Cancer group 'devastated' by airport's change of heart

A Manx charity says it's devastated after Liverpool Airport changed its mind over a quiet waiting room for Manx patients.

The Manx Breast Cancer Support Group had been given the go-ahead to create a quiet room next to the airport's prayer room.

Julie Stokes, the chair of the group, says it was a way of providing a calmer space for those undergoing traumatic and upsetting treatment in the UK.

But after the airport announced this week it wouldn't provide the room, she's hoping the Department of Health and Social Care will step in: