The UK’s leading car hire price comparison website, Carrentals.co.uk, has announced that it is teaming up with road safety charity Brake to launch an annual road safety campaign, called Road Sense. Each year the scheme chooses a particular safety issue and encourages motorists to focus on it. This year it is getting car tyres and [...]

As Thomas Cook struggles to survive by placing itself further in debt, Europe’s number one travel operator could be heading for its best ever summer next year, according to analysts.
The firm is due to announce its first financial update since Thomas Cook’s ongoing troubles saw around 60 per cent wiped off its share value. Industry [...]

Air France has announced that it will not be allowing further maintenance work on its passenger jets by Chinese company Taeco. The decision was made after the French flag-carrier discovered that 30 screws on one of its ‘planes were missing. The incident occurred in the middle of last month.
The airline said that a protective panel [...]

Chancellor George Osborne has green lit 35 new rail and road schemes across the country which the government hopes will improve infrastructure and give a boost to the UK’s economy. Over the coming three years, £1 billion is to be spent on Network Rail, and a further £5 billion of tax payer’s money will go [...]

As many as 2 million workers from the public sector are expected to walk out today in protest over pensions. Some say it will be the largest turnout for a generation. Unions are protesting the fact that the government is asking people to work longer and pay more for their pensions.
Around 1,000 demonstrations have been [...]

Troubled travel operator Thomas Cook has seen share prices recover slightly after it confirmed that it has reached a new deal with lenders to provide financing. A deal for a short-term credit agreement which was announced in October this year, and which was worth £100 million, has now been replaced with a new agreement to [...]

Travel group Thomas Cook has secured new funding with the banks. The company has been in financial trouble lately, and this year has been forced to issue three profit warnings. News that the travel firm was talking to banks meant shares fell in value by 75 per cent. In October, Thomas Cook announced that it [...]

A recent survey, conducted by Dubai Tourism, shows that Brits are seemingly unadventurous when it comes to sampling the local fare when they go on holiday. The study reveals that 59 per cent are unlikely to sample foreign cuisine, where 65 per cent openly admitted that they seek out a fast food restaurant when they [...]

The average annual cost of owning and running a car in the UK is close to £7,000 according to a new study. The RAC has published figures which show that the price of petrol is the highest contributing factor as it has increased by around three times the rate of inflation. In the last year [...]

Troubled tour operator Thomas Cook saw shares fall in value once again as it announced it would be seeking an increase in the amount of money the banks will allow it to borrow. The company said last month that it had managed to secure £100 million; it is now saying that it hopes to double that [...]