Stansted passengers disagree that stopping airports serving alcohol before early flights will reduce bad behaviour

For most people, the idea of a pint with breakfast is pretty grim. But at the Wetherspoon’s in Stansted’s departure lounge on Thursday morning, it appeared to be the beverage of choice.

“It’s a holiday ritual,” said Dee Wood, 60, a waste policy officer, who was enjoying a pint while waiting to board her Alicante-bound morning flight. “It’s like the start of holiday,” said her friend Rachel Almond, 59, a community planner, who was treating herself to a lager. “We don’t get drunk, we just have a pint, say cheers and off we go.”

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The pianist binds Schubert’s D850 with Schumann’s Kinderszenen with playing of warmth and crystalline technique

Arcadi Volodos records infrequently, making each album something of an event. The two works here, both staples of the Romantic piano repertory, couldn’t be more different, and yet he manages to bind them together, bringing elasticity and a dash of fantasy to Schubert’s D major sonata, D850 while investing Schumann’s evergreen Kinderszenen with a dose of Schubertian longing.

In the sonata’s opening Allegro vivace, he’s far less headstrong than, for example, Alfred Brendel or Radu Lupu, but notably more flexible – daringly so at times. Measured phrases are shaded with supple rubato, the line enlivened with tiny dynamic emphases. The expressive slow movement, laced with musical question marks, exudes a calm benevolence. Volodos can be playful, too, with a mischievous take on the disorderly scherzo and a dainty finale that borders on the coquettish.

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Ted Turner has passed away at 87. He started one of the first nationally available superstations on cable television, founded CNN, won the America's Cup, owned the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, and World Championship Wrestling. He faced backlash for colorizing classic films but also started Turner Classic Movies to preserve classic cinema. He was married to Jane Fonda for a time and in his later years was the largest landowner in the United States, using that land for the largest existing herd of American Bison. He donated $1 billion to promote cooperate with the United Nations and co-created Captain Planet to teach kids about environmentalism

April is de droogste maand. Daarom vinden er ook juist dan de meeste natuurbranden plaats. Dit jaar viel er zelfs uitzonderlijk weinig regen in april.

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NIJMEGEN (ANP) - De opvarende van het cruiseschip de Hondius die donderdag is opgenomen in het Radboudumc, is positief getest op het hantavirus. Dat bevestigt het ziekenhuis in Nijmegen op basis van informatie van het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM). De patiënt ligt in isolatie.