Manchester is soon to become the first airport outside London to offer direct flights to Iraq, with one airline ready to launch two routes to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in the north of the country.

Gala had attempted to hide the drugs – which have an estimated street value of around £175,000 – within the outer panels of his suitcase.

A flight attendant who led a tax evasion gang that smuggled £180,000-worth of cigarettes through airports has been jailed for 21 months.

The sophisticated scanner can pick out weapons in a crowd

Manchester Airport handled more than 2.2million passengers in September

Muhammad Shafiq Khan was jailed for eight years

Border officers made the discovery on Tuesday

Launch was attended by entire first-team squad

Incident involves PIA passenger plane

First flight to Greek capital is on Saturday

Systems will radically change airport security.