then an official statement from loganair confirming there was a uk—wide system is a problem, followed from the national air traffic service calling it a technical problem. at the moment, what is slightly confusing is there are some flight taking off and landing when you look at departure boards, but they will be going at a slower rate. it seems they are moving to manual systems which still allow flights to take off and land but they will cause delays. this is one of the busiest days of the year, more than 3,000 flights are meant to land and take off. if you start to get delays, those will cause disruption which is bad news for those trying to get away or come back home. joe inwood. police on merseyside are appealing for witnesses after two people died after becoming trapped in their car on a flooded road. it's thought their vehicle got stuck in deep water under a bridge after a heavy rainfall. the home secretary has said she's confident asylum seekers can be safely housed aboard the bibby stockholm barge off the dorset coast — despite facing possible legal action from the fire brigade

the scottish airline loganair who mentioned this disruption quite early on said they hope to operateterest got in fights but international flights might be subject to delays and if they are flying with them, check their website for the latest information. easyjet said they are working with the relevant authorities. to understand the impact of this issue but that is something which may take to emerge. the national air traffic services say engineers are working to find and fix the fault and have apologised for any inconvenience to passengers. something that might give you an idea of what potential for disruption there is are these figures which are from the aviation data from. they say that there are 3049 flights that were due to depart uk airports in total today and a further 3054 flights scheduled to arrive so that shows you just how many flights could be affected by this and of course for much of the uk, it is a bank holiday monday and it is near the end of the summer holidays so this really could not have come at a worse time for travellers. some of these statements now that we're

this comes after a statement released by an airline, loganair, saying there had been a network—wide failurer systems this morning and this particular airline saying their hope to be able to operate most intro scotland flights on the basis of local coordination and with minimum disruption. if you are flying with us today, check our website. that is presumably advice across the board if you are about to fly today, do check with the airline websites. as we get more updates on that, will bring them to you. in libya, the foreign minister has been suspended for meeting israel's foreign minister. they met in an informal meeting. libya doesn't recognise israel and backs the palestinian cause. after details of this meeting came out, there were protests in libya. we are joined by tom bateman. just tell us about this meeting. this is one meeting and two very different stories. it took place last week in rome. of the israeli foreign minister was there as was the libyan foreign minister. what we don't knows about what was agreed about how this would be publicised, because what happened on sunday night w

the whistle was blown by loganair the scottish airline based in glasgow.rs about an hour ago on social media on ex known as twitter, that flights were going to be delayed ad and it acknowledged that this was a network wide failure of the air traffic control computer system and basically saying that people would need to just check on flight information before even setting off for the airport. indications from simon calder, of course, the independent's travel expert, who's i think stuck in estonia or something like that, that basically this could be 12 hours or more before they actually solve the problems in terms of national air traffic services down at swanwick in hampshire, in southampton, they say their engineers are working to the fault and to find and fix the fault and they apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. >> do you get in touch with us if someone in your family is stuck? you know, we'd like to hear experience you're hear what what experience you're going gather going through as we gather more information this . but yeah, informatio

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. >> i was watching a nice documentary last night about cabin crew on loganair.rline and it operates the scottish islands, glasgow into ireland. and that sort of thing. and they say it talks about the romance between the crew, the cabin crews . crew, the cabin crews. apparently if you're a pilot , apparently if you're a pilot, male or female, it's very attractive to cabin crew and they all get friendly and they socialise together and whatever, andifs socialise together and whatever, and it's a hard job, it's a tough job, and they're not just there to give you tea and biscuits and that sort of thing as well. they do a lot of hard work and everything else. so credit to cabin crew. >> just want to say that in your documentary loving, did you watch airline back in the day? yes. yes it's a big show. >> wow. do you guys remember jane bolton ? she was the star of jane bolton? she was the star of the show. we've got her on the programme just after nine just after 9:00 today. >> so if she still working, >> so if she was still working, if still with easyjet, if she was sti