Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thanks for signing up to theSimon Calder’s Travel email {{ #verifyErrors }} {{ message }} {{ /verifyErrors }} {{ ^verifyErrors }} Something went wrong. “I was at Heathrow the other day and walking out of our lounge the ceiling height is awful,” Sir Tim told The Times. A Heathrow spokesperson said: “Every pound we want to spend on improving airport facilities needs approval from our regulator. Earlier this year, the Civil Aviation Authority said that passenger charges in place at Heathrow for the next two years could be cut by 6 per cent.

When Britain votes in a general election on July 4, one person will likely know the outcome before anyone else. John Curtice, a professor of political science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, will spend Election Day with his team, honing the findings of a national exit poll. At 10 p.m., before any results have been counted, he will make a big, bold prediction that will be announced on national television: the winner. “The lovely thing about the period between 10 o’clock and 11.30 p.m. is that nobody knows!” said Professor Curtice with a grin, raising his hands into the air. In five of the six, the margin of error for that forecast was five parliamentary seats or fewer.

Narendra Modi claims he has won a third term in office but projections show his party is unlikely to win an outright majority. Nonetheless, India's prime minister said:'Citizens have expressed full confidence in BJP and NDA,' referring to the Bharatiya Janata party and its allies. For the first time in a decade, Modi’s BJP failed to secure an overall majority of its own, figures from the election commission showed, meaning it would need to rely on its alliance partners

There seem to be rules in place about this film not queering the pitch for Godzilla X Kong, but these issues seem to have been put aide, and without any real fanfare or groundwork PR, Godzilla Minus One dropped with a worldwide splash on Netflix at the weekend.The maths says Godzilla Minus One > Godzilla x Kong, when it comes to profit if not gross income, and also in terms of artistic achievement, but why? This is easily the best Godzilla film I’ve seen, and there’s multiple reasons for that accolade. So forget all that ‘Godzilla is our friend’ stuff, Godzilla is about as much your bestie as Jaws the shark. One brief attack scene leaves an estimated 30,000 dead, so Godzilla is very much the spectre of mass destruction in Japan post WWII, which feels right. With striking special effects, a fearsome monster, much ingenuity and a strong political viewpoint, Godzilla Minus One really is quite a reboot, and certainly puts the goofy Hollywood version to shame.

The US president has implemented an executive order to close the southern border with Mexico if the number of migrants crossing becomes 'overwhelming', and to ban them from seeking asylum if they have crossed illegally. The order was criticised by progressive lawmakers and immigration reformers, who say it undermines protections for migrants fleeing humanitarian crises. Biden addressed those concerns in his White House speech, warning that the US was losing patience with the flow of migrants

The Spanish outfit have already made an approach for the Argentine, who has just finished his second season at the Etihad. Alvarez remains behind Erling Haaland in the City pecking order and Atletico are looking to add the World Cup winner to their squad. Alvarez still has four years left on his deal in Manchester and Pep Guardiola has found ways to give him consistent minutes. The former River Plate star has just scored 19 times having notched on 17 occasions in his debut season. City and Guardiola have shown that they're willing to sell their top players if they express a desire to leave.

(James Fegan / Sox Machine)In what was otherwise a pretty putrid season for the White Sox farm system, the DSL White Sox stood out in 2023, at least offensively. They finished 32-22 and posted the league’s second-best OBP from a younger-than-average lineup, both of which are rare for any White Sox team, particularly in the lower levels. Then it’s the previous year’s signings, led by Alvarez, a 19-year-old Cuban who hit .215/.461/.333 over 35 games with the DSL White Sox. Alberto (.205/.391/.313) and Alcala (.245/.417/.408) will start their age-18 seasons returning to the DSL, and when you see the OBPs, it’s easier to understand how the 2023 DSL White Sox reached base at a .408 clip as a group. Christian Oppor: 3.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 KDSL White Sox vs. DSL Blue Jays, PPD

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The new measures give U.S. border agents the power to determine a migrant’s fate instead of an immigration judge. On Tuesday, Biden officials criticized Republicans in Congress for not passing a bipartisan deal on the border and emphasized that the newly enacted measure would not allocate personnel and resources to the southwest border. Biden administration officials acknowledge the new rule will likely be challenged in court. Current immigration law states migrants can apply for asylum even if they enter the country unlawfully. Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro stopped accepting deportation flights from the U.S. after the recent reimposition of some oil sanctions by the Biden administration.

The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, had what appeared to be a milkshake thrown over him in Clacton while he was out campaigning in the constituency. A young woman could be seen standing in a crowd outside a Wetherspoon's as Farage strolled out before he was splashed with the drink. Farage announced on Monday that he would run as an MP in the seat, saying he did not want to let his supporters down

The leaders of Britain's two main political parties faced off in the first live TV debate of the general election campaign on Tuesday, a month before voters go to the polls and with predictions of a record win for the main opposition Labour party. The run-up to the clash was overshadowed by Nigel Farage, whose return to the political frontline could spell even more bad news for the Tories. Farage, whose once fringe idea of getting Britain out of the European Union eventually became mainstream, is standing as a candidate for his anti-immigration Reform UK party. Earlier Farage readily admitted wanting to exploit any Tory ideological infighting after the election. "I don't want to join the Conservative party, I think the better thing to do would be to take it over," Farage told broadcaster ITV.

Following the launch of our general election MRP model this week, we will be using the same MRP technique on our regular weekly voting intention polls during the election for Sky and the Times. In recent months our MRP model and our traditional voting intention figures have tended to show a slightly different picture. Our MRP model gives Labour a marginally lower vote share and the Liberal Democrats a slightly higher share. But rather than using rim weighting or raking to weight the voting intention numbers, we will instead put the same data through our MRP model to produce vote shares for the country. What impact will this have on our voting intention figures?

The “great patriotic conference in Madrid” has echoes in a flurry of National Conservative (NatCon) activity in Australia. While the Atlas Network denies that its name is drawn from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the Atlas Society is dedicated to celebrating Rand’s legacy. The MPS is the inner sanctum of the Atlas Network and a centre of climate denial activity. The Atlas Network is funded by a range of beleaguered corporate sectors such as fossil fuel, tobacco and private healthcare. Orbán is now overtly connecting his influence bodies with the American fossil-fuel funded Atlas Network.

This combination of robots and natural bees exemplifies AI’s potential to bolster natural ecosystems where bee populations are struggling to thrive without intervention. Of course, as we deploy AI in beekeeping, researchers must tread carefully, recognising that bees’ intricate social structures and behaviours defy replication by machines. LGT Wealth Management in briefLGT Wealth Management UK LLP (“LGT Wealth Management”) is a UK-based wealth management partnership which provides a comprehensive range of investment management, wealth planning and private investment office services. LGT Wealth Management employs over 650 staff and has offices in London, Jersey, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester. As at 31 December 2023, LGT Group managed assets of CHF 316 billion (USD 375.6 billion) for wealthy private individuals and institutional clients.

A research team from ETH Zurich has teamed up with a chocolate manufacturer to develop a 'healthier, more environmentally friendly chocolate.' In countries that are highly dependent on the cocoa industry, fluctuations in the price of cocoa beans can have a significant socio-economic impact. The new chocolate manufacturing process is as follows: First, the cocoa pulp is extracted, the juice is extracted, and the juice is concentrated to obtain cocoa pulp juice concentrate (CPJC). The cocoa beans are then fermented, dried, roasted and ground in the traditional way to obtain the cocoa mass, which is then mixed with the gel. Of course, the results of the sensory evaluation showed that the chocolate made using the new method had the same sweetness as the conventional chocolate, the research team reported.