Travellers told to pay for fuel or get off plane

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A flight by Austrian-registered Comtel Air was held on the tarmac in Vienna for six hours on a flight between Birmingham Airport and Amritsar in India. The 180 passengers were essentially “held to ransom” having to hand over hundreds of dollars in pounds or euros each because there was no money to pay for fuel to finish the journey. Around £20,000 was needed to complete the trip and those who could not or would not pay were escorted off the plane. Some passengers are apparently still stranded in Vienna.

Natalie Wood charmed a nation in 1947

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Full name: Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko )
DOB: July 20th 1938
DOD: November 29th 1981
Where born: Santa Catalina Island, California, USA.

Forgive us, but it seems seedy that a police investigation should be “re-opened” because somebody wrote a book that has no new information in it. But hey, that ‘s Hollywood. Better by far, we think to recall the story of Natalie Wood’s charming entry into movie stardom in the 1947 classic, Miracle on 34th Street. Here is much of the tale from the website Christmas Movies. By the time of her tragic death at the age of 43, Natalie Wood was one of the world’s foremost actors. Born in California to Russian parents, Natalie’s introduction to acting and the cinema came early. Before she had even turned five, Natalie made an appearance, albeit a very short one, in the 1943 film Happy Land. When she was seven Natalie appeared in Tomorrow is Forever, drawing plaudits from the star of the film, the great actor Orson Welles. Natalie’s mother Maria proved to be the driving force in the child star’s career. And her decision to sign up her daughter to 20th Century Fox proved fortuitous. Fox handed Natalie Wood her first ever starring role, as six-year-old Susan Gailey in the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street.

Yonge Street tree lighting November 26

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The Rosedale Main Street Business Improvement Association will again mark the lighting of the 50-foot Christmas tree near the LCBO on Saturday, November 26 with various festivities as part of Toronto’s Cavalcade of Lights festival. That’s the 2005 tree inset at left. The event takes place from 2 to 6 p.m.In case you are wondering about the association, they are the people who defied geography to declare Yonge Street around Yonge and Roxborough as”Rosedale’s Main Street.”

New logo just degrees different from original

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It’s different, but boy, not by much. That’s the new Blue Jays logo at left. It’s the club emblem we’ll be seeing everywhere in the new season and by the way, this team is now the Blue Jays, not the Jays. Okay? Look closely at the flashback (right) from the South Bayview Bulldog from September. The blue background logo was the speculative “new logo”. It sported a redrawn beak on the bird. That beak made the cut and was adopted for the new bird and actually looks a lot more bird-like than the original on the right. That beak looks like a pair of kid’s scissors. But apart from that, and the strong blue circle around the whole thing, the new logo is really the old one.