44 countries you can visit even if you’re unvaccinated
31. India All travellers should submit a self-declaration form on the online “Air Suvidha” portal before they travel. If you are unvaccinated, you will need to upload…
Travel to Malta: latest Covid rules and holiday advice as ban on unvaccinated arrivals is lifted
The Mediterranean island of Malta is open to fully vaccinated British travellers and – from April 10 – unvaccinated arrivals who take a test. Some Covid restrictions…
Easter holidays in chaos as easyJet cancels more flights
Families are braced for further Easter travel chaos as easyJet said it expected to cancel more flights in the coming days. Travellers were this week facing hours-long…
How to claim compensation if your flight has been delayed or cancelled
Flight cancellations affected passengers at Manchester and Heathrow airports over the weekend and into yesterday. See below for our guide to your compensation rights when travel is…
When will Spain, Italy and Greece finally ditch their ‘unnecessary’ Covid rules?
At a press event last week, over coffee and breakfast tapas, the Spanish Tourist Office spoke confidently about the year ahead, with visitor numbers – after two…
The hidden pitfalls in booking train journeys online this summer – and how to avoid them
According to Smith, online journey planners apply a blunt logic which causes problems with search results. “Journey planners are automatically programmed to try to minimise journey time….
Five ways to avoid the travel chaos on your next holiday
Right on cue, as we gear up for our Easter getaways, a perfect storm of flight cancellations, airport queues and technical issues are stopping holidaymakers in their…
France’s best-kept secret: The seaside town you’ve never thought to visit
Four beaches running beneath woods, heathland and little cliffs furnish terrific sandy stretches, rock pools and ace surfing. Spots on Cenitz and Parlementia beaches are apparently famed…
Did the Culture Recovery Fund actually work?
On July 5 2020, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, unveiled the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF), a one-off investment in the UK arts industry to help it weather…
Caricatures by Siegfried Sassoon? A surprising auction as big biopic also nears
Next month, the celebrated First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon will be remembered on two counts. On May 20, Benediction, a biopic directed by Terence Davies, will…
Peter Greenaway at 80: why our most fearless director left British cinema behind
He now lives and works mainly in Amsterdam, and his films are mostly funded by a consortium of European financiers. Save the country of his birth, and…
John Travolta in Morrisons – and the other Hollywood hunks roaming Britain
You might think it would be Mission Impossible to spot Tom Cruise in the West Midlands. You’d be wrong. In the UK last summer to shoot the…
Rotter or rapist? Anatomy of a Scandal’s moral dilemma treads murky waters
The crux of Anatomy of a Scandal, however, is not over whether Whitehouse is a rotter, but if he is a rapist. The junior researcher (Naomi Scott)…
What’s on TV tonight: Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?, and more
Tuesday 5 April Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?BBC One, 9pm As one the most revered British swimmers of all time, with a clutch of Paralympic gold…
Maternity hospital ignored ‘multiple’ emergency calls and forced mothers to share food
“Multiple calls” for emergency assistance went unanswered and mothers were forced to share food and drink at one of England’s largest NHS trusts, hospital inspectors have found….
Tuesday morning news briefing: Inside story of Channel 4’s sale
It came as Russian troops reportedly prepared for a big attack in the Luhansk region, as local officials called for a mass evacuation. As Ukrainian officials warned…
The Fever Syndrome goes round the recriminatory houses without quickening the pulse
The fever syndrome referred to in Alexis Zegerman’s new play is a rare auto-inflammatory condition that recurrently engulfs the body in a debilitating and potentially dangerous high…
Poguemahone review: Patrick McCabe’s hippie satire is like Flann O’Brien on drugs
Poguemahone (Gaelic for “kiss my a—”) is a 600-page novel driven by events real and imagined in a shared house in Kilburn in 1974, involving a bunch…
Coming to England, review: a wasted opportunity to show how Floella Benjamin so spectacularly beat the odds
Based on Floella Benjamin’s childhood memoir first published in 1997, Coming to England is billed as one of the highlights of Birmingham Rep’s new season, celebrating the…
Bucha civilian killings are tip of the iceberg, warns Ukraine
The images shocked the world, but Ukrainian officials said it was only the beginning of the civilian murders the Russian retreat would reveal. Iryna Venediktova, the prosecutor…
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, review – a shambles to embarrass JK Rowling
The pandemic has wounded cinema in all sorts of ways, but the Fantastic Beasts series may prove to be its biggest victim to date. The Harry Potter…
EastEnders’ Dot Cotton: a real character with Shakespearean depths
The true test of her faith was demonstrated to superb effect in 2000 in a euthanasia storyline in which she helped her friend Ethel, who was suffering…
The ‘Nazi porn’ TV train rolls on – and so does its Churchillian interpretation of history
There is then much debate about whether Chamberlain thought he had bought time by refusing to fight over the Sudetenland, or whether he genuinely thought, in his…
Freezing Order by Bill Browder review: jaw-dropping exposé by Putin’s anti-corruption nemesis
Reading Bill Browder’s zesty new book about the theft, extortion, intimidation, lies and murder that are the Russian state’s daily levers of power can feel like reading…
How to book a Covid jab for your child — with slots now open for five to 11-year-olds in England
Bookings opened on Saturday, April 2 for children aged five to 11 in England to receive a Covid-19 vaccine. Children will be offered two doses of the…