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Wednesday May 25, 2011 04:05:58 PM

Northern Germany airspace closes (25 May 2011)

Germany is closing its northern airspace on Wednesday because of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland, officials say.

Bremen and Hamburg airports closed early on Wednesday, with traffic at Berlin's airports due to stop later.

Air traffic in Norway and Denmark has been disrupted but flights were expected to resume across the UK after some airspace in the north was closed.

Services in and out of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England had been badly hit, with about 500 flights cancelled across Europe.

Europe's air traffic control body Eurocontrol said no flights were expected on Wednesday at Bremen and Hamburg airports. The ash cloud is expected to affect Berlin from 1100 (0900GMT). Lufthansa, the national carrier, said it expected a total of 150 of its flights to be cancelled.

France's civil aviation authority has said it expects very little disruption to air traffic and was not expecting to close any of the country's airspace.