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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 [...]