Leeds/Bradford Airport.

A furious holidaymaker has condemned airport security staff after his child's tennis rackets were confiscated and destroyed for being potentially 'lethal weapons'.

Richard Chew was flying to the holiday island of Majorca with his nine-year-old stepson Will when they were forced to hand over the rackets.
Mr Chew, a 46-year-old PR, was stopped at Leeds Bradford Airport because of the alleged threat to other passengers as he travelled to see Will's mother, Vicky Locklin, in Spain.

First of all - the award of a LoonyTunesWatch Coconut to this wretched airport.
Now, as a regular passenger through this appalling place let me list a few of my complaints:
Insufficient seating in lounges.
Payment required to drop off passengers.
Payment required to use the trollies.
Trays for personal effects whilst going through security - have been filthy and coated in grease.
Escalators frequently not working.
On the penultimate occasion I went through - insufficient open toilets!
Interminable queues and cattle class treatment.
All of this without the overweening attitudes of the said security staff.

The only good thing is nothing to do with the airport at all. Only half a mile away is the exquisite Murgatroyds fish restaurant!

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