Where is john smeaton now

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This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages. Play Video. Smeaton is now a supervisor, working four days on and two off, two of his shifts lasting until 11pm or later if planes are delayed.

He will go back in the hold if one of his charges calls in sick. I've seen people take lengths of wood with them. And don't even get me started about golfers - I'm sure they're very nice guys, but do you really think I'm going to lift your golfclubs? I really hate it. Skis are a lot easier - you can manipulate them and pivot them. But golf clubs - there are 40 or 50 sets to deal with on some flights. And the hold of the aircraft isn't big enough to take them, and you're thinking, "Right, whose clubs are going to miss [the flight]?

I'm sorry, but someone's going to get over to Malaga without their clubs. I ask him about missing bags. There's probably someone who's going, "Oh, they're around the corner from me, they're away on holiday, well, I might have a wee chat with I said, "Rab, you hear that, a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. When things like that happen, you have to work harder. People are having to work hour shifts, and they don't get any thanks for it.

Was he nervous about handling people's bags after the attack? It never entered my wildest dreams that anyone would want to attack Glasgow airport. It was the other side of the world - it would never happen here.

The following morning I visit Smeaton at his house he used to live with a girlfriend, but the relationship broke up a few weeks before he became famous. We are going to the airport together, but he isn't going to work.

Instead, he is travelling to the Pride of Britain Awards in London with his fellow heroes. He greets me in good spirits, but as he drinks tea on the sofa his mood changes, and he puts his head in his hands. I've run about the last six or seven weeks and I'm exhausted - you know, give me back my quiet, mundane, ordinary life. Now it's "go here, do this". I have said no to a lot of things. All I really want to do is sleep in my own bed.

I'd be paying people to lift my bags for me. His parents, who are retired his mother works occasionally as a locum express pride in their son, but they can see he is feeling the strain. His father drives us to the airport, and on the way Smeaton talks about past trips to London and beyond, necessitated by his new fame.

Before July he had only visited London once. In the past few weeks he has travelled down for interviews with Richard and Judy and Lorraine Kelly, and to meet Gordon Brown.

Come with me. He wanted to know about me, what my mother and father did, how I got to be doing what I was doing, and what happened that day. He was really taking it in, and I'm not a fan of politicians, but I was really impressed by him.

Maybe he's not got the charisma of Alex Salmond, but they're two very good leaders. After 15 minutes, Brown offered to give Smeaton a tour. They visited the cabinet room, and met David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.

Smeaton remembers saying to his mother on the way back to the airport, 'Just unbelievable! These are the guys I've seen on telly. But there was more to come. Smeaton met the Prime Minister again towards the end of September at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, where he thought he had just been invited as a guest.

Early in his speech, Brown said: 'When the terrorists tried to attack Scotland's biggest airport, they were answered by the courage of the police and the firefighters - and a baggage handler named John Smeaton. He came to the aid of a policeman under assault from one of the terrorists. That man, that hero, John Smeaton is here with us today - and on behalf of our country I want to thank you. You go down in history. And then it was New York.

He met the president of the Scottish-American Society, ate a huge, huge steak, shook the hands of fire chiefs and visited Ground Zero. In SoHo, he went to a restaurant called Balthazar, where he was introduced to the Hiltons, the hotel heirs and real estate mavens, Paris's mum and dad. If you continue without changing your cookie settings we assume that you are happy with our use of cookies.

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