Headwater’s Bikes For Africa campaign has got off to a flying start. ‘Recycle’ is a charitable organisation that collects old and used bikes, or bits and pieces thereof, and sends them to places in Africa where they can be reconditioned, reassembled and used by the locals. Not only are Headwater sending hundreds of spare parts [...]

Well it’s about time. The watchdog organisation that looks after rail complaints is now to have its remit extended to look after air passengers as well. Passenger Focus is a publicly funded body and will force airports and airlines to publish performance measures that will reveal how good a job they are doing, and also [...]

It isn’t just company websites that are becoming more sophisticated these days - anyone who wants to raise their profile with the public for whatever reason now has to have someone handy with computers onside to boost their presence on the internet. Last week even HRH The Queen had the Official Site of the British Monarchy [...]

More evidence emerged this weekend that we in the UK are the most closely scrutinised group of people in the world. The Home Office has recently released plans to log every single journey that we make beyond these shores – estimated at around 250 million trips every year.

  The annual Destinations Show kicks off today at Earl’s Court running from the 5th to the 8th of February.  The Destinations Show is the perfect place to go to look for holiday inspiration, especially on another grey and snowy day when it’s cold outside and we all dream of escaping to some sunshine.   One [...]

The freezing Arctic air promised by forecasters is here, and predictably the UK travel infrastructure has collapsed in a shivering heap with Heathrow, City and Luton all closed, rail information websites crashing, 10 out of 11 lines on the London tube affected and hardly any bus service in London either! It is lucky cold only comes in [...]

Birmingham Council has recently voted to abolish the possessive apostrophe from place names, arguing that it is no longer relevant or necessary. You can read the report in the Times here.

OK so it’s official – figures released today by the Government confirm that the UK is in recession. As if we didn’t know already. On the bright side, (if you live on the continent), the collapse of Sterling against the Euro has made the UK much cheaper than it has been for ages.  In fact, [...]