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Awesome audience with kings of the ocean

12:02pm Friday 14th December 2007

It may be a decadent way to answer the call of the wild, but with budget airlines now flying to the east coast of Canada, TRACEY DAVIES decided to go and search for whales in the St Lawrence River, in the French province of Quebec.

Sheffield steal

12:01pm Friday 14th December 2007

Superbreak (01904 444 455) offers b&b for £80 a person any day of the week at four-star Mercure St Paul's Hotel. Handy for attractions and Meadowhall Shopping Centre, until the end of February.

Snow arrives early

12:01pm Friday 14th December 2007

DUE to plentiful snowfalls and low temperatures ski resorts all over Austria have brought forward their winter openings by more than two weeks. In many areas there is already more than one metre of snow right down to the valley stations.

Festive singletons

12:00pm Friday 14th December 2007

THE Christmas and New Year brochure from singles holiday specialist Just You gives the option to spend Christmas, New Year or the entire festive season away from home with like-minded people.

Over-50s just raring to go

11:59am Friday 14th December 2007

Today's over 50s look set to become some of the UK's most enthusiastic globetrotters over the next 10 years.

The chain in Spain

11:59am Friday 14th December 2007

UK hotel chain Travelodge is to expand into Spain, opening 100 hotels and creating 2,000 new jobs by 2020, in a £700 million programme.

A British favourite

11:58am Friday 14th December 2007

THE island of Tenerife is a firm favourite with visitors from the UK and receives 45% of the total number of British tourists who holiday in the Canaries. So far in 2007 Tenerife has welcomed a total 1.3 million visitors to the island and enjoys a staggering 80% repeat clientele - 31.4% of them staying in five-star hotels.

Few are green travellers

11:57am Friday 14th December 2007

Most holidaymakers think international travel harms the environment, but few are prepared to change their own plans.

P&O seeks new cruise inspectors

11:57am Friday 14th December 2007

A carefully crafted sentence could win you a free cruise holiday in Summer 2008.

Fashion, fizz, fun – and a day off for all

11:49am Friday 14th December 2007

Glamorous outfits, champagne, and prize money of AU$5.1million up for grabs - I could only be at the celebrated Melbourne Cup in Australia, one of the world's greatest sporting events.

Light delights at top show

11:22am Friday 14th December 2007

October saw the International Caravan and Motorhome show at Birmingham's NEC.

How about Paris for the weekend?

11:17am Friday 14th December 2007

As Christmas looms, let the holiday specialists at AITO (www.aito.co.uk) help you with gift ideas.

Everything you need for great family break

11:15am Friday 14th December 2007

There's no better base to stay in Egypt than First Choice's Holiday Village Red Sea.

Give them a winter treat

11:10am Friday 14th December 2007

Don't get stuck for gift ideas this Christmas - Edwards has a range of superb breaks this winter to suit all budgets.

Bridge to Sweden a true cultural connection

2:29pm Monday 12th November 2007

THE Oresund Bridge is a remarkable feat of engineering which opened seven years ago. It connects one of the world's great capitals by road and rail with the charming Swedish city of Malmö .

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Magnificent land time (almost) forgot

2:23pm Monday 12th November 2007

It was the moment I had always dreaded - and yet somehow half-expected.

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Spanish want to raze coastal homes

2:21pm Monday 12th November 2007

Plans to demolish holiday homes in Spain sparked a row - and uncertainty for Britons who own homes there.

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Rooms for a tenner

2:21pm Monday 12th November 2007

Hotelopia, online hotel booking specialist, has launched thousands of room nights at £10 and £15 or less per person for the entire month of November, in favourite and coastal destinations including Mallorca, Algarve, the Costa del Sol, and the Greek Islands.

Spice Girls offer

2:20pm Monday 12th November 2007

DERTOUR (0870 403 5442) has a Spice Girls offer - two nights in the five-star Intercontinental Hotel from December 20-22 for £299, incl flights from Stansted and concert tickets. Book by November 30.

It’s the fort that counts

2:20pm Monday 12th November 2007

The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, the country's longest steam railway, is running Steam and Romans experiences this autumn, to enable western Lake District visitors to reach isolated Hardknott Fort, one of the most inaccessible and spectacular Roman sites in Britain.