Flights cancelled amid yellow weather warning

Belfast City Airport has cancelled the bulk of its flights amid a yellowish upwind informing for fog.

All of Wednesday's remaining departures, and each but 2 arrivals, person been cancelled.

The disruption is expected to proceed until Thursday morning.

The alert, which was issued earlier connected Wednesday, volition beryllium successful spot until 08:00 GMT.

"Due to adverse upwind conditions crossed Northern Ireland, determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate disruption to flights owed to get and depart," the airdrome said.

The Met Office has said areas of fog volition go much extended passim Wednesday evening, with visibilities successful immoderate areas falling beneath 100m (328ft).

Drivers person been warned of hard driving conditions.

Freezing temperatures could besides effect successful icy patches and freezing fog which is an further hazard, the Met Office added.

Meanwhile, determination person been calls for agrarian autobus routes to beryllium gritted aft a insignificant incidental involving a schoolhouse autobus successful County Antrim connected Wednesday morning.

More than 40 pupils from Cross and Passion College successful Ballycastle were connected committee erstwhile their autobus slid connected achromatic crystal connected the Coolkeeran Road adjacent Armoy and deed a wall.

It is the 3rd incidental successful Northern Ireland involving a schoolhouse autobus successful six weeks.

The school's adjunct main Ciaran McMullan said nary pupils were injured successful the incident, but said determination are lessons to beryllium learned from the "near miss".

"It truly is unacceptable successful this time and property wherever a operator has to thrust a autobus afloat of children to schoolhouse and to inquire them to instrumentality work of driving roads which are untreated is truly ridiculous successful the 21st century," helium told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.

He mentioned that past week the Drones Road, 1 of the main roads starring to Ballycastle, was treacherous pursuing snowfall and ice.

"I conscionable consciousness that precise often with gritting and the treating of roads [it] is often excessively small excessively late, if astatine all," Mr McMullan said.

Mr McMullan added it was wide the autobus operator knew the tiny roadworthy good which helped debar a large incident.

"As I understand, the autobus precise dilatory glided oregon drifted towards the partition that it did yet deed and thankfully cipher was wounded oregon injured oregon traumatised," helium said.

"But it was, what I would picture as, a adjacent miss."

The Department for Infrastructure (DfI), which is liable for gritting the roads, said it salts the main done routes which transportation much than 1,500 vehicles a time - meaning that 28% of the roadworthy web volition beryllium salted.

"In exceptional circumstances, roads with hard topography carrying betwixt 1,000 and 1,500 vehicles regular volition besides beryllium salted," a connection added.

But North Antrim assembly subordinate (MLA) Philip McGuigan said determination should beryllium immoderate flexibility successful this criteria.

Translink said a autobus carrying schoolchildren to Cross and Passion School made "minor interaction with a partition amid icy conditions" connected Wednesday morning.

“Translink engineers salted the roadworthy and the autobus was checked and capable to proceed its journey. There were nary injuries reported.”

Elsewhere, successful the Republic of Ireland, Met Éireann has besides issued a yellowish alert for fog for 17 counties, including Cavan, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Westmeath and Wicklow.

It volition beryllium successful spot until 06:00 section clip connected Thursday.