MP 'regrets' memorial service tweet

16 April 2014 Last updated at 09:27 Employment minister Esther McVey tweeted an apology on Twitter just after 19:00 GMT on Tuesday The Conservative minister Esther McVey has apologised for tweeting an attack on the Labour Party during the Hillsborough memorial service.

The MP for Wirral West tweeted a link to a press release and said: "Wirral Labour can't be trusted" at 15:51 GMT on Tuesday.

Posts on the social media site claimed the timing showed a lack of respect.

The MP later tweeted: "Really regret the mistiming of local election press release. Apologies."

A Conservative Party spokesman said Ms McVey had tweeted an apology and it would not comment further. Ms McVey did not attend the memorial service.

The memorial service for the 96 people who died in the tragedy was held at Anfield on Tuesday afternoon.

Relatives of those who died, as well as fans, players and club officials were among the 24,000 who attended.

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US Airways apologises for porn tweet

15 April 2014 Last updated at 11:27 The company has more than 420,000 followers on its Twitter account US Airways has apologised after an explicit photo was sent from its official Twitter account in response to a customer complaint.

It said in a statement that it was trying to flag the image as inappropriate but instead mistakenly included it in a message.

The tweet was deleted after approximately an hour but not before it had been retweeted hundreds of times.

The airline said it regretted the error and was reviewing its processes.

The image, which featured a naked woman and a toy plane, had originally been sent to the company's Twitter account by another user, it said.

It was then attached to a tweet that was sent to a US Airways customer who had taken to the social network to express her frustration that her flight was delayed.

Once the mistake had been realised US Airways deleted the offending tweet and issued an apology.

"We apologise for an inappropriate image recently shared as a link in one of our responses. We've removed the tweet and are investigating," it said on its Twitter feed.

The company has more than 420,000 followers on its Twitter account and has not tweeted since.

The airline issued this apology on its Twitter feed

US Airways is merged with American Airlines, who were also caught up in a Twitter controversy on Monday after a 14-year old Dutch girl sent a tweet to the airline implying she was part of al-Qaeda group and planning an attack.

American Airlines responded via Twitter saying that her details would be passed to the FBI for investigation.

Both tweets have now been deleted and the girl's Twitter account has been suspended.

Dutch police said that Twitter had disclosed to them the internet address that the tweet was written from and that they had questioned a 14-year-old girl who had now been released pending further enquiries.

However, other copycat tweets now appear to be being sent to American Airlines from other teenagers' Twitter accounts, according to the Washington Post.