Mirror Daily Digest Top stories from dangerous Ryanair flight to free school meals
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Welcome to the Mirrors Daily Digest where we pull together all the best stories of the day from our News Showbiz Sport teams and more This Thursday were taking a look at the eligibility of free school meals getting extended to the search for missing Brit Jordan JohnsonDoyle Early this morning our World News team shared reports of a Ryanair pilot being forced into an emergency landing due to dangerous weather Nine people including a twoyearold child and a crew member were injured last night after a Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing The plane flew into a severe thunderstorm leaving passengers terrified The pilot announced he was aborting the flight and immediately landing at the nearest airport One passenger described the scenes as chaotic and dangerous The Ryanair jet had 185 people on board when it was hit by extreme turbulence over southern Germany It was flying from the German capital Berlin to the Italian city Milan when the pilot made emergency landing at Memmingen Airport in Bavaria A spokesman for the German authorities said that nine people were injured including one crew member and a twoyearold child Read the full story here Our World News team has been following the case of missing Brit Jordan JohnsonDoyle since the end of last month and today reported that his body had been found in a lift shaft in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur Jordan JohnsonDoyle 25 vanished on May 27 after he was last seen at a bar in a suburb of the countrys capital His disappearance sparked a massive search in a bid to find him but tragically he has now been found dead in a lift shaft at the ground floor of a construction site A postmortem found the cause of death was a chest injury sustained from a fall from height according to police chief Rusdi Mohd Isa He added No criminal elements were found at the scene and the case has been classified as a sudden death report Read the full story here Our Politics team who have long been championing free school meals for children have reported that more than half a million children will become eligible for free school meals from next year after an expansion of eligibility rules Keir Starmer has unveiled plans to extend the lifeline benefit to all kids in families who get Universal Credit UC in England in a move that could save parents up to 500 a year Currently all children in England can get free school meals until the end of Year 2 but after that they only qualify if their family earns less than 7400 a year after benefits In a huge expansion from September 2026 all children in UC households will be able to get a free lunch A large proportion of kids on UC already receive free school meals as their households income falls below the 7400 threshold point But some 500000 more kids will now be eligible according to the Governments estimates Read the full story here Last night our Showbiz team reported that Romeo Beckham has split from his partner Kim Turnbull having had their relationshup dragged into the rift within the Beckham family in recent months Its now been revealed that Romeo 22 and Kim 24 have separated after seven months together Its said that their relationship fizzled out three weeks after his father David Beckham s 50th birthday which was at the start of last month The special occasion fuelled rumours of a family feud as Davids eldest son Brooklyn Beckham 26 and his wife Nicola Peltz 30 were thought to have been absent from celebrations Romeos relationship with Kim was attributed as a factor in the alleged rift at one point though more recently other parties have been blamed instead amid ongoing speculation Read the full story here As part of the ongoing Winter Fuel Allowance saga our Money team earlier shared a message from Money Supermarket guru Martin Lewis after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed yesterday that Winter Fuel Payments will be extended to more pensioners this winter Speaking at an event in Rochdale Greater Manchester yesterday Reeves told reporters that more people will get Winter Fuel Payment this winter adding that further details will be announced as soon as we possibly can She said People should be in no doubt that the means test will increase and more people will get Winter Fuel Payment this winter The Money Saving Expert MSE website founder took to social media after the news broke and posted a video with his instant response Read the full story here
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