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Severe disruptions to both road and rail services are set to throw this Bank Holiday weekend travel plans into chaos.
Millions of UK travellers are facing delays after a spate of recent roadworks were announced, along with five of the seven main railway lines throughout the country being cut by engineers for servicing. To compound the misery for those looking to get away for the weekend, the weather forecast is gloomy, with temperatures expected to fall to around 10 degrees Celsius. Frost warnings have even been issued to green thumbs planning on spending time in their gardens.
The train delays are by far [...]

The European Union has announced that it will be bringing to an end the restrictions which are currently in place to prevent airline passengers carrying liquids onto aircraft. Currently, passengers are only allowed to take liquids on board if they are in containers measuring no more than 100ml, and if the containers are visible in a clear plastic bag measuring no more than 20cm by 20cm.
The restrictions are due to come to an end by April 2013. The ban on liquids came into force in 2006 after British police uncovered a terrorist plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto transatlantic flights. [...]

China has announced that it is lifting the ban on anyone with HIV or Aids entering the country. The change in quarantine laws comes just days before the Shanghai World Expo is launched, an event the Chinese hope will attract around four million visitors from abroad.
Officially, the State Council said that the lifting of the ban was due to evidence that border control did very little to stop the spread of HIV. It also said that there is also a greater understanding of the disease in China now. The ban had lasted for  20 years. The cabinet also pointed out that enforcing [...]

An agreement is expected to be announced at the beginning of next week between United Airlines and Continental Airlines, which will result in the creation of the world’s largest airline. The proposed merger would mean that Delta Airlines, currently the world’s largest airline in terms of traffic, would be relegated to second place.
The boards of [...]

The Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc has announced a quarterly profit that has been hugely beyond estimates.
The excellent profits, coupled with the recent takeover announcement of the company by Hertz, has combined to lead Dollar Thrifty to reaffirm its positive outlook for the remainder of the year, a factor further strengthened by lower fleet costs and increasing demand.
Shares in Dollar Thrifty, which only this week agreed to the Hertz acquisition, hit a two-year high, reaching $43.60 per share – an increase of three per cent from the previous quarter. The result has led the group to forecast continued growth in the [...]

For the second time in just four months, the M60 around Manchester is to be dug up for repairs and maintenance, meaning further delays for motorists.
The six-mile length of the road, laid a decade ago, is to be resurfaced at the area around the Middleton junction 19 to junction 23 at Ashton-under-Lyne. In December last year, following the opening of a number of cracks in the road’s surface, the same stretch or road was placed under investigation by the Highways Agency. The new project is set to start on May 7 and is expected to continue until the end of [...]

In 2009, the big travel trend was the ‘staycation’, as the effects of the recession forced many people into stay-at-home vacations. Now, according to Avis Europe, 2010 will be the year of the so-called ‘experience holiday’. The reason for the declaration is a recent survey undertaken by the hire car company.
The study polled British travellers about their holiday plans for 2010, and discovered that over a third of all holidaymakers intended on taking a trip which was based around at least one activity, seemingly in a bid to make up for lost opportunities in 2009. Nearly 20 per cent of [...]

Travel agent, Thomas Cook, has announced that it will be guaranteeing more than one million holidays for next year’s summer, at the same price or lower than they are this year. Thomas Cook’s sister brand, Airtours, has also announced that it will be offering customers an early booking discount for 2011 if they make their booking before August 31st this year. Airtours claims that customers can make savings of up to £200 if they do so.
Thomas Cook said that although the programme of holidays for 2011 will be essentially the same as it is this year, they will be laying on more [...]

Britain’s nurses have called for new laws which would mean it would be illegal for anyone to get behind the wheel of a vehicle if they had consumed alcohol. At the moment, the limit in Britain is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. Speakers at the annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing [...]

Lufthansa is preparing to unveil its new first and business class cabins. The unveiling will take place next month, and Michael Oakey, an aircraft interior design expert, says that the carrier has gone for a contemporary design rather than something more flashy and futuristic. He said that the cabin interiors will bring to mind luxury cars and private jets.
Lufthansa is following the lead of both Air France and British Airways, who have decided that rather than cut back on their offerings to premium class passengers in the wake of the global economic meltdown, they will innovate. In February, British Airways [...]

The highly anticipated new East London Line, which forms a key part of the London Overground network, has been opened to the public.
This week will see a preview service, whereby eight trains will run every hour between Dalston junction and New Cross Gate. The service will operate from Monday to Friday between 0700 BST and 2000 BST.
Comprehensive weekend and evening services will start on the 23rd of May, at which point one dozen trains will run every hour. The train services will run across Whitechapel Station and also Shoreditch High Street, which has been earmarked as a flagship Zone 1 [...]

A new poster campaign launched by car hire firm, Sixt, could find the company in trouble with the French President and his wife. The ads have been launched to encourage customers to choose a Citroen C3 hatchback, one of Citroen’s smallest hatchbacks, as their next rental vehicle. However, the posters have raised more than a [...]