 celsius. into the weekend, a fresh start on saturday as soho road initially but a few showers developing initially encoding into the remnants of two hurricanes are consumed into this product area of low pressure, keeping out to as for the time being. at the moment, the forecast is wet and windy. you're watching beyond one hundred days. the revenge of the real populists. donald trump suffers a crushing blow after his chosen candidate is defeated in alabama. if you thought trump was the outsider — think again. last night's result suggests he's now seen as part of the establishment. meet roy moore — he thinks homosexuality should be illegal and muslims should not
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