Stranded Moyles beats the flights ban

The Leeds-born presenter, who has been unable to return to the UK following a US holiday, will host the show live from a studio in the Big Apple while his team are in London.

Moyles missed his show yesterday because he was stranded in New York, and colleague Scott Mills had to sit in for him.

Moyles said: "It's brilliant. I'm so pleased I can get on the air. I'll have to sleep in the evening, then get up at midnight and be on air 1.30am New York time – but it'll be worth it."

Meanwhile, eventing star Oliver Townend has embarked on a marathon journey to fly to the US to grab one of the sport's most coveted prizes.

The star, the son of a Huddersfield milkman, has joined tens of thousands of Britons battling to beat the air travel ban.

He left his Shropshire base on Sunday and caught a train to London, where he boarded a Paris-bound Eurostar.

From there he took a taxi to Madrid with the aim of boarding a US-bound flight yesterday to Florida, leaving him a 1,000-mile journey by car to his destination in Kentucky. He is bidding to win consecutive Badminton, Burghley and Kentucky competitions, which would see him complete a feat only achieved once before.

"My entire career has been building up to a moment like this and I am not going to let it slip away just because of a volcano in Iceland."

Conductor Tobias Ringborg took 24 hours to travel from Sweden to Leeds for rehearsals ahead of Opera North's opening night of La Boheme on May 4. He took trains, taxis, a ferry and car journeys but arrived yesterday with time to spare.