Posted on September 07, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia London commuters have every right to be extra grumpy this morning.  Their underground network is a mess, following 24-hour strikes that have shut down some lines and caused severe disruption to others. The strikes by members of the RMT and TSSA unions failed to bring the system to a complete halt however. Nice to [...]

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Heading to London this autumn? Hope you’ve booked your London car hire! The city looks set to come to a standstill if  the first of a series of strikes by Rail Maritime and Transport union and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association go ahead on September 6. Operations will also be suspended on October 3, [...]

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by toastmonster via Flickr The perma-tanned, plummy accented one spent the best part of three decades lighting up our living rooms with tales of lobster lunches and champagne cruises in far flung, sun-bleached islands like St Lucia and Antigua. In the days before extreme travel shows like Bear Grylls, holiday programming was less about [...]

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Guest blogger Isabel Clift wants you to leave your London car hire at your hotel for the day and laze away a sunny afternoon in one of London’s top outdoor terraces. It seems the whole of London legs it outside when the sun shines – so where’s the best place to go to enjoy a balmy evening [...]

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via CrunchBase Tree huggers unite! Paper boarding passes are on their way out.  In just a short time from now, passengers will be using their mobile phones to board an aircraft, with the device being read by a scanner at the departure gate. The new system means passengers will no longer have to go [...]

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Michael O’ Leary was yesterday forced to utter an apology to Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet for accusing him of being a liar in a series of print advertisements for Ryanair. You can’t blame Stelios for being annoyed – you would be too if you were portrayed with an elongated nose [...]