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EU's stance on H1N1
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31/07/09
The European Union has said airlines are unable to bar passengers with flu-like symptoms (which could ultimately be the human swine flu), unless they...
BA pulls its meals
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30/07/09
British Airways is to scrap its free meals, except breakfast, on short-haul flights in a bid to save £22 million a year. The airline has...
Typing error causes a long trip
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29/07/09
A simple spelling mistake has seen a Swedish couple miss their destination by about 400 miles after they mistakenly entered ‘Carpi’...
Immigration strike?
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28/07/09
Travellers could face major disruptions at airports and ports after a union body said that immigration officials working for the UK Border Agency had...
British Airways abandons Amsterdam
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27/07/09
British Airways subsidiary OpenSkies has announced its intention to cease its all-business class service between New York and Amsterdam which...
Gatwick airport temporarily closed
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24/07/09
The airport is closed until further notice (24 July 1.24pm) due to an emergency landing by a Flybe jet. All the passengers have been safely evacuated.
BA union talks break down
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24/07/09
British Airways last night issued a statement confirming that it’s failed to come to an agreement with the Unite union which represents cabin...
American Airways costly mistake
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23/07/09
Someone at American Airlines is in big trouble after the nosewheel of one of the carrier’s 767s was accidentally retracted while the plane was...
Backpacker found alive
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22/07/09
There are reports that British backpacker Jamie Neale has been found by hikers in Australia’s Blue Mountains after going missing for 12...
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Six of world's best wild-water swims
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Mexico Can’t do cold water? Then the Sea of Cortes should tick your boxes; the average temperature in the briny here is 25C . You will be based on Espiritu Santo island in Baja California, and the swimming during the week-long trip (about 6km each day) is along beaches and through coves and bays where you may be an object of curiosity for inquisitive sea lions.
20 best seaside villas in Europe
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1 Eco Fisherman’s Cottage, Lanzarote, Spain This solar-powered fisherman’s cottage on the seafront in the pretty fishing village of Arrieta, northeast Lanzarote, is a stone’s throw from a sandy cove. It sleeps two adults and two children, and has been lovingly converted: wood furniture, cream throws, plants and paintings, a fully fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and lounge opening out on to the promenade. The balcony has superb sea views and the shaded courtyard is perfect for alfresco dining. There are good coastal walking and cycling trails from the doorstep, and the mountain village of Haria is just a short drive away.
If it’s good enough for Keats...
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Iquestion if there be a room in England which commands a view of mountains and lakes and woods superior to that in which I am now writing.” If you read that in a holiday-home company’s blurb, you might dismiss it as a touch flowery. But when you learnt that the copywriter was a Mr Coleridge, you’d sit up and take notice. You might even want to stay there. And you can.
The forgotten islands off Sweden’s coast
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Karin Holmstrom lives at the ends of the earth, but it’s easy enough to pay her a visit. Just give some kroner to a boatman in the village of Fjällbacka on the west coast of Sweden and he’ll run you 12 miles (20km) out to sea to a place where water and sky are broken by low, bare rocks that seem to inhabit the middle of nowhere. On one of these stark, treeless outposts, waiting to greet you at a little wooden jetty, is Karin.
Where Raymond Blanc eats on holiday
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I have always said that food is the best healer. So when I smashed my leg in five places by falling down my stairs in March, I knew that I needed to find an hotel with a great restaurant where I could convalesce. Naturally, I thought that France would be the best antidote to melancholy and the Provençal spring sun the best provider of vitamin D.
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