Saturday, 20th February 2010, Littlehampton, West Sussex, 11am-1pm
“I believe that the cyclised city is the civilised city”, declares ebullient Boris Johnson. Love him or hate him, London’s mayor is – not so quietly –revolutionising cycling in the capital.
Make the most of your hard-earned cash with Stephen Baker’s 25 top holiday moneysaving tips
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In the second of his reports about Georgia, Adrian travels to the mountainous area in the north west of the country called Svaneti.
Hands off our holidays was the name of a campaign that started yesterday. Regular readers will be aware of the annoyance of APD -air passenger duty- and the complaints made by industry and some destinations. We passengers haven’t had much opportunity to have a say but the airline sector is giving us a chance.
VAT is charged on nearly everything. And when you stay at a hotel 17.5% is payable by the hotel to the tax coffers. It is a uniform tax payable wherever you are in our countries unlike the United States where taxes vary state by state. But In France, the VAT on visiting attractions is only 5.5% and from the beginning of 2010, Germany will only charge hotels 7% VAT instead of the normal 19%.
Now 40 British M.P’s have signed a motion calling on our government to cut the VAT that accommodation providers and attractions pay.
A Welsh village is hoping to woo cash rich Chinese tourists by building a £50 million purpose built holiday resort, where signs will be in Mandarin and staff will be familiar with Chinese customs.
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