The government has announced plans to scrap extra charges for airline passengers, including fees for parents sitting next to their children and unnecessary administration costs. Under measures unveiled on Friday, airlines will be required to seat children under fourteen with their parents free of charge. Ministers also confirmed they are working alongside airline companies and trade unions to address passenger behaviour on flights.

There is something different about Friday in Britain. It is technically just another day of the week, but nobody really treats it that way. Monday has a reputation for being difficult, Tuesday is generally ignored, Wednesday is the awkward middle child, Thursday is spent looking forward to Friday, and then Friday finally arrives with its own set of rules. Some of those rules are obvious. Others are strange little habits […]

There was a time when getting into the car meant entering a small, mobile storage cupboard. Not because we were particularly organised, but because we seemed to believe that absolutely anything might come in useful one day. Modern cars are remarkably clever. They can tell you where you are, warn you about traffic, connect to your phone, play almost any song you can think of and, in some cases, practically […]