Tut. Tut. Tut. In Scotland a 27-year old legal assistant has been declared bankrupt after running up a tab of £18,000 (€21,584) worth of unpaid parking fines.
Over a 12-month period, Clare Williams left her black VW Beetle in a metred space outside her office and sauntered off into work without paying the metre.
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Michael O’ Leary was yesterday forced to utter an apology to Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet for accusing him of being a liar in a series of print advertisements for Ryanair.
You can’t blame Stelios for being annoyed – you would be too if you were portrayed with an elongated nose and a [...]

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The following question comes from a customer called Rebecca who’s planning a road trip to Florida with Orlando car hire:
Hi Fiona
I’m in the middle of planning a trip to Orlando with a group of friends this November.  We’re all aged 25 years and under.  I have held a full driving licence for nearly [...]

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Did you know you can now search and compare hundreds of car hire deals from the comfort of Facebook?
That’s right….ArgusCarHire.com’s new booking engine application lets you secure your next getaway car without you having to leave the cosy surroundings of your favourite social networking site.
The booking engine app not only allows you to [...]

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As huge numbers of distraught 1800hotels.com customers flood internet forums, blogs and national airwaves to vent their frustration at the site’s closure, holidaymakers everywhere are wondering how they can protect themselves from a similar fate.
You could do a lot worse than checking out a new site called ProtectMyHoliday.com.  The site aims to provide [...]

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The easiest bit of renting a car is picking it up and driving it away.  Isn’t it? Not so, according to a new survey by Kwik Fit.
A whopping one in three people hiring a car admit that they struggle with its basic controls when they step inside for the [...]

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Any plans for the weekend? If you’re in the UK, head for the south, it’s set to be a scorcher of a weekend…
Temperatures look like climbing to a sweltering 31c (88f) in some parts of East Anglia and the South East today and tomorrow. Meanwhile, there is even a chance of [...]

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So it seems Ryanair and its Dublin- based PR machine, Murray Consultants have decided to go their separate ways.�
This week the two companies said there were no hard feelings and they had agreed to part on an “amicable and mutually agreed basis”.
Murray will pack their bags (no doubt, regulation cabin size) at the end [...]

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Hi Fiona
I’ve decided to rent a car from Malaga Airport this summer.
I’m 62 and currently I hold a paper driving licence (UK), but this doesn’t expire for a few more years.
Do I need the new photographic type of licence or will the paper licence suffice?
Alternatively, will I need to bring [...]

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Pamplona is waking up to the start of San Fermin, its controversial nine-day festival in honour of the city’s patron saint.
The most famous event of the festival is of course, the Running of the Bulls (Encierro in Spanish). This takes place every morning of the festival.
Whether you agree with the tradition or not – [...]

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