91 m. ago Football tourists help Manchester cement place among UK’s busiest airports

Northwest hub and London Heathrow saw passenger numbers soar for Europa League final in Bilbao between United and Spurs

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2 h. ago Spain tourist hotspot faces summer of 'changeover day' travel chaos as hotel staff set to strike

Hotel staff across Tenerife and the western Canary Islands will walk out every Friday in July and August amid growing tensions between unions and hoteliers

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2 h. ago Spain hotspot UK tourist chaos warning as hotel staff to 'strike every week on this day all summer'

The industrial action is being proposed in response to the "stubborn refusal" of employers to agree to a wage increase

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2 h. ago Heathrow says record demand shows ‘honest conversation’ is needed on expansion

More than 7.2 million passengers travelled through its four terminals last month.

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3 h. ago Brit tourists 'stolen from' as 'suspicious' trend sweeps holiday hotspot island

Spain has urged Brits to be careful as there are "suspicious" offers of help sweeping the Balearic Islands, with UK holidaymakers told to keep an eye on personal belongings and avoid street scams

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4 h. ago Netflix’s Titan: The OceanGate Disaster tells the inside story of CEO Stockton Rush’s fatal gamble

In June 2023, when a tourist submarine went missing off the coast of Newfoundland, the whole world stopped to follow the extraordinary story. Tom Murray speaks to the director of a Netflix documentary about the case, and hears about the mistakes that led to the accident

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4 h. ago Ross Doohan on Scotland whirlwind that carried him from Turkey hotel bed to career pinnacle in 72 hours

The stopper answered a last minute call to solve the Steve Clarke's goalkeeping crisis after Angus Gunn was injured against Iceland

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4 h. ago Viking woman from over 1,100 years ago found buried with her dog and boat

Researchers suspect she was important figure with significant social status

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5 h. ago ‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them

It is a ‘queer Xanadu’, a sliver of sand where weekend-long revelling takes place in fabulous modernist beach-houses. As Fire Island gets its mojo back, we celebrate the Speedos-wearing architect who defined its lookPosters advertising a “bear weekend” cling to the utility poles on Fire Island, punctuating the wooden boardwalks that meander through a lush dune landscape of beach grass and pitch pine. It’s not a celebration of grizzlies, by the looks of the flyers, but of large bearded men in small swimming trunks, bobbing in the pools and sprawled on the sundecks of mid-century modernist homes. You might also find them frolicking in the bushes of this idyllic car-free island, a nature reserve of an unusual kind that stretches in a 30-mile sliver of sand off the coast of Long Island in New York.Over the last century, Fire Island Pines, as the central square-mile section of this sandy spit is known, has evolved into something of a queer Xanadu. Now counting about 600 homes, it is a pl...

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5 h. ago Greta Thunberg news latest: Climate activist breaks silence after being deported by Israel over Gaza aid boat

Greta Thunberg says the world ‘needs more angry young women’ after criticism from Donald Trump

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6 h. ago Tourists urged to leave one item on suitcase or risk losing luggage at airport

Luggage experts at GMT Zero reveal the one small - but highly necessary - item that ensures your luggage stays on course to your final travel destination

Society

7 h. ago Tiny European airport where planes bizarrely 'land in 3 countries' at once

This unique airport, that welcomed almost nine million passengers last year, has been branded the 'strangest' hub in the world due to being located in a 'trinational Eurodistrict'

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8 h. ago Europe's 'longest' train journey between two beautiful countries is 1,075 miles

The Snälltåget train takes passengers on a scenic adventure, beginning in Malmö, Sweden and arriving at Innsbruck, Austria, a mere 22 hours and 1,720 km later

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9 h. ago Watch: Bloke in Roman helmet on mobility scooter taunts cops during Ballymena riots

Riots in Ballymena, Co Antrim - which erupted after locals took to the streets in fury over an alleged sexual assault - were interrupted by a man in a mobility scooter wearing a Roman helmet.

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9 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Deaths in Kharkiv as Russia continues strikes on civilian targets

Latest prisoner exchange includes Mariupol defenders; European Commission unveils 18th round of sanctions. What we know on day 1,204At least two people were killed and 28 injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday morning. “Seventeen strikes by enemy UAVs were carried out in two districts of the city this night,” said the Kharkiv mayor, Igor Terekhov. More than 15 apartments were on fire in a five-storey building and several houses were hit. Terekhov added “there may be people trapped under the rubble”.Separately the death toll rose to at least three with 13 wounded after Russia attacked Kyiv and Odesa with waves of drones and missiles early on Tuesday. The civilian targets hit included a maternity ward and a cathedral. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, voiced his frustration with Donald Trump by calling for “concrete actions” rather than “silence” after seven of the Ukrainian capital’s 10 districts were hit, writes Daniel ...

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9 h. ago Flight attendant reveals why you should never swap seats on a flight

TikTok video creator and flight attendant Leanna Coy explained why she doesn't like to switch seats whens she is flying as a passenger, arguing that doing so is risky business

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10 h. ago Watch: Trump says people who burn the American flag ‘should go to jail for a year’

Donald Trump says that anyone who burns the American flag should be thrown in prison.

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10 h. ago Gisele Bundchen makes a potentially very dangerous move when taking her baby boy for a stroll in Florida

The siren from Brazil had her third child, whom she shares with partner Joaquim Valente, strapped to her chest in a $366 off-white baby carrier from Zeitgeist Spirit.

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10 h. ago Spain's economy minister says 'overtourism' challenges need to be addressed

Spain could receive as many as 100 million tourists this year, according to some projections

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11 h. ago Watch: Pep Guardiola gives passionate speech on ‘pain’ of Gaza war

Pep Guardiola delivered an emotional speech about the ‘painful’ war in Gaza whilst accepting an honorary degree from the University of Manchester.

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