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Tuesday, 28 September 2021

The Guardian

• Slow moving turtle delays five planes at Japan airportAirport workers occasionally remove stray cats and racoon dogs from the runway but turtle sightings are rare. Turtles on a Runway probably will never rival Snakes on a Plane for dramatic effect, but one reptile has made headlines after an innocent amble along the tarmac at Japan's second-busiest airport, delaying five planes.

The Independent

• Huge Heathrow queues blamed on ‘nightmare’ new Border Force rotaPassengers at the London airport have reported hours-long queues on several occasions since May

The Mirror

• 'Horrific' Heathrow airport queues 'due to staff forced to work 12 hour-shifts'"Nightmare" changes to Border Force rotas which mean staff are now allegedly subjected to 12-hour shifts have been partially blamed for massive queues at Heathrow airport

Birmingham Post

• Rolls-Royce strikes 1.7bn euro deal to sell off its Spanish ITP Aero engines businessUK engines giant is offloading hundreds of millions of pounds of assets to boost its finances