Coronation train

Anna Ellis

LONDON North Eastern Railway (LNER) is proud to launch a newly named service to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, May 6.

From May 6, the daily 11.00am service between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley will be called the ‘Carolean Express’, with the inaugural service departing the iconic London station at 11.00am on the day of the King’s Coronation.

The era of British history under King Charles III will be known as the Carolean era, the same name that was given to the eras of both King Charles I and II.

The ‘Carolean Express’ will join formal service names such as ‘Highland Chieftain’ and ‘Northern Lights’ which are popular daily services on the LNER route, operating between London and Inverness and London and Aberdeen.

The weekday ‘Flying Scotsman’ service operates in the opposite direction, taking customers to London King’s Cross from Edinburgh Waverley at 5.40am, stopping only at Newcastle.

On Friday, April 21, a flight from London on its way to Morocco ended up being diverted 500 miles after the pilot became ill mid­flight, leaving the co­pilot to make an emergency landing in Portugal, according to a news source.

At approximately 6.30am an easyJet flight left from London Gatwick and was on its way to Agadir, Morocco but had to be diverted nearly 500 miles away to Faro in Portugal.

It was reported that the co­pilot landed the aircraft safely with 100 passengers on board at Faro airport.

The Airbus A320 was seen on online flight trackers making an unscheduled stop after a mid­air alert.

A source at Faro airport commented that the diversion was the result of the pilot suffering an ‘indisposition,’ a red alert had been sent and the co­pilot completed a successful landing.

The condition of the pilot and the cause of his illness is as yet unknown.

IN a historic moment, the German President Frank­Walter Steinmeier became the first head of state to ask for forgiveness for the atrocities committed by Germany during the Second World War.

On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Wednesday, April 19, Steinmeier joined his Polish and Israeli counterparts to mark 80 years since the doomed Jewish uprising against Nazi occupiers.

Standing at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Poland’s capital, Steinmeier asked for forgiveness for the crimes committed by Germans during the war. He also criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin for waging war against Ukraine, breaking international law and bringing immeasurable suffering, violence, destruction, and death to the people of Ukraine.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest single act of Jewish resistance against the Germans during the war. The Jewish insurgents launched their revolt on April 19, 1943, preferring to die fighting than be sent to a death camp.

About 7,000 Jews died in the battles, and a further 6,000