内容摘要：Shelly said she felt the missed opportunities in Calocane's care mirrored her son's experience.

Shelly said she felt the missed opportunities in Calocane's care mirrored her son's experience.

He said: "One of them was a really older gentleman so, for him, it would have been a hell of a long day."When we were collecting the baggage from the baggage carousel, he shed a tear.

"That upset me a lot."Mr Thompson is still waiting for the results of his PET scan and biopsy.Four days after Mr Thompson's flight to Southampton was cancelled, Annette Jackson, travelling to get treatment for a degenerative eye condition, had a similar experience.

She was booked on a 15:00 BST flight the afternoon before an appointment in Southampton when her flight was cancelled. She was put on a flight scheduled to leave three hours later, but it was delayed until 20:30 BST."I got to Southampton at 10 o'clock at night when I should have been there at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, very tired, very exhausted," she said.

Mrs Jackson said Blue Islands claimed the flight was cancelled because of technical issues.

"They'd shoved us all on to the later flight, which was full and the same coming back," she said., entering circulation in 1793.

But over the past 10 years, the cost of producing it has risen from 1.3 cents to 3.69 cents per coin, according to the Treasury.The Mint estimates that stopping production will result in an immediate annual saving of $56m (£42m) in reduced material costs.

Critics of the zinc and copper coin say producing it is a waste of money and resources, while those who want to keep it argue it keeps prices lower and boosts fund-raising for charities.The phasing out of the coins will mean businesses will need to round prices up or down,