The steel erector Severfield Rowen, which is working on the City's Cheesegrater skyscraper, counted the cost of the "most challenging year in its history" yesterday as it crashed to a £21.5m loss.

Now... Jardins d'Issil is a camp of luxury tents near Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains, with a communal pool and restaurant. Throughout June, Fleewinter is offering three nights' B&B for £275pp with transfers and easyJet flights from Gatwick. Fleewinter.com

Flybe has hit out at the owners of Gatwick, claiming the airline's decision to sell 25 take-off and landing slots at the base to easyJet for £20m was due to the airport's "discriminatory" treatment of smaller airlines.

10-kilo haul seized from baggage after arrival of flight from Jamaica

Ministers have received more than 12,000 complaints from constituents opposing today's hike in air passenger duty (APD), although the Government still opted to push through the rise.

In the build-up to Easter, the travel industry has talked up the number of British travellers seeking sun abroad after the coldest March in 50 years

Almost everybody seems depressed by the constant chill weather. But our Head of Travel has a handy guide for how to beat the gloom in Spring. Try Barcelona!

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The deputy chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority and former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority, Sir Roy McNulty, was today appointed chairman of Gatwick Airport.

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Why does Manchester want another airport – surely it’s already got one?

The four men who were arrested by detectives investigating people travelling to Syria in support of terrorist activity have been released without charge, Scotland Yard said tonight.

Four men have been arrested by counter-terrorism officers investigating the kidnapping of a British photographer in Syria.

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