The Latest Breaking News from Stansted

Flights were diverted to surrounding airports including London Stansted

Ryanair, British Airways and easyJet have had to cancel flights this week with services from London Stansted, Bristol, Manchester and Edinburgh impacted due to French air traffic controller strikes

Police were scrambled to the airport after reports of a security alert on board a plane on the runway

Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports are taking part in the e-gate trial this week, with the decision whether to roll out the scheme across the UK in the hands Border Force

Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted are launching trials of e-gates for children aged 10 and 11, with other airports including Manchester and Birmingham possibly to follow suit this summer

Border Force director-general Phil Douglas said a trial is being launched at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports.

Stansted, Manchester and Heathrow airports all have particular rules around when and where passengers are permitted to sleep when waiting for their flight to depart

Ryanair will shuttle between London Stansted and Edinburgh three times a day

The Irish Mirror spoke to one passenger amid the weather chaos affecting a number of airports in and around Ireland this week

Some 240 flights have been cancelled two and from UK airports

Scores of flights have been cancelled at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports and the Tube and train services severely disrupted as freezing fog and heavy snow blanket London - with the wintry weather set to cause chaos for Monday rush-hour travellers. A yellow warning of snow and ice from the…