BBC Thomas Woldbye expressed “his deep regret at not being contactable during the night of the incident”, the review said Attempts to tell Heathrow airport’s sleeping chief executive that the airport had been closed because of a power outage failed because his bedside phone was on silent, an inquiry has found. Thomas Woldbye was in...
A power cut in south-eastern France has temporarily disrupted screenings on the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. About 160,000 homes in the city of Cannes and surrounding municipalities lost power on Saturday, France’s electricity operator RTE said. Police are investigating a possible arson attack as being the main cause of the incident. Organisers...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images The substation fire led to hundreds of flights in and out of Heathrow to be cancelled The root cause of a fire which led to the shutdown of Heathrow Airport and affected hundreds of thousands of journeys worldwide “remains unknown”, an interim report says. Heathrow was closed to all...
At least three people have died in Spain in an incident linked to a massive power cut that shut the country down on Monday, the Civil Guard has told the BBC. They died in the north-west municipality of Taboadela and were from the same family, according to Spanish media. Police are reportedly investigating whether carbon...
André Rhoden-Paul BBC News EPA People use candles in the streets of the city Ourense in north-western Spain The power is out and nothing is working. How am I supposed to get through the day? That was the question faced by millions of people on Monday across Spain and Portugal during the worst electricity blackout...
EPA A massive power cut has caused widespread disruption in parts of Spain and Portugal, with airports, trains and petrol stations impacted. The chaos has also hit stores, with some supermarkets shutting and local grocery stores switching to cash as card payments stopped working. Here we collect some of the day’s most powerful news photographs....
EPA Customers wait at Lisbon’s airport The first sign of trouble Peter Hughes noticed was when his train to Madrid starting to slow down. Then the TV monitor and lights went off. Emergency lights switched on, but did not last, and the locomotive ground to a halt. Four hours later, Mr Hughes was still stuck...
Reuters Police tell travellers that Madrid’s Atocha train station is closed due to the outage A massive power cut hit large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday, causing widespread chaos and disruption. The outage left millions of people without electricity, while internet and phone networks were also down. Trains were cancelled and evacuated in...
A national power outage stopped play at the Madrid Open, with Britain’s Jacob Fearnley among those forced off court. Fearnley had saved a match point in his third-round encounter against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and was about to serve to stay in the match at 6-4 5-4 down when play was suspended on the main court....
Heathrow Airport is closing all day Friday because of a large fire at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it. The airport is experiencing a “significant power outage” because of the fire, a statement from Heathrow said. “To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, Heathrow will be closed until 23:59 on 21 March,”...