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Passenger banned from all British Airways flights for LIFE after bizarre row at 30,000ft

Ms Nhire is demanding £350 compensation

A woman has been given a life ban from all British Airways flights after a bizarre row at 30,000ft, writes Stephen Hayward in Sunday People .

Bridget Nhire, 33, ended up in handcuffs and strapped to her seat after another customer complained she kept getting up to stretch her legs.

The 5ft 3in stylist says the ­incident, on a Heathrow to Dubai flight, left her “humiliated” and in tears, with police escorting her from the plane before
freeing her without charge five hours later.

She was flying to visit pals when a man sitting behind complained. She said: “He was
telling me to sit down and I said ‘I have the right to get up and walk around for my health’. That ­escalated into a minor argument.

Mother-of-three missing for 42 years found alive and well after decades hiding from family

A mother-of-three who vanished 42 years ago has been found alive and living under a false name.

Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller admitted her identity after being tracked down in Texas by police looking into her case.

She had been missing since leaving home in 1974 shortly after giving birth to her third child. 

Then aged 28, she had decided she was too young to be a mother and signed custody of her children over to her parents. 

Indiana State Police Detective Sgt. Scott Jarvis began looking for her in January 2014 after receiving a request from the Doe Network – a volunteer organisation which helps hunt for unidentified and missing people. 

The detective had arranged for a body buried in an unmarked grave to be exhumed and DNA analysis to be carried out. 

But while this was underway, Sgt Jarvis began to follow the trail of a women with similarities to Ms Gillespie-Miller who was living in Texas. 

DG of NYSC pays condolence visit to family of corps member who was killed during Rivers rerun

 

The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, has paid a condolence visit to the family of Samuel Okonta, a youth corper who was killed during the rerun election in Rivers state last Saturday. He also paid a condolence visit to Obi Akazue Gbemudu II, the paramount ruler of Illah town in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State where Samuel hails from. More photos after the cut.

Missing American siblings confirmed dead in the Brussels terror attack

Missing New York siblings Sascha and Alexander Pinczowski whose cell phone went dead while they were talking to their mom at the airport when that terror bomb blast went off on Tuesday have been confirmed dead on Friday. They were named as part of the 31 killed in the Brussels terror attacks.
The heartbreaking news ended a desperate search that started the moment their cell call from the airport to their mom in Holland sounded like it “went underwater” and then went dead, James Cain, whose daughter Cameron was engaged to Alexander, told the Daily News.

Japan kills 200 pregnant whales

Japan has killed more than 200 pregnant whales, it has been reported.

According to the country’s Institute for Cetacean Research, 333 minke whales have been killed including more than 200 pregnant females as part of this year’s Antarctic whale hunt, the National Geographic reports.

It said that four ships returned from a 100-day expedition this week as part of a project aiming to conduct 'scientific' whaling activities.

The legitimacy of Japan's programme has been challenged previously by the International Court of Justice in 2014.

Woman falls 200ft to her death in front of horrified husband while climbing in Snowdonia

The woman, who was in her 50s, fell around 70 metres to her death at Snowdonia National Park

A woman fell 200ft to her death from a mountain in Snowdonia while walking with her husband yesterday.

The couple were coming down the western face of Tryfan in Wales when they went in the wrong direction and started descending the dangerous Notch gully nearby.

A spokesman for Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue said the woman, who was in her 50s, fell around 70 metres to her death.

Her distraught husband called the emergency services and 15 members of the Ogwen team, six members of Llanberis Mountain Rescue and four volunteers from the Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue team searched for the couple.