DLR turns 30 today

The Docklands Light Railway, the sixth busiest railway in the UK, turns 30 today. TFL’s latest map of Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is aimed at making the rail link easier to navigate. The new multi-coloured design features several branches between Bank, Tower Gateway and Stratford International and Woolwich Arsenal, Beckton and Lewisham. The origins of…

Brave pilot honoured

Atlasglobal, a Turkish Airbus A320, flown by Ukranian captain Alexander Akopov was en route from Istanbul to Erkan, Cyprus, with 127 tourists on board, when it encountered severe violent storms and giant hailstones which smashed the windscreen, but the pilot kept his nerve and landed safely last week. Soon after take-off at 1,300 metres above…