Nicola Phillips

Siblings 🙈💖😍

@stcyresdofe @CyresYr9 Thankyou Mr B for all your hard work in this !! 👏🏼 Much appreciated

Well done to the @CyresYr9 pupils who completed their DofE Assessed Epedition section of the Bronze Award today. Great work all 👏🏻👏🏻

@StcyresD @StCyresSchool Brilliant night! Such talent 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Congratulations to our wonderful singers who performed as part of a concert in Cardiff tonight. 89% of the line up were @StCyresSchool students. You are awesome!!!! #singing #StCyresChat

@StcyresD @StCyresSchool @CityURCCardiff @CAVMSNews An amazing concert. Thankyou 👏🏼

Tonight 11 of our awesome singers from @StCyresSchool performed @CityURCCardiff. All of them were brilliant! Keep working hard and keep enjoying it! Thank you to Hollie from @CAVMSNews for the opportunity #StCyresChat #singing #musicinschools 🎤🎶

Beautiful Brecon waterfalls 🥰

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was on board TWA flight 2, bound for Hawaii with a stop in St. Louis. The wheels of my plane left the runway of JFK airport at 08:45 AM. On the flight with me was my brother Jim at a window seat. Jim witnessed the plane crashing into the north tower of the World Trade Center moments after we were airborne. About forty minutes into our flight, our plane slowed dramatically and lost altitude. The maneuver caused me to rise off my seat an inch or two and bump into the the back of the seat in front of me. Then the fasten seat belt sign came on. The Captain eventually announced we were being diverted to Dayton, Ohio due to a national emergency. That was the only announcement. A somber flight attendant nodded her head yes in response to my question about whether our diversion was due to what we had witnessed taking off from New York. The flight attendant said she had no other information. Myself, my girlfriend Kate, and brother Jim concluded correctly there had been a terror attack. Now why were we being diverted? Kate and Jim concluded all planes in flight must be landing - a notion I dismissed. I am a bit of a flight buff and knew there would be thousands of planes in flight early on a Tuesday morning. In fact, Jim and Kate were correct. It was a bold and courageous decision by Ben Sliney, the Federal Aviation Administration’s Operations Manager. And it was Ben’s first day on the job. Well done Ben! However, I believed our plane must have some connection to the terrorist activity we witnessed upon take off. I thought very likely there could be a bomb on our plane. When Jim and Kate asked me what I thought was going on, I simply said I did not know. Sometimes the better part of valor is to remain quiet. I then sat quietly and reflected. I was fifty-two. My two daughters were grown and successful. My affairs were in order: I had no debt, some money in the bank and life insurance. I had lived a very productive life full of adventure and contribution. My only option at that point was to care for the people I was with. I turned to Jim and Kate and made small talk. I was not happy, but I was at peace. It was an extraordinary experience I think about often. After we landed in Dayton we discovered the reason for our dramatic maneuver while airborne was our pilot was avoiding a mid-air collision with flight 93, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania that day. Flight 93 took off from Newark airport following an east to west air corridor. Our flight fell in behind flight 93 which turned back toward us after being hijacked. The ultimate irony here is I had just ended my twenty year career as a Firefighter and Lieutenant with the New York City Fire Department. I had been an officer in charge of Engine Company 5 in Manhattan’s East Village and September 11, 2001 would have been my next work day had I not chosen to retire. The officer that replaced me was among my 343 colleagues killed that day.

@BrushettSuzanne Is that Chloe at the end??

@stcyresdofe Well done everyone! Teachers included!! 🤩🤩

Massive well done to this group of Yr9s who completed their Bronze Expedition today, along the Wye Valley Walk. Great effort by all 👍🏻👏🏻💪🏻#dofewales #stcyreschat

@WelshWestEnd Wonderful evening watching this talented bunch at #dinaspowysmusicfestival Bendigedig 👏🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@CyresSki Yay!!

We have snow 1st day hotel view 4th day view. #bringonthepowder ❄️🏔️🎿⛷️

Teletubbies on tour. 🎿👍🏻

@CyresSki Thanks for the updates 😊

Making progress. 🎿👍🏻

Well done Emily! ❤️Competing with the Synchro Caerdydd beginners team #teamcalon at The Steel City Trophy 2023! @stcyrespe @CyresYr8 @StCyresSchool

Fabulous first half 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎭🎭🎭#cyresmatilda

Book recommendation #hiroarikawa

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Happy Friday ☀️☀️#cheekypuppy #15weeks instagram.com/p/CgCXuS2Kd085…

@Angela_Griffin @HM_Passport Same thing happened with my daughters. This number takes you straight to the people who expedite it. There’s no onhold voice saying how many minutes but you have to listen to endless music. Eventually they picked up after leaving phone on hold for 2hours and we got it expedited!

Having finally got my “callback” from @HM_Passport I am on hold… I have been on hold for 25 mins. It’s in the middle of my working day.