Flight to Canary Islands forced to return to Manchester after mid-air punch-up
A holiday jet bound for the Canary Islands diverted back to Manchester Airport after a violent passenger had to be pinned down by five people at 35,000ft.
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So what are the Canary Islands really like? See what you're missing by not visiting them - from their spectacular volcanic terrain to the lovely, year-round sun, with all the food, nature and adventure in between.
The ghost of the Isaac Newton Telescope
Officially, the Isaac Newton Telescope relocated from rainy Sussex to a volcano in the Canary Islands in the 1980s. Or did it? Filmmaker Brady Haran investigates Once upon a time the Isaac Newton Telescope was among the world's biggest, its 98-inch mirror the envy of other astronomers. But even before the Queen inaugurated it in 1967, the instrument faced an insumountable problem: its location ...
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