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Snow arrives early

12:01pm Friday 14th December 2007

DUE to plentiful snowfalls and low temperatures ski resorts all over Austria have brought forward their winter openings by more than two weeks. In many areas there is already more than one metre of snow right down to the valley stations.

Sheffield steal

12:01pm Friday 14th December 2007

Superbreak (01904 444 455) offers b&b for £80 a person any day of the week at four-star Mercure St Paul's Hotel. Handy for attractions and Meadowhall Shopping Centre, until the end of February.

Festive singletons

12:00pm Friday 14th December 2007

THE Christmas and New Year brochure from singles holiday specialist Just You gives the option to spend Christmas, New Year or the entire festive season away from home with like-minded people.

The chain in Spain

11:59am Friday 14th December 2007

UK hotel chain Travelodge is to expand into Spain, opening 100 hotels and creating 2,000 new jobs by 2020, in a £700 million programme.

Over-50s just raring to go

11:59am Friday 14th December 2007

Today's over 50s look set to become some of the UK's most enthusiastic globetrotters over the next 10 years.

A British favourite

11:58am Friday 14th December 2007

THE island of Tenerife is a firm favourite with visitors from the UK and receives 45% of the total number of British tourists who holiday in the Canaries. So far in 2007 Tenerife has welcomed a total 1.3 million visitors to the island and enjoys a staggering 80% repeat clientele - 31.4% of them staying in five-star hotels.

Few are green travellers

11:57am Friday 14th December 2007

Most holidaymakers think international travel harms the environment, but few are prepared to change their own plans.

P&O seeks new cruise inspectors

11:57am Friday 14th December 2007

A carefully crafted sentence could win you a free cruise holiday in Summer 2008.

Light delights at top show

11:22am Friday 14th December 2007

October saw the International Caravan and Motorhome show at Birmingham's NEC.

Top-flight airline

2:18pm Monday 12th November 2007

Top German business magazine Capital has judged Austrian Airlines the Best Airline in Europe. Austrian Arrows was also in the top three regional carriers.


UK News

Brown visits troops in Afghanistan

Gordon Brown speaks to British troops in Camp Bastion

Updated 7:17pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Gordon Brown hailed British troops fighting the Taliban as the true heroes of the Olympic year.


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