28 h. ago 'There'll be uproar': Residents' fury after three meter wide grass verge is listed for auction prompting fears travellers could move in

EXCLUSIVE: Residents living next to a bustling main road on the Isle of Sheppey have reacted with horror after a three-meter wide grass verge was listed for auction.

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52 h. ago Ghost booking: The tactic travellers are using to ease US border control fears

As border crossing anxiety increases, this practice is haunting hotels

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2 w. ago ‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump

With US visits down 11.6% in March compared with last year, people share their views and experiences on the US borderLast year, while Joe Biden was US president, Jenny and her husband booked a trip to Boston for June 2025.The British couple had been to New York before and wanted to see more of the country. But after Donald Trump’s re-election in November, Jenny said a “shadow” began to fall on their travel plans. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Residents of 'Britain's Beverly Hills' traveller ordeal: How group 'rampaging' through town caused chaos for locals

Stephanie Reed, 40, lives in Guilford, Surrey, with her husband and two sons, and has warned that the influx of 'scary and aggressive' travellers could see locals flee the area in fear.

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2 w. ago Going on holiday to Lanzarote? Everything you need to know about the weather

Fears around travel to Spanish island ahead of Easter weekend

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3 w. ago ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric

Number of Brits crossing Atlantic down 14.3% from 2024 – and the travel industry fears decline could continueAfter backpacker Rebecca Burke was arrested and locked up for nearly three weeks by US immigration ­officials in February, she started urging people not to travel to America.Britons seem to have listened: UK residents visiting the US were down 14.3% in March compared with the same month in 2024, official figures show. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee

Beleaguered UK universities have a golden opportunity. If the government passes it up, it risks billions in revenue Shocking stories told at a US universities conference in San Diego described Donald Trump’s assaults on research grants, academics and students. Foreign students face deportation for infractions as minor as parking or speeding tickets. A reported 500 student visas have been suddenly revoked – with some students sent to deportation centres, and others told to “self-deport”. With a million foreign students warned by their universities not to travel abroad for fear of never getting back in, that’s a strong deterrent to others deciding whether to study in the US.Jo Johnson, former minster for universities, King’s College London visiting professor and chair of the Lords education committee, listening to this list of persecutions, spoke to me from San Diego. “The UK should be extending the warmest of welcomes, a safe port in a storm,” he says. Concerns about immigration numb...

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3 w. ago Is fear of flying getting worse? Expert explains your anxiety after high

A psychologist shares why a fear of flying does not necessarily stop people from taking to the skies – despite a surge in traumatic plane crashes across the world

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4 w. ago As a young man, I fell in love with the US. The country’s soul is still there, despite Trump’s best efforts to destroy it | John Harris

For many of us, the United States means music, progress, hope. Whatever their president does, plenty of Americans continue to believe in those tooIt seems as inevitable as the economic chaos let loose by Donald Trump’s mad avalanche of tariffs: a precipitous drop in the number of tourists visiting the US, which is now forecast to be even worse than initially feared. In February, overseas travel to the country was down by 5% compared with the previous year – and, now, reputable forecasters are predicting a drop of nearly twice that size.We all know why. Trump’s hostile words about Canada and Mexico have hit the US’s top two markets for tourism. Finnish, German and Danish transgender and non-binary people have been advised by their governments to contact a US diplomatic mission before travelling there. Note also a trickle of reports about outsiders falling foul of the cruel stringency apparently now gripping the American authorities: a 28-year-old woman from north Wales held for 19 da...

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last month I was a travel writer with a fear of flying — here's how I overcame it

Travel journalist Rosalyn Wikeley has been afraid of flying for as long as she can remember. After a particularly hairy incident she decided to take matters into her own hands — by flying a plane herself

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