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#24734412 at 2026-06-19 19:50:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #30194: Release The Fleas Edition

UK: BREAKING LIVE: Two Trains Collide Near Bedford With Major Emergency Response Under Way

Live aerials as British authorities were responding to a report of a collision Friday between two trains in the Bedford area north of London.
Two passenger trains have collided near Bedford and a major emergency response is under way Rail operator Thameslink says all lines are blocked between Luton and Bedford due to a "problem under investigation"
A major train collision has been reported approximately 60 miles north of London, near Bedford, prompting a large-scale emergency response. British Transport Police confirmed they are investigating the incident, while shocking visuals circulating on social media appear to show one train crashing into another on the tracks.
Emergency services, including the East of England Ambulance Service and an air ambulance, rushed to the scene as multiple injuries were reported. Authorities have urged the public to avoid the area while rescue operations continue.

UK Transport Minister Heidi Alexander expressed deep concern over the incident, as Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue crews work at the site. Rail services have been severely impacted, with East Midlands Railway suspending services to and from London, and Thameslink confirming all lines between Luton and Bedford remain blocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODNdv5tQUhw

#23629759 at 2025-09-20 22:29:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28786 Terrorists Occupy 4chan Edition

Day of delays at Heathrow after cyber-attack brings disruption
Maia Davies,Rachel Muller Heyndyk, and Joe Tidy 3 hours ago

Heathrow was among several European airports hit by delays on Saturday after a cyber-attack affecting an electronic check-in and baggage system.

The airport said a number of flights were delayed as a "technical issue" impacted software provided to several airlines.

Brussels Airport said a cyber-attack on Friday night meant passengers were being checked in and boarded manually, and Berlin's Brandenburg Airport reported longer waiting times due to the problem.

RTX, which owns software provider Collins Aerospace, said it was "aware of a cyber-related disruption" to its system in "select airports" and that it was working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

The company added: "The impact is limited to electronic customer check-in and baggage drop and can be mitigated with manual check-in operations."

It said its Muse software - which allows different airlines to use the same check-in desks and boarding gates at an airport, rather than requiring their own - had been affected.

The BBC understands that British Airways is operating as normal using a back-up system, but that most other airlines operating from Heathrow have been affected.

A National Cyber Security Centre spokesperson said: "We are working with Collins Aerospace and affected UK airports, alongside Department for Transport and law enforcement colleagues, to fully understand the impact of an incident."

The European Commission, which has a role in managing airspace across Europe, said it was "closely monitoring the cyber attack".

A spokesperson added there was no indication of a "widespread or severe" attack and that it was working with airlines and airports to "restore operations and support passengers".

Hundreds of flights have been delayed at the airports throughout Saturday, according to flight tracker FlightAware.

Dublin Airport said it and Cork Airport had experienced a "minor impact" from the cyber-attack, with some airlines implementing manual check-in processes.

Lucy Spencer said she had been queuing to check in for a Malaysia Airlines flight for more than two hours, and that staff were manually tagging luggage and checking passengers in over the phone.

"They told us to use the boarding passes on our phone, but when we got to the gates they weren't working - they've now sent us back to the check-in gate," she told the BBC from Heathrow's Terminal 4, adding that she could see hundreds of people queuing up.

Another passenger, Monazza Aslam, said she had been sitting on the tarmac for over an hour "with no idea when we will fly", and had already missed her onward connection at Doha.

"I've been at Heathrow with my elderly parents since 05:00," she said, adding: "We are hungry and tired."

Johnny Lal, who was due to fly to Bombay for his mother-in-law's funeral on Saturday, said he and his family will now miss their flight.

He told the BBC his mother "can't walk one step without her [mobility] scooter" but that Heathrow staff had been unable to provide her with one. "They keep just telling us the systems are down."

Luke Agger-Joynes said that, while queues in Terminal 3 were "much larger than normal", the airline for his US flight and the airport "seem to be prepared and the queues are moving much faster than I feared".

He added: "They are also calling out specific flights and picking people out of the queue to ensure they don't miss their flights."

Heathrow said additional staff were at hand in check-in areas to help minimise disruption.

"We advise passengers to check their flight status with their airline before travelling to the airport and arrive no earlier than three hours before a long haul flight or two hours for a domestic flight."

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said she was aware of the incident and was "getting regular updates and monitoring the situation".

EasyJet and Ryanair, which do not operate out of Heathrow but are among Europe's biggest airlines, said they were operating as normal.

Brussels Airport said there would be a "large impact on the flight schedule", including cancellations and delays.

Europe's combined aviation safety organisation, Eurocontrol, said airline operators had been asked to cancel half their flight schedules to and from the airport between 04:00 GMT on Saturday and 02:00 on Monday due to the disruption.

In a separate incident, Dublin's Airport 2 terminal has reopened following a security alert. Suspicious luggage was flagged to Garda? (Irish police) on Saturday, who evacuated the terminal as a "precautionary measure".

Travel journalist Simon Calder said that "any disruption is potentially serious" at Heathrow, given it is Europe's busiest airport, and that "departure control is a really complex business".

He told the BBC: "These things are all interconnected, so a little bit of a problem in Brussels, in Berlin… people start missing connections, planes and passengers and pilots are not where they are meant to be, and things can get quite a lot worse before they get better."

It was only last July that a global IT crash due to a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike caused disruption to aviation, grounding flights across the US.

Analysts said at the time that the incident highlighted how the industry could be vulnerable to issues with digital systems.

While there are unfounded accusations circulating that this cyber-attack was carried out by Kremlin-sponsored hackers, all major hacks in the past few years have been carried out by criminal gangs more interested in extracting money from their victims.

Extortion gangs have made hundreds of millions of dollars a year by stealing data or using ransomware to cause chaos and extract ransoms in bitcoin from their victims.

It is far too early to know who is behind this attack. Some cyber-security experts suggested this could be a ransomware attack, but note that these can be perpetrated by state-sponsored actors as well.

Collins Aerospace has yet to comment publicly about the nature or origin of the hack.

Many hacking gangs are headquartered in Russia or other former Soviet countries, some of which are thought to have ties to the Russian state.

But there have been plenty of arrests elsewhere, while British and American teenagers are accused of carrying out some recent large cyber-attacks against Las Vegas casinos, M&S, Co-op and Transport for London.

Liberal Democrats MP Calum Miller said the government must make a statement on whether they think the Kremlin is to blame.

He referred to Russian warplanes entering Estonian airspace on Friday, adding "the government needs to urgently establish if Vladimir Putin is now attacking our cyber systems".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3drpgv33pxo

#22928904 at 2025-04-18 17:15:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27988: Shall We Play A Game? Whose The Pawn? One If By Land Edition

No-fly zone over King's home at Sandringham after drone sightings
Friday 18 April 2025 12:31, UK

A no-fly zone has been put in place over the King's home at Sandringham after drone sightings were reported during the Ukrainian president's visit to the estate.
The restrictions were requested by security services on 4 March - days after Charles hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy - and came into force on 10 March.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander signed off on the order that restricts aircraft from flying below 2,000 feet at Sandringham "for reasons of public safety and security".
The order states: "These regulations impose restrictions on flying in the vicinity of Sandringham House, Norfolk.

"In view of the need for security for members of the Royal Family and other dignitaries staying at or visiting Sandringham House and at the request of the security services, it has been agreed by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport that flying should be restricted in the vicinity of that location for reasons of public safety and security."

The order does not apply to royal flights, visitors' aircraft and police and emergency services.
The King hosted the Ukrainian leader while he was in the UK for a defence summit in London.

Drones on the estate sparked a major security operation, with one traced to a man sitting in a car nearby and the source of others believed to be unknown, The Sun reported.
Buckingham Palace did not comment.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-fly-zone-over-kings-home-at-sandringham-after-drone-sightings-13351029

#22812898 at 2025-03-24 10:34:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27863: Boasberg orders are lawless, dangerous, ignore them. IMPEACH HIM? Edition

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A Heathrow spokeswoman said that Mr Pettigrew's comments "confirms that this was an unprecedented incident and that it would not have been possible for Heathrow to operate uninterrupted.

"Hundreds of critical systems across the airport were required to be safely powered down and then safely and systematically rebooted," she said.

"Given Heathrow's size and operational complexity, safely restarting operations after a disruption of this magnitude was a significant challenge."

Heathrow managers decided to close the airport on safety grounds while they switched to the alternative National Grid supplies.

The airport's chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, told the BBC the delay in reopening was due to the need to "reallocate" the power supply - "closing down and restarting systems which takes a long time".

He said there were a "number of systems we have to shut down and then bring them back up and ensure they are safe".

"It's fuelling systems, it's bridges, it's escalators, all of these systems have to be brought back up [and] tested to ensure they are safe."

He added that there were risks "of certain sizes we cannot guard ourselves against 100% and this is one of them".

However the duration of the shutdown has infuriated airlines.

Willie Walsh, the former British Airways boss and head of the airline organisation IATA said it was a "clear planning failure by the airport" and the systems and procedures for handling power failures are now under the spotlight.

Mr Woldbye, who attracted criticism for claiming the airport had "come back quite fast", said he was "happy" to answer to the prime minister.

The Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander wears a Halfords orange high vis jacket and stares directly at the camera.
Image caption,
Heidi Alexander has asked to take "a very close look" at Heathrow's internal review

Questioned on whether she remained confident in the decision making of Heathrow's management on BBC Breakfast, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander noted that the airport "is a private company".

She added: "The individuals who need to ask themselves whether they have full confidence in Heathrow management are the Heathrow board."

More than 63,000 homes also lost power in the outage caused by the fire, according to energy supplier Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. About 150 people were evacuated from properties surrounding the substation.

Substations, operated by National Grid, are designed to produce, convert, and distribute electricity at suitable voltage levels. Heathrow uses three electricity substations, each with a back-up.

However, the fire put both the substation and its back-up out of action. Heathrow's emergency back-up generation functioned normally.

The government has ordered a six-week investigation into the shutdown that resulted from the fire, led by the National Energy System Operator (Neso).

Alexander said she was not going to "prejudge" the Neso report, the initial findings of which are expected in May, nor Heathrow's internal investigation.

She said that she had asked to take a "very close look" at Heathrow's report, which will be undertaken by former Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly.

"Any steps that need to be taken to protect our critical national infrastructure will be taken if those reports recommend particular courses of action," she added.

Simon Gallagher, managing director of UK Network Services, a consultancy specialising in power grids, said every airport in the UK had the same "vulnerability" to National Grid faults.

He said that a data centre near Heathrow entirely backs up its power sourcing, and that it was a "fair question to ask" why the airport had not been protected in the same way.

"It's a hard argument to make to say that data centres are more important than Heathrow," Mr Gallagher told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjy4m0n1exo

#22812896 at 2025-03-24 10:33:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27863: Boasberg orders are lawless, dangerous, ignore them. IMPEACH HIM? Edition

* Global air chaos via Heathrow was avoidable says UK electricity transmission Chief *

National Grid boss says Heathrow had 'enough power'

Tom Symonds
BBC News correspondent
Published
24 March 2025, 03:51 GMT

The National Grid's chief executive has said Heathrow had "enough power" from other substations following Friday's fire that caused the airport to shut down.

John Pettigrew told the Financial Times, external the fire that knocked out a substation was a "unique event", but that two other substations remained operational and capable of powering the airport in west London.

Heathrow's chief executive had already said the shutdown it caused was not due to a lack of power, but was due to the time it took to switch from the damaged substation to the other two.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was asked whether she had full confidence in Heathrow's management. She said it was a matter for the airport's board.

The airport halted operations for 18 hours on Friday, causing thousands of flights to be cancelled and leaving passengers stranded across the globe. The incident also disrupted the supply of millions of pounds of goods that go through the airport.

The fire started in a transformer within the electrical substation in Hayes, north of Heathrow, around midnight.

The airport has emergency back-up power supplies, which use diesel generators and batteries, but these only keep crucial safety systems running, such as landing equipment and runway lights.

A separate biomass power generator also provides heat and electricity to Terminal Two.

However, the National Grid is the main source of power for Heathrow.

Mr Pettigrew told the Financial Times he couldn't remember a transformer failing to such an extent in his 30-year career in the industry.

"Losing a substation is a unique event but there were two others available. That is a level of resilience."

He added: "There was no lack of capacity from the substations. Each substation individually can provide enough power to Heathrow."

Mr Pettigrew said the two other substations illustrated the "level of resilience" in power infrastructure