7 h. ago British tourist tells of sombre atmosphere in Rome following death of Pope

Antoni Bohdanowicz, from Berkshire, travelled to Rome with his wife and her family to see the Easter service in St Peter’s Square.

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11 h. ago British tourist is shocked to be charged extra for two ICE CUBES at Spanish bar

Brit Viv Proops, who visited the Havana beach bar in Estepona, took to social media to rant about the extra cost.

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28 h. ago Major tourist destination declares 'pre emergency' in warning to British holidaymakers

Holidaymakers may want to avoid the destination over the next few days, as a number of alerts about hazardous weather conditions have been issued.

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3 d. ago British tourist faces hellhole US jail term after he caused wrong

Thomas Robb, 22, drove past at least two 'No Entry' signs before travelling the wrong way on a road in Rockland County, New York and colliding into another vehicle.

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4 d. ago Naples cable car crash: Brit woman named among four killed in horror plunge

The cable car plunged to the ground near the 1,100-metre high Mount Faito in Naples, Italy, when one of its main supporting cables snapped - killing two British tourists, one Israeli tourist and the driver

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5 d. ago Norwegian police explain why they wrongly deported a British tourist – but stop short of apologising

Exclusive: Police stop short of apologising to British visitor who was held in custody for three hours and marched by officers on to a flight sending her back to Edinburgh

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6 d. ago Moment baffled British tourist is found fast asleep in bed by Thai police after family back home reported him missing

A British tourist who sparked fears for his wellbeing after disappearing for a month in Thailand has been found safe in a dingy hostel.

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8 d. ago Governor's mansion arsonist Cody Balmer makes chilling revelation about what he'd have done if he'd seen lawmaker

Cody Balmer, 38, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated arson, burglary, and terrorism over the shocking incident early on Sunday morning.

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8 d. ago Benidorm tourist warning issued over infamous hotspot after Brit's horror experience

A British tourist's horror experience in Benidorm, Spain, has led to police issuing a travel warning - the tourist was targetted as he returned to his holiday apartment in the early hours of the morning.

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8 d. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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8 d. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea in Australia

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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8 d. ago Misery for holidaymakers in Lanzarote as resorts and roads are submerged by 'Armageddon' floods following major storm

Some hotels were left without power as services across the island were affected following the torrential rainfall, which one British tourist described as feeling like 'Armageddon'.

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9 d. ago Voices: I’m not the only British tourist with a passport horror story

Not only are holidaymakers being turned away at airports and refused entry to certain countries, the price for renewal has gone up again this week, writes Charlotte Cripps. Which begs the question: Why has travelling for Brits become such a passport pandemonium?

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1 week ago Moment bomb explodes at British tourist hotspot after device detonates outside train firm involved in catastrophic rail disaster

Anonymous calls warning of the attack were made to Greek media just moments before the blast on Friday night.

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1 week ago Bomb explodes in British tourist hotspot outside HQ of train firm involved in Greece's deadliest rail disaster

Anonymous calls were made ahead of a bomb exploding in a British tourist hotspot in Athens, Greece on Friday night - just yards away from the headquarters of rail firm Hellenic Train.

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1 week ago British tourist wrongly deported from EU country after border police passport bungle

The British traveller was on their way to visit the Scandi country when they were told their passport was invalid - despite it being issued within the last 10 years and remaining in date

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1 week ago British tourist mysteriously dies in Morocco while on holiday with girlfriend

Allen McKenna collapsed and died while on holiday in Casablanca with his 25-year-old girlfriend Majda Mjaoual in February - but his family have been given little information since.

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1 week ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

The horrifying truth behind the practices of psychiatrist William Sargant, one of Britain’s most influential mental health practitionersYou’d think a sleep room would be cosy, but the one on Ward 5 of the Royal Waterloo hospital in London, back in the 1960s, was dark and airless, a twilight zone where up to six patients – almost always young women – would lie comatose on grey mattresses for weeks, even months on end. They had come in with schizophrenia, anorexia or, in a few cases, a youthful waywardness that their parents hoped could be cured. For William Sargant, the psychiatrist in charge, the cure lay not only in prolonged narcosis but insulin shock therapy, ECT and, if need be, lobotomy. Afterwards, the patients had no memory of what had been done to them. The Sargant method was to wipe their minds clean.Celia Imrie, later a famous actor, was admitted to Ward 5 in 1966, when she was 14. To her it was “like being in a prison camp” and her recovery “owed nothing” to the “tru...

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2 w. ago Shocking moment British tourist 'attacks shopkeeper and teenage boy in front of terrified family' in Thailand

A British tourist has been arrested for attacking a shopkeeper and a teenage boy on the Thai island of Phuket.

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2 w. ago Mum hit with horror Turkey hospital bill after dislocating her neck in holiday freak 'accident'

A British tourist, who gave her name as G Haas, is in hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, after suffering an accident in the gym of her hotel during a surprise holiday with her daughter

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