There were demands today for the controversial Channel 4 programme 'Boys and Girls Alone' to be taken off air, as a group of leading child experts condemned the TV show as cruel.

Flights to and from a regional airport will be suspended or diverted elsewhere when it closes temporarily tomorrow in a scenario which Ryanair has slammed as a “farce.”

An Irishman who resigned as editor of a community magazine in Cornwall after a complaint about its publication of Irish jokes said today the situation was due to “political correctness gone mad”.

Ryanair is reviewing its twice-daily service from London tothe Cornish town of Newquay.