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Holidaymakers face massive travel disruptions after flights are cancelled

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Are you affected? Email emily.davies@mailonline.co.uk Thousands of holidaymakers faced massive travel disruption this morning after dozens of flights were cancelled at London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports. Two of the UK’s busiest airports are in chaos today after EasyJet grounded 32 flights at Gatwick. British Airways has also cancelled the same number of flights from Heathrow. … Read more

US radio disruptions as historic sunspot fires a ‘remarkable’ X-flare

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A powerful solar flare has spewed from the same sunspot that produced the spectacular Northern Lights displays on May 10. The May 29 solar flare was measured as a class X1.4 eruption, one of the most powerful types of solar flares, and caused radio blackouts in the US and Western Europe. The sunspot that caused … Read more