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Short breaks from Manchester

bmibaby will fly you to some of Europe's best holiday destinations for as little as Ł9.99 one-way including taxes

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Jaguar XFR: pussy or cougar?

Gordo takes a brand new Jag for a prowl

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Frog and Bucket Comedy Club

Limited free tickets available for the Frog and Bucket this Thursday

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Win return flights to Iceland, the US or Canada from Icelandair

Icelandair are giving away a pair of return flights to one of their destinations across the pond (or in the middle of it)

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Gordo, Moet on Ice and The Hudson H...
A quiet weekend away with our shy retiring loud lunatic excessive jet-lagger
 
Alpine food, views and choo-choos
Neil Sowerby does a gastronomic hike and a World Heritage train ride
 
BA changes child seating policy
British Airways changes ‘humiliating’ male seating rules following sex discrimination case
 
Neil Sowerby’s travel shorts 16/08/...
A380 Super-Jumbo’s Manchester debut, a relaxing Elbow, jazz in The Azores and flights for Mecca pilgrims
Zurich: efficient and eccentric
Jennifer Choi scratches the chocolatey surface, waltzes at a train station and finds a surprising secret histo...
 
Escape flies high
Neil Sowerby samples the great Escape. It’s a new lounge at Manchester Airport’s Terminal One
 
Chips, flips and a night with Flavo...
Simon Binns discovers there’s more to Las Vegas than drinking and gambling, but does a lot of that anyway.
 
Neil Sowerby’s travel shorts
easyjet, Golf, lounges, bigger planes and Bournemouth
 
Estonia and long nights
Neil Sowerby finds himself in a right Baltic state but suitably entranced
 
Souks, luxury and donkey droppings
Neil Sowerby writes chapter two of his Morocco visit
 
Feversham Arms Hotel and Verbena Sp...
Lynda Moyo travels 100 feet above sea level to discover a Yorkshire paradise
Ludlow = Heaven
Neil Sowerby amongst ‘blue remembered hills’ in perhaps England’s prettiest town
 
Jaguar XFR: pussy or cougar?
Gordo takes a brand new Jag for a prowl
 
Essaouira, Morocco
Neil Sowerby is blown away on the hippie trail in the original Windy City
 
RNCM hits high notes with Finnair
Music, lights, jet engines, in-flight magazines, action
Luxury in the Lake District
That’s tarn it. Neil Sowerby sets his telescopic sights on romance in one of the Lake District’s loveliest hot...
 
London: Afternoon tea at The Langha...
Neil Sowerby samples two ends of the London luxury hotel spectrum – the expensively refurbished Victorian gran...
 
Amsterdam - quirky shops, scenic ca...
Neil Sowerby stays in a medieval cruck barn and suffers for all his aimless wandering in Amsterdam
 
New Škodas get top marks
The sporty Fabia vRS and Škoda Superb Estate are impressing the test drivers
Champagne in Champagne
Champagne sales may have gone a little flat in the recession but a visit to this region of France is still a s...
 
Cologne: beer, culture and convenie...
Neil Sowerby whiffs a perfect weekend away – a mere hour and 20 minute flight away from the North West
 
Prague without the pub crawls
Sarah Tierney finds a beautiful city shrugging off a party-town image
 
Free winter health checks
Georgina Hague doesn’t need to be wealthy to have a car that’s healthy
Still not had your summer holiday?
bmibaby’s flights to France are a cheap way to get abroad, and they're good for more than just city breaks
 
Make a date with the Dales
Lynda Moyo spends a long weekend in a pod on a hillside in Yorkshire
 
Park Inn is here
Fancy a mini-break? Check in at Manchester's new Ł27m hotel
 
Ex-demonstrator Manchester Audi sale
Manchester Audi are selling off their ex-demonstrator cars this weekend – with savings of up to Ł9,000
SEAT Ibiza   Ecomotive - the credit...
Lynda Moyo finds the congestion charge compromise in this tax-free runaround
 
Never mind the Balkans
Luke Bainbridge swaps the basement for the beach as he follows Electric Chair to Croatia and chats with Justin...
 
Southern Poland:  meat, mountains a...
Jonathan Schofield and the first Manchester Confidential travel article: we’re going places, expect more of th...
 
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