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Plymouth Enjoys Financial Boost as Cruise Bookings Double

Plymouth ’s growing cruise business has seen bookings double, bringing in an extra £1.5million spend to the city this year.

That’s the figure gathered from the thousands of passengers and crew from the flotilla of ships visiting Britain’s Ocean City.

Industry data claims that on average Each cruise visitor spends around £90, however, Plymouth and the surrounding economy also...

Cruising the Med with MSC

Travel Editor, David Powell, experiences a Mediterranean fly-cruise on MSC’s luxurious cruise ship Preziosa ..

‘Life should be measured in moments, not minutes’

As MSC say ... life should be measured in moments, not minutes, and my first moment on Preziosa was just one of many on this spectacular cruise ship. Having just boarded we headed for deck 14 and a special ‘welcome...

Britannia Wows!

Travel Editor, David Powell, takes a mini cruise on the fabulous new P&O cruise ship Britannia

It was shortly after 6am when I looked out of my hotel bedroom window. The sun was up early as well, slowly rising over the Ocean Cruise Terminal at Southampton. Then I spotted her for the first time! P&O’s newest cruise ship, proudly showing off a unique version of the Union Jack on...

Veteran comedy actor Frank Thornton dies at 92

It has been announced that Frank Thornton, the much-loved comedy star of Are You Being Served? and Last Of The Summer Wine died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday at the age of 92.

Thornton will be most fondly remembered for playing Captain Peacock in Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft's 1970s and 80s BBC sitcom, Are You Being Served?

In later years he starred as Truly alongside...