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BA strike ballot postponed
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28/06/10
The planned strike ballot by British Airways cabin crew - due to start on Tuesday - has been postponed following a new offer to staff from the...
BA to recruit more cabin crew
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25/06/10
British Airways has announced plans to recruit an extra 1,250 staff on lower wages to help soften further strike blows. New staff members would make...
Harry Potter park opens
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24/06/10
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort opened last week after 5 years of construction. Stars of the film attended...
Unite plans third BA strike ballot
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24/06/10
Unite is expected to launch a third industrial strike against British Airways today as it prepares to take a fresh ballot. If cabin crew decide to...
Vueling launches Scotland-Spain route
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24/06/10
Low-fare airline Vueling commences its new direct route from Edinburgh to Barcelona on Wednesday. The service will operate thrice weekly until 12...
England match packages still available
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18/06/10
Thomas Cook Sport has sold out its packages to see England in the group stages but has now launched a new Follow England Round of 16 package. It...
Playstation Portables on Thomas Cook Airlines
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15/06/10
Thomas Cook Airlines has introduced individual Playstation Portables (PSPs) on its short and medium-haul flights. The consoles will be available to...
BA and Unite table new proposals
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14/06/10
As strikes have come to an end, Acas has revealed that British Airways and Unite have offered fresh proposals in order to settle the on-going dispute...
Emirates to show World Cup games onboard and in airports
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11/06/10
Emirates will be broadcasting World Cup games in airports worldwide and aboard its flights . The airlines ICE entertainment system will feature...
EasyJet Hopes Ash Cloud Radar Will Take Off!!
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09/06/10
A new system to detect ash clouds has been approved for testing.
Budget airline easyJet will be the first to trial a new "weather radar for ash...
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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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