UK AIRLINE IN ADMINISTRATION LEAVES THOUSANDS STRANDED

Thousands of people from the UK have been left stranded after Flyglobespan, Scotland's biggest airline, collapsed. Its parent company, Globespan, entered administration yesterday, with all flights cancelled and 800 jobs going. About 4,500 passengers are stranded - mostly in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Egypt. The Civil Aviation Authority will be repatriating about 1,100. Last year the airline carried more than 1.5m passengers, on 12,000 flights. It operated mainly from Edinburgh, Glasgow Prestwick and Aberdeen, but also flew transatlantic services from other UK cities including Gatwick and Belfast. It also flew charter flights from Manchester to Egypt.