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SUNTRAP: The Villa Verde

2:31pm Monday 18th August 2008

MARK TEMPLETON visits Fuerteventura for a luxury break in the sun after a chance find on the internet IT'S always a big gamble booking your holiday independently instead of going with one of the major holiday firms.

Awesome audience with kings of the ocean

12:02pm Friday 14th December 2007

It may be a decadent way to answer the call of the wild, but with budget airlines now flying to the east coast of Canada, TRACEY DAVIES decided to go and search for whales in the St Lawrence River, in the French province of Quebec.

Fashion, fizz, fun – and a day off for all

11:49am Friday 14th December 2007

Glamorous outfits, champagne, and prize money of AU$5.1million up for grabs - I could only be at the celebrated Melbourne Cup in Australia, one of the world's greatest sporting events.

How about Paris for the weekend?

11:17am Friday 14th December 2007

As Christmas looms, let the holiday specialists at AITO (www.aito.co.uk) help you with gift ideas.

Everything you need for great family break

11:15am Friday 14th December 2007

There's no better base to stay in Egypt than First Choice's Holiday Village Red Sea.

Bridge to Sweden a true cultural connection

2:29pm Monday 12th November 2007

THE Oresund Bridge is a remarkable feat of engineering which opened seven years ago. It connects one of the world's great capitals by road and rail with the charming Swedish city of Malmö .

Magnificent land time (almost) forgot

EARNING EXTRA SOLS: A market trader's daughter in the Andean highlands posES for visitors

2:23pm Monday 12th November 2007

It was the moment I had always dreaded - and yet somehow half-expected.

Spanish want to raze coastal homes

2:21pm Monday 12th November 2007

Plans to demolish holiday homes in Spain sparked a row - and uncertainty for Britons who own homes there.

Rooms for a tenner

2:21pm Monday 12th November 2007

Hotelopia, online hotel booking specialist, has launched thousands of room nights at £10 and £15 or less per person for the entire month of November, in favourite and coastal destinations including Mallorca, Algarve, the Costa del Sol, and the Greek Islands.

Spice Girls offer

2:20pm Monday 12th November 2007

DERTOUR (0870 403 5442) has a Spice Girls offer - two nights in the five-star Intercontinental Hotel from December 20-22 for £299, incl flights from Stansted and concert tickets. Book by November 30.


UK News

Man guilty of replica gun offences

A man converted replica submachine guns into weapons, a court heard

Updated 10:27pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

A man has been found guilty of converting replica submachine guns into lethal weapons which were later used in some of Britain's most notorious crimes, including eight murders.


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