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Hundreds of London-bound passengers were stranded in Cape Town after a passenger door was ripped off a British Airways jet heading for London. The Boeing 777 had just disembarked all on board the London to Cape Town 6000-mile flight when the incident happened on Wednesday morning. Airport ground crews tried to tow the £240m aircraft off the arrival stand to a parking area during routine towing but they had forgotten to unsecure the left-hand exit door. The door was completely torn out of the fuselage and left hanging off its hinges on the airport’s passenger bridge. No customers or crew were onboard at the time and there were no injuries. The Boeing, which carries 300 passengers, was due to return to the UK at 8.50pm on Wednesday but the flight home had to be cancelled. Hundreds of mainly British tourists returning to Heathrow were transferred to the later BA58. It took off two hours late for the 12-hour flight back home and they have now arrived at London Heathrow. A BA spokesman said: ”We have apologised to our customers for the slight delay to their departure from Cape Town due to an issue with the original aircraft. “Our customers continued safely on their way to London on an alternative service.” The 21-year-old plane, which is part of the BA fleet, is a twin engine jet and flies at 590mph and recently replaced retired Jumbo 747’s on the route. Read More Cape Town ‘records its hottest temperature’ amid South Africa heatwave Period changes after Covid jab are short-lived - study shows Statue of Kobe Bryant and daughter placed at helicopter crash site 2 years on

A doctor has been credited with helping to save the life of a football fan during a match for the second time in months. Doctor Tom Prichard works at North Tees Hospital A&E in Stockton and for Middlesbrough FC as the club's doctor. He and his colleagues Chris Moseley and Adam Reed were sprung into action on Monday evening when a fan collapsed in the stand during Middlesbrough's match with Blackburn Rovers. The trio was the first medical responders on the scene and was able to restart the elderly fan's breathing, helping to save his life. It is the second time in the space of three months that Dr Prichard has helped save a football fan's life at a match. In October, he attended to a fan who suffered a cardiac arrest during Middlesbrough's game with Newcastle at St James' Park. Dr Prichard and other medics gave the man life-saving treatment as the game was halted for a full 12 minutes before resuming. The supporter had regained consciousness before leaving the stadium and was taken to hospital where he was said to be in a stable condition. In a statement commenting on Dr Prichard's most recent heroics, Blackburn Rovers said: "Blackburn Rovers are pleased to report that the elderly gentleman who required urgent medical attention during tonight’s game is now in a stable condition in hospital. "The Rovers supporter, who was situated in the lower tier of the Jack Walker Stand, took ill midway through the second half of the 1-0 victory over Middlesbrough. "Rovers wish to pay a special thanks to Middlesbrough’s medical department, who were first on the scene and who were able to restart the gentleman’s breathing, as well as Rovers’ medical staff and the crowd doctor and his team for their swift response." The statement added: "After regaining consciousness, the supporter was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he is alert and stable. "Our thoughts remain with him and his family this evening, and we hope that he makes a full and speedy recovery. Read More Home Office admits unlawful secret policy to seize all Channel migrants’ phones Ministers are ‘cowards’ for not acting faster on air pollution says Labour MP Hospital cleaners take legal action over being paid less than white colleagues Home Office admits unlawful secret policy to seize all Channel migrants’ phones Ministers are ‘cowards’ for not acting faster on air pollution says Labour MP Hospital cleaners take legal action over being paid less than white colleagues

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The Home Office has admitted exercising an unlawful and secret policy of seizing mobile phones from all migrants crossing the English Channel. Lawyers representing the home secretary made the admission at the High Court on Thursday, while fighting legal action brought by three asylum seekers. The men, from Iraq and Iran, were all arrested on arrival in the UK despite committing no crime, and were stripped of their possessions. British authorities kept their mobile phones for several months, leaving them unable to contact their loved ones, as one of the men feared his wife and seven-year-old daughter had been killed. The claimants are asking the High Court to make declarations of “serious illegality”, award damages and require the Home Office to alert everyone affected by the unlawful policy. Their lawyers estimate that hundreds or thousands of mobile phones may have been unlawfully seized dating back to 2018. Alan Payne QC told the High Court: “The home secretary is accepting that the seizure policies were unlawful, were not in accordance with the law for the purpose of the European Convention on Human Rights andi did not provide a lawful basis for the processing of data.” Mr Payne said a version of a mobile phone policy that has been scrapped was unlawful because it was “blanket and unpublished”. He also admitted that a separate policy to keep asylum seekers' phones for a minimum of three months was a “disproportionate interference” with human rights, and that the complete extraction of data from every phone violated the Data Protection Act. The Home Office also admits that a practice where asylum seekers were ordered to hand over their PIN numbers to allow immigration officers to access their phones was unlawful, as were the data protection impact assessments done at the time. The court heard that the “blanket seizure policy” operated at the Tug Haven reception unit in Dover between April and November 2020. Home Office lawyers said its “precise origins are not known” and the policy “appears to have developed organically”. Dir James Eadie QC, representing the home secretary, said there was a “misunderstanding permeating that an illegal entry offence was always committed by passengers” on small boat at the time. In December, the Court of Appeal ruled that crossing the Channel with the aim of being intercepted and claiming asylum did not amount to illegal entry, and that a “legal heresy” had developed among authorities and caused a series of wrongful prosecutions. Lord Justice Edis, who heard that case and the current challenge, said material received subsequently suggests “the origin of the error was actually in the Home Office and its agencies”. Read More Solution for tackling migrant crossings ‘not at sea’, MPs told Home Office loses case over stripping citizenship without notice Home Office refuses to equip immigration officers with bodycams despite IOPC advice Patel facing questions about why Liverpool bomber was allowed to stay in UK Pandemic-era design solution from the past: The Murphy bed Government could tighten controls on opioid 500 times stronger than morphine

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