Business travellers pull 14-hour days when they're working on the road
10/16/2018, 4:11:19 PMSurvey found workers get just two hours a day to themselves on business trips ✔ Bank, said: The results showed that life on the road is full of long hours and can sometimes be hard work ✔ 3h 51 travel to, from, in between meetings 6h 43 in meetings, working from hotel room etc ✔ 1 hour 55 - free time to explore city, additional networking etc
Holidays: Cheapest city breaks by train in the UK revealed - can you guess number one?
10/16/2018, 6:55:41 PMHOLIDAYS: The cheapest UK city breaks by train have been revealed in new research, with cities in the north of England ranking in the top five. How many have you visited? ✔ The global travel marketplace looked at train fares, hotel prices, and dining costs ✔ Parents on the lookout for ways to entertain their children may find a train trip a great way to keep the kids amused and the costs down ✔ Skyscanner’s Best Value UK City Break by Train 1 Birmingham 2 Liverpool 3 Glasgow 4 Manchester 5 Oxford
'I felt at home in Dracula's castle': Rupert Grint on dark tourism and why he's gone off flying
10/16/2018, 4:00:33 PMundefined ✔ I’d never been on a flight ...before I was cast as Ron Weasley in the first Harry Potter film ✔ After that everything changed and one of the first premieres I attended was in New York just a few months after 9/11, which was a really eerie time to visit ✔ Snatch, starring Rupert Grint, airs Tuesdays at 9pm on AMC and BT TV
Breaking the two-hour rule: What is the most sensible time to arrive at an airport?
10/16/2018, 4:00:34 PMGrowing up, it was ingrained in my consciousness that arriving at the airport with anything less than two hours until the scheduled departure time was tantamount to ripping up your plane tickets and cancelling the holiday. ✔ Progressing from door to door in most airports should in theory take around 30 minutes, with a swift security queue and a healthy gait ✔ A schedule that says anything less than two hours will almost certainly see you miss your flight ✔ But it’s unlikely travel insurance will cover any costs if your only excuse is you thought arriving 30 minutes before departure would be fine
Best hotels in Yorkshire for walking
10/16/2018, 4:00:37 PMFrom cosy inns, restaurants with rooms, pubs with rooms and b&bs, to luxury spa hotels, we've rounded up some of the best Yorkshire hotels for walkers looking to explore the Yorkshire Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire Three Peaks, Yorkshire countryside and Yorkshire Wolds. ✔ Read the full review: The Yorke Arms • The best hotels for woodland walks in Britain Yorebridge House, Bainbridge, Yorkshire Dales The gabled, three-storey Yorebridge House, built in 1850 from local stone, sits right by the River Ure on the edge of Bainbridge village in Wensleydale, with the photogenic triple-flight Aysgarth Falls waterfall just round the corner
Walt Disney World Just Changed Ticket Prices—Here's Everything You Need to Know Before You Book
10/16/2018, 7:23:48 PMThe new ticketing system operates on a date-based scale ✔ Instead, it’s meant to be an extension of their current seasonal pricing strategy, as the ticket prices will be preset based on park demand and will not fluctuate based on how many people book tickets for a certain period of time ✔ As we continue to expand by adding world-class attractions and amazing entertainment, we also are introducing date-based tickets and pricing, which gives guests tailored choices and better allows us to spread attendance throughout the year to improve the guest experience
Richard Curtis’s best movies: From Bridget Jones to Notting Hill
10/16/2018, 7:22:09 PMScreenwriter's sweary romantic comedies of manners, personified by Hugh Grant, among Britain's most successful exports of past 25 years ✔ About Time (2013) Domhnall Gleeson made a game leading man in the writer’s not-wholly-successful attempt to introduce magic realism to Curtisland ✔ John Hannah’s reading of Funeral Blues by WH Auden at the memorial for Gareth (Callow), laid low by ceilidh dancing, also belongs to the ages
GBBO bakers make Smorrebrod - what exactly the Danish treat is
10/16/2018, 7:21:41 PMThe Great British Bake Off will see it's first ever Danish Week for the quarter-final theme, so what is the dish on the signature challenge? ✔ The bakers will first be tasked with their signature challenge - putting their own spin on the Danish snack, Smorrebrod ✔ These ‘plates’ would allow them to eat the equivalent of several meals in one sitting, important for a laboring farmer trying to keep their energy high ✔ Contestants for 2018 Bake Off airs Wednesdays at 8pm on Channel 4
All The Best Deals At Jet Right Now
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Google Maps Street View: Car captured in crash mystery - can you work out what’s happened?
10/16/2018, 4:49:08 PMGOOGLE Maps Street View doesn’t always catch people and their actions at their best, as the result of this unfortunate accident spotted in Ireland proves. What do you think happened? ✔ Google Maps Street View: The dark green vehicle has smashed straight into a huge boulder (Image: Google Maps) The current image does not show the three walkers, however, but no doubt other passersby will be just as intrigued ✔ To add another mystery into the story, the Google team seem to have blurred out some of the ground next to the driver
Flight secrets: Cabin crew reveal they do THIS in a serious medical emergency
10/16/2018, 5:44:12 PMFLIGHTS: Medical emergencies on board a plane might not be common during a flight but they do happen. A cabin crew member has revealed what they have to do if something serious does occur on board. ✔ This usually includes IV medicines and other equipment that is more advanced but not deemed impossible for someone without medical training to administer without help ✔ Should the worse happen during the flight and there is a death, the cabin crew will often cover the deceased passenger with a blanket, another flight attendant revealed
WOW Air retrenching? Service to three Midwest cities axed
10/16/2018, 6:51:24 PMWOW Air’s aggressive expansion into U.S. Heartland has run into turbulence. Budget airline says it will ax service to St. Louis, Cleveland and Cincinnati. ✔ Louis, WOW said demand for the service did not meet its expectations ✔ He predicted low fares – coupled with smaller jets – could lead to profits by catering to pent-up demand for cheap trans-Atlantic flights ✔ With those kind of prices, we have seen in other markets that we enter that we have stimulated the market significantly, he said
How to take the ultimate autumn photo (and have yours featured by us)
10/16/2018, 4:00:36 PMundefined ✔ The leaves are turning, the temperature is dropping, the nights are drawing in ✔ The best places in the world to see the arrival of autumn The heat of autumn colours needs no exaggeration The sheer heat of autumn colours needs no exaggeration ✔ I was looking at a chestnut tree the other day and thought it rather low-key
What are you flying over? The best sights on Britain's busiest air routes
10/16/2018, 4:41:25 PMundefined ✔ It’s not often that I initiate a conversation with a stranger on a plane ✔ But last week on a hop from Lisbon to Stansted I abandoned my policy of in-flight isolationism ✔ If you get put in a holding pattern over the Big Apple, of course, everyone wins ✔ For something very exotic, the long journey from Heathrow to Singapore looks to be a winner
Meghan Markle's Best Friend Jessica Mulroney Arrives in Australia Hours After Baby Announcement
10/16/2018, 4:22:30 PMThe Mulroneys are expected to support Meghan and Prince Harry at the Invictus Games, being held in Sydney starting Oct. 20 ✔ Jessica shared a mirror selfie from the elevator captioned, Ready for the most jetlagged workout of our life ✔ Just four months after her royal wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan has maintained a small group of friends that she keeps on speed dial ✔ Appearing slightly nervous, Harry added, whether it’s a boy or a girl
Jeff Bezos wants 1 trillion humans in the solar system - and he thinks he knows how to get them there
10/16/2018, 4:19:15 PM'I won't be alive to see the fulfilment of that long-term mission' ✔ There were no deaths reported among the 164 passengers and six crew members aboard the Utair Boeing 737, but the Russian health ministry said 18 people were injured ✔ Mr Bezos’s Blue Origin received $500m, arms and aerospace giant Northrop Grumman will get $792m, and United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defence, Space & Security and which already provides launch services to the US government, is due to receive $967m
UK Property: Fall in landlords purchasing sparks boost to first time buyer numbers
10/16/2018, 4:15:33 PMWHILST the heatwave of the summer feels like a distant memory now, figures from lenders for August released this morning highlight the UK property market saw the number of first time buyers reached its highest monthly level since June 2017 as the number of landlords purchasing property slumped. ✔ Brian Murphy, Head of Lending for Mortgage Advice Bureau added that an increase of first time buyers is: Positive news for the rest of the property market, as they do underpin the housing ecosystem ✔ How a further pincer movement by the treasury on landlords to encourage more to dispose of their existing assets and fewer to buy will be met by the investor community, though, remains to be seen
19 Of The Best Towels You Can Get On Amazon
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Morning Update: To Reiterate, None Of This Is Normal
10/16/2018, 5:50:18 PMUS mercenaries kill politicians in Yemen, Elizabeth Warren's genetic test, a new migrant caravan is coming. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, October 16. ✔ Hillary Clinton said that Bill’s affair with an intern in her twenties wasn’t an abuse of power ✔ The group turned heads at the convention and won the competition but their cosplay skills would take them even further: They got viral love for their mad skills and for nailing their costumes
Trump hasn't come close to 'draining the swamp.' Can Democrats hijack that message?
10/16/2018, 6:59:36 PMHouse Democrats have a legislative blueprint they've promised to follow if they retake the gavel. But it's not about healthcare, taxes or immigration. It's about governing. ✔ He knelt, triumphantly, behind the baboons, their dead bodies clustered together ✔ But the justices punted on what seemed for a while to be the key issue in the case: whether requiring Phillips to bake a cake for Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins would have forced him to engage in compelled speech in violation of the 1st Amendment
It could take Earth 'millions of years' to recover from the extinctions we're causing. That's ... not good
10/16/2018, 6:13:07 PMAs bad as human-powered climate change might be – and it’s very bad – we often lose sight of the other sins our species has committed against the earth/ In fact, we've has so much environmental impact we're pushing the Earth into a mass extinction of species. ✔ Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) So it looks like Wilbur Ross was being, how do I put this, less than truthful when he explained to Congress earlier this year how he came to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census ✔ In other words, it harnesses market forces to combat climate change, rather than imposing regulations to dictate reductions in carbon use
George R. R. Martin Answers Times Staffers’ Burning Questions
10/16/2018, 4:19:55 PMThe writer discloses where he gets his signature hats and the “Game of Thrones” character that reminds him the most of Trump. ✔ As for television, I was the first television generation ✔ There’s an amazing amount of terrific shows that are on right now, some which Game of Thrones is competing for in the Emmys, shows like Better Call Saul, and before it, Breaking Bad, filmed here in Albuquerque ✔ Pompeo Meets With Saudi Leaders to Discuss Khashoggi Case
Fifth of Y Combinator female founders sexually harassed by investors, research finds
10/16/2018, 7:22:02 PMNineteen say they experienced inappropriate 'incidents' from angel investors or venture capitalists ✔ AFP/Getty 49/50 29 August 2018 People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar Reuters 50/50 28 August 2018 President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian Parliament in the capital Tehran ✔ The figure was cited by claimants suing Microsoft for systematically denying pay raises or promotions to women at the world’s largest software company
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