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Hotels in Malia, Crete, Saying ‘No’ to Rowdy Foreign TouristsHotel owners in Malia, northeastern Crete, have said they are not accepting some 10,000 bookings from the UK in an effort to repair a tainted reputation due to the thousands of mostly British tourists who flock to island bars and clubs every summer and drink till they drop. The hoteliers are aiming to replace the lost bookings from rowdy Brits with reservations made by families from Netherlands, Germany and Austria.According to media reports, the majority of Malia’s hotels will stop offering 18-30 holiday group package deals, which will inevitably take a bite out of an estimated 6 million hotel and resort bookings a year, mainly from UK operators.“We’ve given these tour operators a free hand in branding an image completely alien to what Malia really is. Malia isn’t about sex, drugs and ‘everything goes’. It’s the prime tourist destination in Crete, bringing in millions of euros to the island,” Malia Deputy Mayor Efthymios Moutrakis was reported as telling The Times.
Varoufakis slams Tsipras in interview with German newspaperYanis Varoufakis has lashed out again at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, describing him as one who “signs whatever [German Finance Minister Wolfgang] Schaeuble and others bring to him.”
Greek ports cannot cope with trafficThis summer is turning out to be something of a stress test for Greek island ports, as well as passengers’ nerves.The problem is more acute this summer with the increase in tourism and the ever growing competition between ferry companies vying for the biggest possible market share. The result is major delays at ports when two or three big ships arrive to dock at almost the same time. The ports’ inability to simultaneously cater to more than one vessel forces ships to wait offshore for the other to dock first.
Huge network of tunnels discovered under Primark store in KentPassages are thought to have been used by the military but Government says it has 'no information' on them
Ken Wilkinson: One of last surviving Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots dies aged 99At the outbreak of war he was selected for the Royal Air Force and chosen to fly a Spitfire.Assigned to 616 and 19 Squadrons in East Anglia, he was among the brave airmen whose role was to protect industrial targets in the Midlands from the Luftwaffe.In a 2015 interview for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, he said: "I didn't carry any lucky charms, but I did wear a pair of my wife's knickers around my neck."
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Lidl and Nando's chicken supplier leaves deformed birds to die slowly on Taunton farmA live chick was placed in a bucket of dead birds. It took an hour to dieA chicken producer that supplies Asda, Lidl and Nando’s allegedly breached animal welfare laws after hidden cameras discovered deformed and ill birds, left to die in a slow and painful condition.
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QuoteHuge network of tunnels discovered under Primark store in KentPassages are thought to have been used by the military but Government says it has 'no information' on themhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/primark-kent-thanet-tunnels-network-mystery-second-world-war-thanet-hidden-history-a7871141.html
Android users: beware ‘Invisible Man’ malware disguised as FlashAndroid users (OK, all users) are well advised to give Flash a wide berth in any case. If you really, really need it on your phone you should only download the Flash player by following Adobe’s instructions for manually installing Flash on Android.
Human embryos edited to stop diseaseScientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families.It potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 disorders that are passed down the generations.The US and South Korean team allowed the embryos to develop for five days before stopping the experiment.The study hints at the future of medicine, but also provokes deep questions about what is morally right.
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Two sunbathers killed, including 8-year-old girl, in plane crash on Portugal beachThe light plane made an emergency landing on the beach near Lisbon, killing the girl and a 50-year-old man.
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