21st February 2012

Government to stop kids term time holidays

The government is mulling over plans to penalise parents who take school-age children on holidays during the term. Holiday destinations abroad are a lot cheaper outside school holiday times, with a family of four able to cut up to 40 per cent off the p…

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21st February 2012

BA says many luggage items go unused

A new report commissioned by British Airways has suggested that many items brought on holiday are never used. The study, conducted by Opinion Matters, showed that around 90 per cent of British holidaymakers never use 30 per cent of the things they take…

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21st February 2012

Free pensioner bus travel facing the axe

A UK think-tank organisation has stated that free bus-passes for pensioners should be scrapped as they contributed nothing worthwhile to the country’s economy. The Social Market Foundation (SMF) said doing away with the travel passes for OAPs would c…

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21st February 2012

£9 million airport IRIS scanner scheme scrapped

The UK Border Agency is doing away with the Iris Recognition Immigration System (IRIS). The agency said this week that the £9 million program has already been closed at Manchester and Birmingham airports and that it will be decommissioned at Heathrow …

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