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Holiday windfall for Britons as euro slidesBritish families can expect to save hundreds of pounds on trips across Europe due to a slide in the value of the euro which has created the cheapest holiday-booking season since the financial crisis, experts have said.Holidaymakers can expect to save anything between five and 15 per cent on the cost of travel and accommodation booked this month and pay almost 20 cent less than last year on expenses such as eating out.Experts said British travellers could expect the cheapest holiday prices since before the financial crisis of 2008. It comes as the travel industry prepares for the traditional January surge in bookings.
Brendan O’Carroll has confirmed he has signed up to make Christmas specials of his opinion-dividing sitcom until 2020.Critics have called it the “worst comedy ever made”, with The Independent’s Grace Dent saying: “To love Mrs Brown one must be thrilled by a man in a hairnet and dinner lady tabard saying the F-word roughly once every ten minutes”.Writing earlier this year in The Independent, Archie Bland called the sitcom’s film Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie “dreadful”.It went on to make £18.3 million at the box office.
A proposal to rip up Rome's traditional cobbled streets and offer the stones to private businesses who carry out resurfacing works has caused consternation among some residents, it's reported.Large areas of the city's historic centre, including major thoroughfares used by buses, are paved with cobbles. While they may add to the Italian capital's charm, the council wants to replace the stones with asphalt, saying it will make roads safer for drivers and pedestrians, and require less maintenance.
A regional governor in Turkey has banned people from using lifts to reach the first three floors of public buildings, it's reported.Dursun Ali Sahin, governor of the western province of Edirne, wants people to take the stairs as part of a campaign against obesity, the Daily Sabah website reports.
Birmingham? Why send tourists there?Birmingham keeps being listed as one of the world's best cities to visit. How ridiculous and contrarian, writes Tim Moore
Prince Andrew named in US lawsuit over underage sex claimsIn case related to banker Jeffrey Epstein, woman alleges in court filing that she was forced to have repeated ‘sexual relations’ with duke
QuoteA proposal to rip up Rome's traditional cobbled streets and offer the stones to private businesses who carry out resurfacing works has caused consternation among some residents, it's reported.Large areas of the city's historic centre, including major thoroughfares used by buses, are paved with cobbles. While they may add to the Italian capital's charm, the council wants to replace the stones with asphalt, saying it will make roads safer for drivers and pedestrians, and require less maintenance.http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30642445
Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced plans to launch a new political party and break away from the Panhellenic Socialist Movement. The step could influence the outcome of upcoming elections.
QuoteBirmingham? Why send tourists there?Birmingham keeps being listed as one of the world's best cities to visit. How ridiculous and contrarian, writes Tim Moore http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/11321943/Birmingham-Why-send-tourists-there.html
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