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Longest security queues at UK airports revealed

PASSENGERS using Manchester Airport face the longest wait for security checks in the UK’s big airports, says a survey.

It can take 17 minutes to go through the hand luggage and body searches at its Terminal One, consumer watchdog Which? found.

This is almost double the wait at Heathrow Terminal Five, where they queue for 8.6 minutes, the poll found. Manchester’s three terminals had the longest waits of any large UK airport.

In comparison, those using Southampton flew through the checks in 5.2 minutes, although it was

22.3 minutes at Belfast International. Which? asked 4,000 passengers to estimate how long they waited. But industry body the Airport Operators Association said the “self-selecting survey does not reflect the experience of the millions of passengers”. Manchester Airport was contacted. minutes wait at security in Manchester Airport, the longest for the major UK airports IN the latest instalment of Whose Kids Are They Anyway? two families are suing the makers of the hit game Fortnite.

At the centre of an eyecatching class action suit are two children, aged 10 and 15, who have supposedly fallen victim to the addictive American video game which has amassed more than 200 million regular players since it was launched two years ago.

Their parents have lodged papers claiming they would not have let their kids play if they’d known just how addictive it was.

That’s right. It is the makers’ fault that the mums and dads of these kids found it too hard to execute their parental duties in setting sensible time limits for their youngsters’ game play.

It is the makers’ fault that the parents of these kids were unable to press the off button or unplug the wifi.

It is down to the makers that the people actually responsible for these youngsters’ wellbeing were simply unable to just say no.

According to the lawsuit, filed in Canada, Fortnite’s makers

Epic “hired psychologists... to really dig into the human brain” to find ways of triggering neurotransmitters in the manner of cocaine.

As our society circles the plughole, however, you couldn’t even say with any certainty that this ludicrous legal action will fail.

Back in 2003, judges were dismissing frivolous lawsuits with the derision they deserved. So when the parents of two American teenagers argued that McDonald’s french fries and Chicken McNuggets made them fat, a federal judge told them where to go.

Last year, however, a dad in Canada launched an action against the fast-food giant claiming targeted advertising had forced his kids to demand Happy Meals.

How hard can it be to just say no? Too many parents these days seem to think their responsibilities end when they leave the delivery suite – leaving schools, restaurants, the police and all sorts of institutions at their mercy.

Hopefully common sense will prevail and the judge presiding over the Fortnite case will leave the parents in no doubt that they need to start living up to their

responsibilities. POPULAR Fortnite

If you can see it, you better can be it. What any inspirations could have than young person sensation 15-year-old tennis winner of Coco Gauff (pictured), over the weekend, her first title breaker Eliud marathon record Ethiopian Prime Kipchoge and

Ahmed, Minister Abiy

Nobel winner of the Peace Prize?

It’s high time parents took responsibility for children’s behaviour