Unofficial industrial action at Heathrow over the sacking of 650 catering staff by a BA caterer has entered another day and the airline has had to concede none of its flights will leave before 6pm today. We will be following the story all day, and here on Newsblog looking at some of the issues and arguments the wildcat strike has raised. If your flight is affected, there is also a guide to airline compensation.
Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical London-based cleric who was this week was revealed to be in Beirut, has today been informed by Home Office he is not free to return. On other government exclusion and deportation business, we are rounding up reaction to yesterday's detention of Abu Qatada, a Jordanian, and nine Algerians also deemed threats to national security. We will also be looking at what human rights groups and the Home Office have said about torture in Algeria as the government prepares to agree a "no torture, no ill-treatment" deal with the country.
Finally, if you hadn't noticed, today is not the hottest day of the year. A few months ago there were a flurry of excited press reports predicting today would be the super "fry-day" of an expected summer heatwave, and an epidemic of sickies as Britons either sheltered from the rays or soaked them up. Newsblog will be asking why it is cloudy in London and raining at Old Trafford.
