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Travelling to Greener Pastures

Published on 18/02/2010 By admin

Now that everyone’s mother and twice removed cousin on their father’s side knows about global warming (we hope), ‘travelling green’ has become not only noticed, but really quite fashionable. Here are our destination favourites for the eco-conscious traveller. Portland, Oregon, USA Who would have thought the second biggest polluter worldwide could hide an eco-conscious gem [...]

Berlin’s Fake Mound

Published on 12/01/2010 By admin

Architects can be pretty off the wall at the best of times, but architect Jacob Tigges’s plan to build a 1000m mountain in Berlin could be the craziest idea to date. Surprisingly the project, The Berg, has won a fair amount of support from the German public. The artificial mountain is aiming to become the city’s largest [...]

Queues expected

Published on 30/11/2009 By admin

The announcement that airlines will now be obliged to pay out for delays is good news indeed for passengers. It certainly eases the pain of hours stuck in the departure lounge and is particularly well timed as we head into the delay season that is Christmas. What it doesn’t do, sadly, is make getting through [...]

Renault handed two-year suspended ban

Published on 23/09/2009 By admin

Flavio Briatore gets a life ban from motorsport as FIA respond to Renault race-fixing scandal. The FIA has handed former Renault Formula One boss Flavio Briatore a life ban from motorsport . Following a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council on Monday the sport’s governing body imposed the hefty sentence on Briatore for his [...]

China’s Beijing Auto Backs Koenigsegg in Purchase of Saab

Published on 11/09/2009 By admin

Koenigsegg’s bid to purchase GM’s Swedish Saab brand was contingent on the company securing additional funding, either through external investment or through loans. With the Swedish government not overly excited about bailing out Saab and after rejecting attempts by Volvo to secure assistance, Keonigsegg has looked to the private sector and overseas for an interested [...]