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My flight got cancelled so i did a bit of off the top of my head, ticket, train to dover and hoped i could hitchhike my way back home. well, not home technically, but... lots of disruption. lots of disruptions. how are you feeling? tired. we're only from maidstone, so it's 45 minutes' drive. and it's taken us about six and a half hours, seven hours. seven and a half hours. _ seven and a half hours now, sorry. seven and a half hours to get to this point. as well as a big increase in tourist traffic, p&0 are running a reduced ferry service after sacking 800 workers earlier this year, and there a...

Of shipping around the world. it makes us competitive. it took the company weeks to resume sailing on the busy dover—calais route. some ferries failed safety inspections — in one case, three times before being cleared to sail. lack of ferry capacity contributed to long lorry cues to dover before easter. do you think you badly misjudged that? well, first of all, i want to say sorry to our customers about the delay in us getting back to service. but i think it's absolutely right and appropriate that we hold safety as our number one priority in the business, that we don't rush through that an...

This is bbc world news. our main headline: it's emerged the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in texas was able to enter the school through an unlocked door. police have been criticised for their response. the head of p80 ferries has told the bbc he's "incredibly sorry" for the impact on hundreds of staff who were sacked without notice earlier this year. peter hebblethwaite said that the dismissal of 800 workers and replacing them with foreign agency workers paid less than the minimum wage was a "difficult decision." but he says the move was intended to secure the future of a stru...

To a very high standard. p&0's reputation has suffered, but peter hebblethwaite insisted customers were coming back and that the changes being made would give the company a bright future. civil and criminal investigations by the insolvency service into the circumstances around the redundancies continue. katy austin, bbc news, in calais. it's more than 40 years since abba went on tour. now, from tonight — after a big build—up and a new album — fans can see the scandinavian foursome performing some of their greatest hits at a new show in london, all thanks to digital technology. our entert...

The headline in the metro reads "crunch time uk" as the paper reports that 59 % of people have made lifestyle changes in the last month to adjust for the rising cost of living, according to a new study. the times reports agency workers employed by p&0 ferries are refusing to work on a ship after it lost power and drifted in the irish sea for two hours yesterday. the telegraph reports on new research that could see those with high blood pressure treated by a single injection twice a year, ending the need for daily pills for millions of brits. and what would you do if you won the lottery? france...