The San Sebastian Film Festival awarded O Corno (The Rye Horn) with the Golden Shell for Best Film. San Sebastián native Jaione Camborda took the top prize of the night for the feature she directed.
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A heavily-pregnant holidaymaker says she was thrown off an easyJet flight after being labelled "abusive". Siobhan Foster was travelling to Ibiza for her brother's wedding while seven months pregnant.
The Belfast mum was with her husband and her daughter as they tried to reach the Spanish party island. But she says trouble soon began after asking for help.
Siobhan says she noticed a "grumpy look" from the flight attendant when the family went to their seats, the Daily Star reports. And after drama unfolded, Siobhan insists she will "never" fly with the airline again.
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In a post on Facebook, the mum alleges that the issues began when her husband, James, asked whether there was more space in the overhead lockers. Siobhan claims the crew member snapped at the family and when asked for help finding room was told "need to find somewhere yourself".
Siobhan claimed: "I said ‘can you please help me I’m heavily pregnant and my husband has our daughter. Her response was ‘you’re being abusive and its not my job to help you’.
"Then another air hostess an older lady approached me to say look this isn’t our job to help. I said any other airline I’ve flown with have been more than helpful with me as I’m pregnant etc so of course then she said I was abusive.
"Writing this I understand it would make you think well, was I being abusive, but I honestly wasn’t and the whole plane can vouch for me." Siobhan claims she was "in shock" and in "no way shape or form aggressive".
The mum then found somewhere to put her bag and loaded it into the locker herself. She added: "I found somewhere for the bag put it up myself, I sat down the next minute two
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