Ashya King will make his first visit today to the Czech clinic where he is expected to receive the treatment that prompted the legal wrangle over his care.

The grandmother of brain tumour patient Ashya King said she was “relieved” his parents had been released from a Spanish prison but the authorities in the UK needed to be held to account.

Parents of up to 80 trainee pilots, who lost up to €80,000 each when a Waterford pilot training college went bust, are livid at how the Government rallied to help out language school students yet left their children high and dry.

Blly Ray Cyrus has vowed to protect his daughter Miley after she received a barrage of criticism for hersaucy MTV Video Music Awards performance.

Parents of the trainee pilots left up to €80,000 out of pocket by the collapse of a Waterford pilot school have accused the Irish Aviation Authority of examining the wrong accounts when re-licensing the school last year.

The Waterford Pilot Training College which left hundreds of trainee pilots stranded in Florida after taking up to €80,000 in tuition fees from them is being investigated by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

The examiner appointed to the Pilot Training College in Waterford is negotiating with a potential investor interested in taking over the company, the High Court heard yesterday.

Career paths for trainee pilots left stranded after their flight course collapsed have taken off again with special offers of courses in Ireland to help them finish training.

The Garda Fraud Squad are assessing whether to launch an full investigation into a Waterford-based pilot school which collapsed leaving 180 trainees, who had paid up to €80,000 each in fees, stranded in Florida.

The Government will not be able to refund fees to trainee pilots caught up in the closure of their course because it could mean other creditors demanding similar treatment — with a potential cost to the taxpayer of millions of euro.

The Pilot Training College Waterford has gone incommunicado and trainees have been left high and dry, writes trainee pilot Conor Deeny

Pilots who were left out of pocket for up to €83,000 for flight training with the Pilot Training Centre of Ireland are planning to picket the Dáil on Wednesday.

Students of the Pilot Training College say it is “unethical” and “out of the question” that they be expected to pay tens of thousands of euro more in order to have their training taken over by another company.

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has confirmed that the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) will pay for trainee pilots who are stranded in the US to fly home.

A Fianna Fáil senator has urged the transport minister to investigate what happened to the €10m in fees paid by hundreds of trainee pilots after they went into the bank account of a Waterford-based company.

The first of 34 stranded Irish trainee pilots are due to make their way home from Florida today.

The Irish Aviation Authority was warned as recently as last September that the €85,000 fees paid by cadets training with Pilot Training College Waterford were at risk as the company could be in financial difficulty.

A group statement from the 80 Irish trainee pilots left stranded in the US after course chiefs failed to pay $1.2m (€960,000) in bills owed to their partner college has accused the Pilot Training College (PTC) chief executive of “providing false and misleading information”.

“I can’t describe how bad it is. It’s terrible to see grown men in tears. People are feeling highly depressed here. The mental strain is terrible. We loved this course. We’re devastated.”

The Pilot Training College was wrapped on the knuckles by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority two years ago for claiming to be a “leading supplier of commercial pilots to major airlines”.

A fleet of planes used by Waterford’s Pilot Training College have been put up for sale, as the company tries to save a cash-strapped business which has left hundreds of families seriously out of pocket.

Less than a year ago, the Pilot Training College claimed it was “poised to become a European leader in aviation training” even though auditors said its net assets were less than half the amount of its called-up share capital.

One of the 200 families affected by the Florida pilot training crisis have said they “haven’t slept or eaten since this nightmare began”.

The Irish Aviation Authority has suspended flight-training approval for the Waterford-based Pilot Training Centre of Ireland (PTC) after 80 trainee Irish pilots were told their course is being halted.

Trading difficulties are being blamed for the stranding in Florida of 80 trainee Irish pilots, who after forking out €83,000 for training, have been told their course is being halted, the Irish Examiner's Claire O'Sullivan reports.

Up to 80 Irish trainee pilots who paid as much as €83,000 for flight training are stranded in Florida after being told their course will not be continuing.

Up to 80 Irish trainee pilots who paid as much as €83,000 for flight training are stranded in Florida after being told their course will not be continuing.

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PILOTS who will be qualified to fly passengers for commercial airlines all over Europe are being trained at one of the country’s most successful regional airports.