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Jonathan is deeply relieved when Annabel suggests they forgo their customary family holiday in Italy for a week’s camping in Wales. With two sets of school fees for them to worry about, fancy foreign holidays are increasingly looking like a thing of the past. And besides, he has fond memories of childhood camping in Scotland: [...]

The downturn in the economy is beginning to affect consumer spending and holidays are the first to suffer, a study by Mintel has revealed.
Almost three in every five adults has chosen to cancel their spending plans recently because they are concerned about their personal finance situation, the report claims.
Consumers are more likely to sacrifice their [...]

Holidaymakers at one of the country’s busiest resorts say it is so filthy and unsafe it should be shut down.
Waingaro Hot Springs, west of Ngaruawahia, has previously been criticised by the coroner and water safety experts after a child drowned there.
Now there are fresh calls for the Waikato District Council which owns the lease of [...]

Megan’s parents were puttering at home on a frigid February evening when they got the call. They were told to come immediately and pick up their 16-year-old. She had been caught stealing cash from the store where she worked part-time. Police were involved. It had been clear Megan was lurching out of control. Once [...]

Fifteen years ago, you almost couldn’t give a condo away. Now some people line up overnight to buy them. Partly that’s because of a housing market so hot that getting your foot in the proverbial door no longer means a derelict semi, but a pint-sized condo. But another reason is the condo lifestyle, which [...]

By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth’s 86-year-old husband Prince Philip has been taken to hospital with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
The blunt-talking prince, who the palace said was working from his hospital bed, has been an energetic figure in the House of Windsor for more than six [...]

Eyewitness to Murder — The King Assassination , 6 and 9
p.m., CNN)
By Barry Garron
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN and Soledad O’Brien
mark Friday’s 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr. with a thorough and admirable two-hour
examination of whether James Earl Ray was the lone killer.
O’Brien [...]

These four people, none of whom had a criminal record, operated the Emperor%26#8217;s Club V.I.P., an escort service that functioned as a prostitution ring charging as much as $5,500 an hour, prosecutors say.Though new to the industry, the ring took in more than $1 million in barely three years, dispatching more than 50 [...]

%26#8220;Seek the shalom of the city into which I have sent you into exile,%26#8221; he recited, from the Book of Jeremiah. He spread his arms and looked about. There was little to behold. But it was peaceful.The first time he heard that verse, he was in exile, inside Sing Sing prison, serving 20 years [...]

THE grammar school at St. Lawrence O%26#8217;Toole Roman Catholic parish here opened in 1926, in a two-story building at the crest of a gentle slope near the train station. For decades, nuns lived in the rooms upstairs and taught their students in classrooms on the first floor.In 1968, when Brian Ledley entered first grade, [...]