Danny Williams 🇬🇧🇦🇪

Happy #Monday People! 🙋🏾‍♂️ I’m pleased to share that I’ve just achieved my next Milestone, & Target that I set myself, for @LinkedIn… 🎯 To hit 20,000 Connections on #LinkedIn by June 2025! 🙌🏾 Here’s why I’m particularly proud about this: linkedin.com/posts/danny-wi… #NextLevel

We're excited to reveal a first glimpse of the eye-catching new livery on the refurbished Class 222 trains that will serve customers on our West Coast service which launches this Spring... The refurbishment work is being undertaken by Alstom’s modernisation facility in Widnes, in association with Beacon Rail. The trains feature a striking new livery in our signature blue! Read more: lumo.co.uk/who-we-are/lum…

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Due to reported missile attacks, British nationals in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates should immediately shelter in place. Remain indoors in a secure location, avoid all travel and follow instructions from the local authorities.

Dubai just shut down. The busiest international airport on earth. Closed. Indefinitely. Dubai International and Al Maktoum International both suspended all operations on February 28 per official Dubai Airports statement. Over 280 flights canceled. 250 more delayed. The airspace that handles more international passengers than any hub on the planet went dark this morning because Iranian ballistic missiles were flying through it. Now read the airline list and understand the scale of what just broke. Emirates. Grounded. Etihad. Grounded. Qatar Airways. Suspended all flights to and from Doha after Qatari airspace closed. Air India. Every single flight to every destination in the entire Middle East. Suspended indefinitely. Turkish Airlines. Suspended flights to Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Syria, Qatar, and the UAE until at least March 2. Lufthansa. Dubai suspended. Air France. Tel Aviv and Beirut suspended. Wizz Air. Israel, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Amman suspended until March 7. British Airways. Affected. Virgin Atlantic. Affected. Japan Airlines. Affected. Norwegian Air, LOT Polish, Scandinavian Airlines, Aegean, Iberia, Air Arabia, PIA, Saudia, Air Algerie. All affected. All grounded or rerouting. This is not a regional disruption. This is the global aviation network breaking at one of its most critical nodes. Dubai is not just an airport. It is the single largest connecting hub between Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Every flight from Mumbai to London, from Singapore to Frankfurt, from Nairobi to New York that routes through the Gulf is now either canceled, delayed, or burning extra fuel on thousand-mile detours around closed airspace. IndiGo just suspended flights to Almaty, Baku, Tashkent, and Tbilisi until March 28. Not March 2. March 28. A month of Central Asian connectivity erased because Iranian missiles crossed the flight paths. The cost is compounding by the hour. Rerouted flights burn more fuel when oil is spiking past 100 dollars a barrel because the same conflict that closed the airspace is threatening the strait that moves 21 million barrels a day. Airlines are paying surge prices for fuel to fly longer routes around a war zone that did not exist yesterday morning. Every hour the airspace stays closed, the losses multiply across carriers already operating on thin margins. And here is what nobody is calculating yet. Dubai’s economy runs on connectivity. Tourism. Trade. Finance. Logistics. All of it depends on DXB being open. The UAE just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory with a civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from missile debris. The country that built its entire economic model on being the safe, neutral, connected hub of the Middle East is now closed for business because the country it had no quarrel with fired missiles through its airspace. Iran did not just attack military bases this morning. Iran shut down the economic engine of the Gulf. That is a cost Tehran cannot afford to repay and the UAE will not forget.

The farmer lets your cross for free, but the bull charges…

🚀 MLR Expansion: New #Manchester Office… We’re pleased to be starting our new financial year on a high. 📍We’re excited to announce the opening of #MLRManchester at Gilbanks in No.1 St Michael’s. Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/mlr-netw… #MLRNetworks #TeamMLR #PoweredByPeople

Sheepdog skills. Job done ✔️

There’s a farming crisis in Britain. Over 6,000 farm businesses closed since Labour came into power. Supermarkets undercutting farmers with low payments. Cheap imported food putting British farmers a competitive disadvantage. Solar panels plastered over thousands of acres of farmland. The Labour government are putting rural communities and food security at risk. Once the farmland is gone, it’s gone forever. Because ultimately, no farmers, no food.

It’s good to be back… 🙋🏾‍♂️ Let’s Go 2026! 🔥 #NextLevel #Entrepreneur #Business #Global #NewYear

Welcoming in the New Year, Dubai style! 🥳🎇 The world's tallest tower. The world's biggest celebration.

Economic growth Q3 2025: 🇺🇸 4.3% 🇪🇺 0.4% 🇬🇧 0.1% Growth is possible. In fact, it is essential. @RachelReevesMP MUST resign.

‼️ THE BONDI HERO ‼️ Ahmed El Ahmad, a 43yr-old father-of-two fruit shop owner. After so bravely jumping on the first terrorist, he was then shot twice by the second terrorist, and is now being treated in hospital but expected to be OK. Thank you Ahmed. 👏👏

GDP fell 0.1% in the three months to October 2025. Services showed no growth (0.0%), while production (-0.5%) and construction (-0.3%) both fell. Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…

@piersmorgan @mndassoc @PaulCKSedulo 👀

Totally agree with today’s Mirror splash headline.. few more deserving candidates for a knighthood than Kevin Sinfield after another astonishing achievement from this remarkable man who does so much for @mndassoc . Please donate to his fundraising page: mndassoc.org/7in7together

Job losses and increase in unemployment are direct response of govt policies in last Budget - 170,000 jobs lost since the last election and more than half in hospitality - this is why businesses could not cope with business rate changes cityam.com/unemployment-n…

What a series! Big congrats to our new Jungle King, @angryginge13 🏆🌴 You’ve kept us laughing the whole way… even if you did call us a few unpleasant names 😂

You don’t lift children out of poverty by making the whole country poorer. Starmer used to say removing the two-child benefit cap was unaffordable. He banished 7 of his own MPs for backing it. Now it's suddenly become affordable at the exact time he needed to save his own skin.

@DominicMcGregor Avanti West Coast have long been inadequate and too expensive. We need an alternative on the West Coast Mainline, like some other routes, to drive Competition and give choices, but it’s likely a capacity issue, that HS2 was supposed to support but let’s not go there today! 🤦🏾‍♂️🚄

You can no longer get from Manchester to London in under 2 hours. That sentence alone should worry every single one of us. At a time when countries are investing in high-speed rail, connecting regions, and boosting productivity, the UK is doing the opposite: cancelling services, slowing journeys, and quietly accepting lower standards. @AvantiWestCoast are getting rid of the 7am Manchester to London train will still run, just without passengers. You genuinely couldn’t make it up. We’ve normalised decline to the point where a flagship intercity connection between the nation’s second city and the capital, a route fundamental to business, growth, and mobility, is no longer seen as essential infrastructure. This isn’t about trains. It’s about what it symbolises. A country where slower journeys are acceptable. A country where reduced capacity is tolerated. A country where regional connectivity is an afterthought. A country where levelling up is now little more than a slogan. If we are serious about economic growth, opportunity and regional equality, then fast, reliable, affordable transport is the bare minimum, not a luxury. You would now need to get 6.29am to make it to London for 9am The UK deserves better than decline disguised as efficiency. We should demand a country where expectations rise, not fall. I hope @AndyBurnhamGM has a word about this

NEW According to the latest @ONS figures, 693k people left the UK in the year to June. That is the single biggest outflow of people from this country in more than a century 👀