All news by author: Milo Boyd

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Europe's 'most relaxing city' has Northern Lights and breathtaking lagoon
Reykjavik in Iceland tops the MoneySuperMarket list thanks to its high air quality, abundance of green space, low pollution levels, happy population and low traffic
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UK airports set to ditch 100ml liquid rules in time for summer deadline
Edinburgh, Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester are among the airports which have provided updates on how upgrade works to their hand luggage scanners are going
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World’s creepiest theme park left to rot with abandoned rides and buildings
Nara Dreamland became known as the Japanese Disneyland having been built as a purposeful copy of the real theme park in Anaheim in California, USA way back in 1961
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Foreign Office issues Dubai travel warning for Brits heading on holidays
The UK Foreign Office has issued an urgent travel advice update for people travelling to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates following American and British military action in the Red Sea
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Sun-drenched city with gorgeous beaches is 'Europe's green capital' for 2024
Valencia in east Spain took over as European Green Capital from Tallinn, Estonia in a ceremony last week, kickstarting more than 400 sustainable events across 2024
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'I built myself a canoe to paddle down the Amazon and got kidnapped by pirates'
Michael Golodok, a warehouse loader from Siberia, Russia, spent months paddling down the Amazon River, starting at the in the eastern Peruvian city of Pucallpa
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Brave tourists make trek to tiny hut at 'end of the world' frozen for 115 years
Ernest Shackleton and his team of 14 men lived in a wooden hut at Cape Royds, next to Pony Lake, on McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic and prepared to attempt to reach the South Pole
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Brits warned they can get some money back for flights diverted during Storm Isha
Storm Isha caused flights to be cancelled to and from airports including Manchester, Dublin, Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham with one flight even making a 1,100 mile diversion
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Storm Isha forces pilot to do 'violent landing' as passengers cheer in relief
Storm Isha caused flights to be cancelled to and from airports including Manchester, Dublin, Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham with one flight even making a 1,100 mile diversion
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Musician blasts airline for 'smashing handcrafted £7k instrument beyond repair'
Mark Elton travelled from Melbourne to Perth to perform at the city's Fringe Festival, claiming that his double bass was damaged during the Qantas Airways flight
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Military experts list 3 things Europe must do to stop Putin declaring WW3
Military experts have offered their advice about how Europe and the US can stop Russia advancing West and help Ukraine push back the invading forces after two years at war
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Huge explosion rocks burning Russian gas terminal 'after drones seen in area'
At least two drones were spotted flying towards the city before the fire broke out at the gas plant close to St Petersburg in Russia, in what appears to be the latest Ukrainian strike on Russian infrastructure
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'Glammed up' guards manipulated by lags as illicit affairs behind bars skyrocket
Prison whistle-blowers have claimed cuts to staff numbers and falling training standards have led to rising rates of inappropriate relationships between prison wardens and lags
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Infuriated woman slams husband's 'cringe' travel habits that 'put us in danger'
A long-suffering wife has vented after her husband continues to put them in 'cringe' or 'dangerous' situations because he doesn't follow some basic safety tips abroad
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Rishi Sunak's hike on flights will impact Brits' holidays - but not private jets
Rishi Sunak will oversee a rise in domestic Air Passenger Duty and a freeze in the amount of tax paid for private jet flights, set to impact Brits booking holidays this year
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Brits could soon be flying on planes powered by their own human waste
Firefly Green Fuels, a Gloucestershire based company, wants to start turning human sewage into sustainable jet fuel which would be far greener than the kerosene currently used
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'I'm a mum-of-two but that doesn't stop me taking solo trips around the world'
Colleen Smith, who lives in County Durham and runs a dog grooming business has been on trips to Portugal, Spain, Morocco and Peru since her divorce two years ago
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Venice launches new tourist fee to deter visitors during peak seasons
Venice already has a series of different rules for tourists but now the Italian city is introducing a new fee for day visitors in a bid to put off tourist
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'I visited a beautiful European city ‘frozen in time’ with hardly any tourists'
Cluj-Napoca is the second largest city in Romania after Bucharest and the unofficial capital of Transylvania, while also being home to Electric Castle and Untold festivals
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Brits warned travel insurance mistakes could leave them facing hefty bills
As one in nine holidaymakers admit to never taking our travel insurance, around seven million uninsured trips out of the UK are taken each year, research commissioned by Aviva suggests
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Passengers terrified as they discover live snake on their plane mid-flight
Passengers on an AirAsia flight spotted the snake slithering above them during the flight, and of course people are making Snakes on a Plane jokes
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Man slammed for 'mum shaming' wife who wants to go on a solo holiday
The 32-year-old husband found himself in a tricky situation when his 30-year-old partner announced that she planned to take a lengthy holiday, prompting him to say that she couldn't go
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Brits warned train tickets can cost double when bought at station machines
Mystery shoppers discovered that fares purchased online were cheaper around three-quarters of the time, and on average, same day journeys cost a hefty 52% from machines at stations than online
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London and Paris among some of Europe's best accessible cities
Data from Tripadvisor and Yelp collected by Iglu Cruises has found the most disability-friendly travel destinations in Europe for 2024, with London, Paris and Amsterdam at the top of the list
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Huge holiday hotspot in Europe doesn't have a single public train or station
Despite being the same size as Bulgaria or Hungary, Iceland seemingly has no need for any train stations or railway lines to ferry the 300,000 people who live there around