Iceland volcanic ash disrupts flights

Smoke and steam above the volcano at Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier. The second eruption in less than a month has melted ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters
Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP

A false colour infrared image showing Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano
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The ash plume of the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano
Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters

The crater of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier
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A natural colour satellite image from 24 March of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano
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A broken section of Iceland's main coastal ring road near Reykjavik after melt water from the volcano caused river levels to rise by up to 3 metres
Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP

A boy lies on mattresses at the South Iceland Care Centre after hundreds of residents were forced to leave their homes
Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP

An emergency worker records a driver's details after hundreds of residents were forced to leave their homes
Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP

Lava spurting out of the eruption site
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Lava spurting out of the volcano
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Lava spews out of a mountain in Hvolsv llur, Iceland, on 21 March
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Passengers wait in Manchester airport after all non-emergency UK flights were cancelled. Similar measures have been taken across much of Europe
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An image from Nasa's Terra satellite shows the volcanic ash plume travelling from Iceland to the north of the UK
Photograph: NEODAAS/University of Dundee/PA

The Welcome to Belfast greeting has a hollow ring about it at Belfast international airport
Photograph: Paul Mcerlane/EPA

Planes sit on the tarmac at Gatwick airport
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A stranded passenger in terminal 3 of Copenhagen airport, Denmark
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A motorway sign in Glasgow warns of flight cancellations
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Grounded planes at Heathrow, London
Photograph: Felipe Trueba/EPA

Passengers wait at Faro airport in Portugal after flights were cancelled
Photograph: Luis Forra/EPA

A woman in the empty departure hall of Bristol airport
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A detail of an enchanced colour satellite image highlighting the ash plume moving towards the UK
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A new volcanic fissure near Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano sends a plume of ash and steam skyward
Photograph: Nasa/Reuters

Volcanic ash rises from a crater under about 200 metres of ice at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier
Photograph: Reuters

A girl sleeps in the departure lounge at Gatwick airport
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Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport is eerily quiet after most flights in and out of the UK were grounded
Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

A grounded plane at Heathrow airport
Photograph: David Levene