Southampton Airport adds new routes
Low-cost airline Volotea is set for a May 2016 launch with a route from Southampton to Majorca in its first flights in the UK.
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Archive for month: October, 2015
The £6.6m Ferrari: A 1960 250 GT that’s paid for a state of the art lifeboat
Auctioned alongside a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 on Wednesday, the two cars – owned by the late businessman Richard Colton – raised a huge £8.5m, all of which was donated to the RNLI to raise money for a state of the art waterjet-propelled lifeboat.
Sold with no reserve, the 1960 250 GT SW (standing for short wheelbase) berlinetta might appear as a gleaming museum-ready example, but is in fact a car that’s covered more than 100,000 miles.
Notably the first production-made Ferrari to be fitted with disc brakes as standard, it’s powered by a 252bhp 2,953cc V12 engine and is the second of just nine right-hand-drive versions to ever come to the UK.
It cost the original owner £5,926, two shillings and six pence – that included a 10% discount.
Wish you were here… so we built you a town!
- Las Vegas, Dubai and Cancun are some of world’s best-loved destinations
- But each of these cities were little more than sand 100 years ago
- A 4.5 billion euro (£3billion) ‘tourist city’ in Bosnia is in the pipeline
However perfect a tourist destination might seem, it will always have its glaring faults – in London the attractions are too spread out, in Venice the streets can be too narrow and in Rome the cobbles play havoc on the ankles.
Which is why some countries decided to design cities and towns from scratch to tempt those looking for a problem-free holiday.
Last week, it was revealed that a Dubai-based developer signed a 4.5 billion euro (£3billion) contract on Thursday to build a ‘tourist city’ in Bosnia that will include thousands of homes, several hotels, a shopping mall and a hospital in the municipality of Trnovo.
But Bosnia isn’t the only country to plan its own tourist haven from nothing. Places like Cancun in Mexico and Atlantic City in the US have also been created by town planners to either attract tourism to the country or ease the pressure of other busy holiday spots nearby.
For 2,000 years, enterprising politicians have been building their very own Blackpool, with many of them still functioning as popular tourist destinations today.
Hampshire Police launch speeding crackdown
POLICE across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are supporting an international plan to highlight speed limits.
This week a speed enforcement campaign has been launched to highlight the dangers of speeding in the UK and abroad………………
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