British holiday information

If vintage aircraft holds a fascination for you, why not consider booking a flight on a vintage 1930s aircraft this May bank holiday? Classic Flight is returning to Blackpool Airport on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May, offering pleasure flights on a De Havilland Dragon Rapide. Flights cost from £75 per person and will depart [...]

With all the hype surrounding London 2012 Olympic tickets, cloud-based email security and compliance solutions company, Proofpoint, is warning of potential email ticketing scams. The company is warning customers not to get too carried away and to be alert of phishing email scams. Below is an official quote from Proofpoint offering advice for anybody purchasing [...]

The deadline for registering to enter the ballot to obtain tickets for next year’s London Olympics is tonight – 23:59. The six-week registration process began on 15 March for tickets to the Game’s 650 sessions covering 26 sports over 17 days. Popular events, such as the men’s 100m final, have a limit of four tickets [...]

If old planes are your thing, then get yourself along to Robin Hood Airport this Easter weekend. The last flying Vulcan, XH558 has arrived at the airport and will be on display from the viewing gallery at Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield every day between the 22nd April (Good Friday) and the 2nd May (11am [...]

Oulton Park is gearing up to host its first major event of the 2011 season over Easter weekend (23/25 April), when it welcomes a double headline meeting from the British F3 and GT Championships. British F3 and GT brings an exciting mix of multi-million pound sportscars and future Grand Prix stars to Cheshire for practice [...]

Travelodge has today knocked the Hilton hotel group off the top spot as London’s biggest hotel chain. With the opening of its 99-room Ealing Travelodge today, the chain now has 40 hotels with 5,714 rooms across the capital, and is the fastest growing hotel chain in the UK. After also announcing today that it has [...]

Legendary motorsport stars, Norfolk heroes and historical figures are among the personalities and places to be immortalised by the redeveloped Snetterton circuit, as venue owner MotorSport Vision (MSV) unveils the new corner names for the multi-configuration track. Following the announcement in Autumn 2010 of a multi-million pound transformation of the Norfolk venue into arguably the [...]

A series of superheroes and toys descended on Brands Hatch on Wednesday (16 March) for a race with a difference to raise money for Comic Relief. Captain America, Buzz Lightyear, Spiderman, Bananaman, Morph, Barbie & Ken, the Honey Monster, a Green Army Man from Toy Story and Katsuma all took part in a race on [...]

Who would have thought that London’s Clapham Common would become a campsite? Well, amazingly, there’s a lot of speculation suggesting that it could happen – well for the duration of the Royal Wedding, at least. The proposal is for a Clapham Common campsite which could accommodate up to 10,000 people for three nights – Thursday, [...]

If the idea of staying in a treehouse for your family holiday appeals to you, you’ll be pleased to hear that Center Parcs has just announced that their Treehouses at Sherwood Forest have now been completed. The three two-storey Treehouses are located in the 400 acres of woodland at Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire and feature [...]