UK air traffic control: Sleeping on a freezing cold floor and heart medication running out

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UK air traffic control: Sleeping on a freezing cold floor and heart medication running out
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'I have never felt so helpless. Been awake for 22 hours. We've now spent 14 hours in the airport,' one reader says, after hundreds of flights have been cancelled or delayed in the aftermath of a network-wide NATS outage, leaving people stranded and unable to get home.

It is"freezing" and"we are trying to get some sleep on the cold floor", one Sky News reader told us.

Vicki Ostrowski emailed to say she was stuck in Oslo with a"disabled, wheelchair bound passenger with a neurological disease, an 83-year-old frail relative, plus three other family members". Their original flight was at 4.55pm on Monday. She and her group of six have spent £1,000 on hotels for two nights.

"There are children lying on the cold floor, people making public speeches about the airline and it is sheer pandemonium.

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