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'Best whisky in the world' prize won by Japanese malt for first time as Scottish distilleries lose outTo add insult to injury an English malt was awarded best European whisky
An increase in pre-bookings from the United Kingdom to Greece for 2015 has been recorded, following a 16 percent increase in arrivals and a 20 percent rise in revenues in 2014, compared to 2013, Andreadis Andreadis, president of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), said.
For 2015, TUI, which provides travel accommodation to some 2.4 million visitors from European markets, aims to increase bookings to Greece, particularly in view of the extended tourist season.According to TCG, plans with Greece include investing in online marketing tools and modern digital communication.
A British student accused of stabbing a fellow British tourist to death on his 19th birthday last summer in Crete has been acquitted of murder by a court on the island.Tyrell Matthews-Burton, who was on his first holiday away from his mother and younger sister, was fatally knifed in the popular resort of Malia outside a club on 23 July 2013 after about 30 holidaymakers, all British nationals but belonging to different groups, started a brawl.
In 2013, 122.6 million people, or 24.5% of the population, in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Electrical specialist ordered to work for free for six months after paid contract with firm ends A man has been ordered to work for a company for six months for no pay by the Department of Work and Pensions – despite the fact his contract with the firm had ended.Electronics specialist John McArthur, 59, is surviving on 16p tins of spaghetti and doing without heating, after having his state benefits cut for refusing to work unpaid for a company which had formerly paid him the minimum wage.
A Swedish security researcher has turned up a serious vulnerability in [Apple Mac] OS X “Yosemite”, but details are to be withheld until January, giving Apple time to prepare a patch.
Overtime should count in holiday pay, landmark tribunal hearing rulesMillions of workers could now have their holiday pay recalculated to take into account overtime
Giant fatberg forms in sewers beneath Government buildings in WhitehallWhitehall mandarins have unknowingly been sitting on a giant “fatberg” of congealed slime embedded with condoms, sanitary products and faeces.Technicians from Thames Water have been sent in to clear the colossal blockage in a sewer beneath some of London’s most prestigious streets.It was caused by fat clinging to wet wipes in the two-metre high tunnel, eventually congealing to form a foul-smelling solid mass.Thames Water spends approximately £1 million a month clearing fatbergs and blockages, dealing with 55,000 a year.Earlier this year, another fatberg the size of a Boeing 747 was discovered beneath the streets of west London, in Shepherds Bush, and a record-breaking blockage in Kingston weighed 15 tonnes.
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