These days we're used to watching films in unusual venues but Shobdon Airfield, home of Herefordshire Aero Club and originally a training base for Second World War glider pilots, is far more special than most. As part of the forthcoming Borderlines May Festival, a series of flight-themed films will be screened in one of the 1930s hangars, along with the chance to take trial flights in a two-seater Cessna plane.
Something To Declare: BMI domestic flights; Kenya; Eastern Easter; Icelandic spectacular
Friday 13 April 2012
Bargain of the week: BMI domestic flights
Former Gaddafi henchman arrested over crimes against humanity
Sunday 18 March 2012
Mauritania officials have arrested the former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, a leading figure in the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
Travel Challenge: Morocco
Friday 02 March 2012
Each week we invite three companies to give us their best deal for a specific holiday. Today: a week in Morocco for a family of four during the Easter holiday. All prices include flights from the UK.
Time goes by and Bogart's still a box-office hit
Wednesday 08 February 2012
Re-releases of classic films such as Casablanca and The Third Man are big business, discovers Geoffrey Macnab
Time goes by and Bogart is still a box-office hit
Wednesday 08 February 2012
Re-runs of classic films such as Casablanca are big business
Travel Challenge: Winter sun in Miami
Saturday 26 November 2011
Each week we invite three companies to offer us their best deal for a specific holiday. Today: a week in Miami in the New Year, flying non-stop from Heathrow on Saturday 14 January. Prices are per person, based on two sharing.
Talking to Terrorists, By Peter Taylor
Friday 02 September 2011
Drawing on 40 years reporting, the BBC's investigative reporter has produced an engrossing account of ruthless fanaticism. Starting with the IRA ("glaring inequalities... were the dry tinder"), Taylor provides insightful accounts of victims, interrogators and terrorists.
Stay The Night: Hotel & Spa Le Doge, Casablanca
Sunday 15 May 2011
Solve the proposal puzzle – do it by crossword
Monday 18 April 2011
In these days of spring and romance, it is reasonable to imagine Cupid can fire his arrow almost anywhere. Yet it is hard to imagine a place less imbued with matters of the heart than the smudgy black-and-white grid of a newspaper crossword, even if it is the Washington Post.
Inspired by Egypt, thousands protest on Moroccan streets
Monday 21 February 2011
Thousands of people flooded on to the streets of cities across Morocco yesterday, hoping to wrest some powers from the ruling monarchy in the first large protests inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt.
Abraham Serfaty: Political activist who fell foul of the French colonial authorities as well as Morocco's authoritarian King Hassan II
Friday 03 December 2010
Abraham Serfaty was a leading Moroccan Jewish dissident, who spent his life fighting for independence and democracy in his homeland, first against the French colonial rulers and then King Hassan II's absolute monarchy.
Bill Aucoin: Manager who masterminded the rise of KISS and made Billy Idol a solo star
Monday 12 July 2010
For all the braggadocio the KISS bassist and motormouth Gene Simmons exudes in interviews, he always acknowledges the role Bill Aucoin played in the emergence and the rise of the glam stadium-rockers.
World Cup City Diary: Cursed: The high price of corporate sponsorship
Sunday 27 June 2010








