The low fair airliner EasyJet has transported one ton of volcano ash from Eyjafjallajökll volcano to UK from Iceland. The propose for doing this is to test jet engines against the volcano ash and too see what type of damage they do, two jets from Airbus are going to be used.
This news was reported by Rúv and can be read here below. It was also reported by ITV in English and that can be found here below.
Tonn af ösku flutt til Bretlands (Rúv.is)
Fluttu tonn af ösku frá Íslandi (mbl.is)
Tonne of ash to be used in flight test (ITV News)
Another interesting news http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2013/05/06/hamfaragos_skrad_i_arhringi_fornskogar/ also a bit about this in the TV-news last night
and just now there is a swarm at Reykjanes