Stansted Airport is to introduce a £2 charge for dropping off or collecting passengers at the terminal doors. Currently there is no charge with the change due on 9 November. Drivers dropping off passengers at mid-stay car parks can park for up to 30 minutes for free with travellers using a shuttle to and from the terminal. The airport said it wants to encourage more people to use public transport...
Ex-MP Frank Field reveals terminal illness as he backs assisted dying
Frank Field, the former Labour MP for Birkenhead, has revealed that he is terminally ill as he backed a law that would allow assisted dying. Field, 79, represented the Merseyside constituency for almost 40 years – making him one of the longest-serving MPs in the Commons – before forming his own party and losing the seat in the 2019 general election. He was later made a crossbench peer. During a...