Sitting at the end of the runway, with just seconds before getting clearance for take-off, the spinning propeller of the plane I am in sitting in unexpectedly judders to a quick, and ominous, halt.

‘Where do you want to go?’ asks the pilot as we walk to the plane. ‘Oh, erm… could we go to Oxford and back?’ I ask. ‘Yeah, no problem,’ comes the reply. This is no ordinary flight. For starters, it ...

A 12-year-old Wirral boy is well on his way to becoming a pilot, despite the fact he will have to wait five years until he can hold a pilot's licence. Otto Dawes has been taking flying lessons since ...

Taxpayers, MPs and councillors united last night to condemn the decision to spend £10,000 on flying lessons for a failed asylum-seeker. They said the decision was ‘plain wrong’ and ‘crazy’ when public ...