Gatwick flights cancelled and Tube hit with delays as great summer getaway begins – latest news

Travel nightmares have already begun as school summer holidays get under way.

Transport networks across the UK are already feeling the strain as the school summer holidays get underway.

Flights have been cancelled and delayed at London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports, while disruption has also hit rail networks across the capital.

The RAC predicts holidaymakers will make 2,400,000 getaway trips by car on Tuesday alone.

It comes days after the global Crowdstrike IT outage plunged millions of computers into darkness, paralysing hospitals, airlines, GPs and media organisations.

Elsewhere, there are severe delays on the Tube and part of the Overground after a points failure stopped all trains between Stratford, Richmond and Clapham Junction.

The London Overground continues to be partly suspended, with no service between Chingford and Hackney Downs until at least August 4.