The company has previously cited financial factors and the post-Brexit border situation as reasons for the Kent services not being immediately restored.
Lia's Wings, a charity that flies home critically-ill children, eventually stepped in and organised the flight they needed.Sienna-Rose and Natasha finally returned on Saturday night and she was transferred to Alder Hey, where the family were greeted by a crowd of well-wishers.
"I just felt my legs give way," Natasha said."Even now, I'm so grateful but I'm finding it hard to come to terms with what we've been through."You don't ever think in your life that you're going to go through something like that."
A new training centre aimed at reducing the shortage of trained midwives has been officially opened.Bournemouth University's new Portsmouth Midwifery Campus will teach about 80 students for placements at hospital trusts in Berkshire, Chichester, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
The university said the campus at Lakeside, North Harbour, has the latest facilities and equipment and to give student midwives "all they need to succeed in their future careers".
England has a shortage of about 2,500 midwives."[On] Sunday morning, we actually drove down here after all the trees had come down overnight, trying to find a route to get to the rowing club to save our boats, because we knew the flood was coming."
Many have to get into river water to secure the equipment again when water levels recede, which Mr Plant said presented a health risk."What we're left with now after the flood... is all the waste from the river that's been brought up," he said.
The River Severn in Ironbridge was given bathing status earlier in 2024, however its most recent classification by the Environment Agency rated the water as poor, and not suitable for bathing.Medics have used a novel way to design a prosthetic eye for a baby girl who had a rare form of cancer.