Hundreds of displaced airport passengers have descended on the Port of Dover in a bid to try to bypass the chaos caused by the global computer outage.

Authorities warned people not to turn up to the port without a booking on Saturday as thousands of families battle to get to Europe at the start of the summer holidays.

Around 200,000 people are set to be hit by delays and cancellations caused by the IT meltdown on Friday, which was triggered by a faulty update to a widely used piece of cyber security software. Many travel insurers are refusing to pay to rearrange holidays.

NHS services, train services, cash machines and contactless payments were also taken offline, with 999 services facing long delays after GP surgeries were unable to make appointments.

Airports have said their systems are working again after global IT outages caused problems, but journeys could still be affected by cancellations and delays.

That has led many to head to the Channel port in the hope of getting across to the continent.

But the Port of Dover has warned that although it is processing traffic well, passengers were already waiting 60 minutes to get through border controls on Saturday morning.

The worldwide IT outage was caused by a glitch in cyber security software made by CrowdStrike, a US company, which caused millions of computers running Microsoft’s Windows to crash suddenly on Friday morning.

It resulted in a so-called “blue screen of death”, sending the computers into recovery mode.

On Saturday morning, P&O Ferries warned of high traffic volumes causing congestion on the roads leading to the port.

They advised passengers to allow extra time when travelling and to bring refreshments.

Irish Ferries also told passengers to allow sufficient time to complete border controls and check-in.

DFDS warned on X of waiting times of up to 120 minutes at border controls and 30 minutes at check-in, with passengers told by Dover to ensure they had good provisions, including water, food and prescription medication.

At Dover Operation Brock, the traffic-holding system for lorries queuing to cross the English Channel, was put in place on the M20 towards the port.

Travel association Abta urged holidaymakers to check with providers if there were any extra steps they may need to take.

A spokesperson said: “We’re at the start of one of the busiest periods of travel, with some schools finishing for the summer yesterday and many more next week.

“Many people will be jetting off abroad – looking to escape the UK’s unseasonable weather of late.

“With Spain, Turkey and Greece among the popular destinations for an overseas trip.

“If you are heading off on holiday this weekend – by whatever means – it’s advisable to check with your travel provider if there are any extra steps you need to take, as some businesses are continuing to feel the impact of Friday’s IT outage.”

Eurotunnel warned of around 30-minute delays to booked times at Folkestone terminal on Saturday morning.

Experts said the chaos witnessed after the outage should come as a warning that societies needed to prepare for more instances of widespread IT meltdown in the future.

Professor Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, warned that countries would “have to learn to cope” with future flaws.

He said: “The worst of this is over because the nature of the crisis was such that it went very badly wrong, very quickly. It was spotted quite quickly, and essentially, it was turned off.”

Prof Martin told Sky News: “Until governments and the industry get together and work out how to design out some of these flaws, I’m afraid we are likely to see more of these again.

“Within countries like the UK and elsewhere in Europe, you can try and build up that national resilience to cope with this. But ultimately, a lot of this is going to be determined in the US.

“If there’s going to be regulation to try and iron out these flaws, it’ll probably have to come from the US and there’s not a great deal that we can do about that.

“So unless and until the structure of the way we do tech changes, we’re going to have to learn to cope with these things, rather than eliminate them.”

One computer scientist has said people need to draw similar lessons from the global IT outage as they did from the pandemic.

Sir Nigel Shadbolt told the BBC’s Today programme: “Often these issues are left (to) technological elites.

“This impacts everyone and we need to understand how those effects ripple through society and think about how we all make ourselves more resilient.”

He added: “The resilience in general of these systems is something very special. We depend on these systems and by and large they are working to very high levels of quality.

“But when they do go wrong, and it’s like a pandemic, literally we should draw similar lessons, what lessons do we draw?

“As individuals, what should we be thinking? We should be thinking about a degree of resilience in our own lives. We should think about having perhaps multiple systems, not depending just on one.”

Leeds city council has launched an “urgent review” of its handling of a child care case after it sparked a night of rioting in the city.

The Harehills area of the Yorkshire city descended into violence on Thursday night with police cars and a bus torched by a lawless mob.

Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, said those responsible for the disorder should feel the “full force of the law” for what she described as “audacious criminality”.

After a tense Friday night where a vigil was held by members of the Romanian and Roma community chanting “please bring the kids back”, the council has called for calm and announced a review of its handling of the “family matter”.

It comes as the parents of the children announced they are going on hunger strike until their four children are returned.

In a statement, Leeds city council said: “The council has agreed to undertake an urgent review of the case and work with Romanian and Roma led organisations, the churches, and the Honorary Consulate of Romania and other family representatives for the best interests of the family and wider Roma community.”

The local authority urged “all communities to remain calm” to try to prevent a repeat of Thursday night’s disturbances that culminated in five arrests on Friday.

“Local people are devastated by what happened, and we want to ensure there is no repeat of the distressing scenes we saw. Such actions will have a long lasting and harmful impact on our community,” the statement continues.

“The Romanian and Roma community have played a fantastic role in the community and have contributed much to the diversity and richness of the Harehills. We want this work to continue, and develop further work that makes Harehills an even better place to work and live.”

The move follows meetings with members of the Romanian and Roma community who claim the authorities had shown “systemic racism and discrimination” when handling the case regarding a family from their community.

On Thursday evening police were called to a home in Harehills after social services encountered difficulties handling a care issue surrounding Romanian and Roma children. Officers were filmed on social media removing children from the home as crowds gathered.

Police said officers were called “after social workers reported being met with hostility when dealing with a child protection matter”.

Officers soon came under attack forcing them to retreat as they became the target of hundreds of people.

West Yorkshire Police is analysing footage of the violence, much of it posted on social media, and has said further arrests will follow in the coming days.

Asst Chief Constable Pat Twigg said on Friday: “The major enquiry team have launched an investigation which will include reviewing CCTV and social media footage and images to identify the perpetrators.

“We will leave no stone unturned in our hunt for all those who were involved and will work closely with our criminal justice partners to bring them to justice.”

A new MP who became pregnant at 15 has revealed she was “groomed” by an older man.

Labour backbencher Natalie Fleet said she now wanted to be a voice for “all those women that have children in far from ideal circumstances”.

Speaking during an interview with Gloria De Piero for GB News, to be broadcast on Sunday, the MP said her family had been “struggling” when she was growing up, at one stage finding themselves homeless, before she gave birth to her daughter “at a very young age”.

She said: “At the time, when I was 15, I felt full of shame and guilt and responsibility.

“And all I was determined to do was make sure that she [the baby] had a life that was as good as she would have had to any age parent. That was what I was determined to do, I didn’t think about me or the impact.”

However, with her daughter now 23 and “the absolute love of my life”, Ms Fleet said she could look back and think “that wasn’t okay”.

She added: “That was an older man. That was potentially, I mean now we have labels like grooming that we didn’t have then.

“I didn’t know we were having unprotected sex. I was a child and this is statutory rape. You know, at the time this isn’t something that we were talking about. It’s not how I saw myself.”

‘Lack of support’

When she came to tell her daughter about what happened, Ms Fleet said she had been surprised that she could not find any advice for women in her situation.

She said: “There was nothing. There’s no acknowledgement that it happens in the UK.

“And the more research I’ve done, I’ve found that there are over 3,000 conceptions every year from rape, but there’s no charity to support these women.”

Ms Fleet is now a mother of four and was elected earlier this month in the seat of Bolsover, Derbyshire, which had been represented for decades by Labour’s Dennis Skinner before being won by the Conservatives in 2019.

As an MP, she said she wanted to use her platform to talk more about women in her situation “and do something about it”.

She said: “I really want to be a voice for all of those people, all of those women that have children in far from ideal circumstances.”

Labour ‘changed my life’

Adding that her childhood experiences still had a “massive impact” on her, including “weekly nightmares”, she said she was still “so excited about what the next Labour Government is going to do”.

She said: “We’re going to make sure that we’re smashing down barriers to opportunity so that there can be more stories like mine.

“I am a product of the last Labour government. It wasn’t a perfect government, but it changed my life and it was transformational.

“And that’s the reason that it’s worth doing a job where you can’t go to the shop in your pyjamas anymore, but where you still have a panic alarm in your bag, your own children are potentially at risk, that’s really awful.

“But when it means that you can make other children’s lives, who aren’t as fortunate, better, that’s incredible.”

The interview with Ms Fleet is expected to be broadcast on GB News between 1pm and 3pm on Sunday.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage girl on Bournemouth beach.

The girl was on the beach close to Bournemouth pier at 8pm on Friday night when she was allegedly attacked.

The incident was reported to police officers who were on patrol in the area, and the suspect was detained soon after.

The alleged attack led to a confrontation between two groups of youths at Pier Approach, with extra police officers being called in to deal with the matter.

A spokesman for Dorset Police said the arrested man was later released on bail.

He said: “Officers – who received the report directly as they were on foot patrol in the immediate vicinity – responded, and it was reported that a man had sexually assaulted a teenage girl by touching her inappropriately.

“Officers were in the area as part of their enhanced patrols of the Bournemouth town centre and beach area. We will continue to work with our partners to provide a visible presence in the vicinity.

“Police will be engaging with members of the public and can be approached by anyone with information or concerns.”

No arrests were made as part of the disturbance that followed.

Britain’s biggest teaching union has warned Sir Keir Starmer that strikes are almost “inevitable” unless the Government agrees to inflation-busting pay rises.

The National Education Union (NEU) insisted Sir Keir must agree with the recommendations of pay review bodies, which are responsible for annual public sector payment increases.

But the Prime Minister indicated last week he would not yield to demand for pay rises above inflation, putting him on a collision course with trade unions and public sector employees.

On Friday night, The Times reported the bodies representing teachers and NHS staff have both suggested awarding an above inflation 5.5 per cent uplift.

Millions of public sector workers received salary increases of more than 6 per cent last year after Rishi Sunak decided to accept the recommendations of eight different pay boards.

Walkouts highly likely

Daniel Kebde, the head of the NEU, warned walkouts were highly likely unless Sir Keir and Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, also agreed to the suggested wage rises.

Mr Kebede told BBC Breakfast: “It would be highly problematic for the Treasury to then intervene and then not implement a 5.5 per cent pay award.

“We absolutely would want to avoid strike action, but that would almost seem inevitable if the Treasury were to make such an intervention.

“Labour have been elected on promising a new deal for working people. The recruitment and retention crisis in teaching is incredibly deep and incredibly severe – there is a special case for teachers to have a significant pay award this year.”

Unions representing teachers, NHS staff and other public sector workers have been demanding bumper increases and junior doctors have asked for 35 per cent.

But when asked during last week’s Nato summit in Washington whether he would give unions asking for above-inflation pay rises what they wanted, Sir Keir said: “No is the answer to the last bit of that question.

“Obviously there are a number of pay settlements to be gone through on an annual basis, but the finances are in a very poor state. I think that is obvious.

“And that’s why we’ve been careful in what we said going into the election, and we’ll be careful what we say coming out of it.”

Mr Kebede responded to those remarks by saying they were “not what we want to hear from the new Prime Minister”, adding: “We expect an above-inflation teacher pay offer that is fully funded.”

Extra £10 billion

Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank, said reports of a 5.5 per cent pay rise recommendation would leave the Government needing an extra £10 billion.

Mr Johnson said: “In terms of the cost, there isn’t a specific number that is budgeted for schools, it’s probably 1 or 2 per cent.

“It’s certainly nothing like 5.5 per cent, so we’d certainly be looking at at least an additional £1 billion on schools’ costs relative to what they’re currently expecting.

“And a number at least double that across the NHS if the proposals for the NHS are similar, which it appears that they might be.”

Labour would be limited in manoeuvre as Sir Keir and Ms Reeves have ruled out any increase in income tax, national nnsurance or VAT.

“[The money] can only come from higher borrowing than they’re planning, higher taxes than they’re planning or cuts in spending elsewhere,” Mr Johnson added.

“There is no fourth option here.”

Police have arrested a prisoner who sparked a manhunt after escaping while on a hospital visit.

A search was launched after Graham Gomm, 63, escaped from prison staff on Thursday.

Gomm, who has been on remand at HMP Wormwood Scrubs for burglary offences, was taken to Hammersmith hospital by prison officers, but was found to have absconded at around 1.18am.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Saturday that he had been arrested in Putney at around 8:30am and returned to prison.

A spokesman confirmed an investigation would continue into how Gomm escaped lawful custody.

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