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Thinking about this, I recall a holiday in Venice where the travel arrangements were a Eurostar to Paris, followed by an overnight train from Paris to Venice. Only the first leg was bought in London. The train to Venice was bought in Paris. My recollection is that this was cheaper than paying...

This suggests purchasing and paying for the holiday before leaving the UK. Am I alone in thinking that the best deals in Europe can be found by turning up at your destination and then looking for accommodation? I would usually book travel from the UK though.

How is it possible? Simple. It's a consequence of a genuinely held belief that "too much red tape" was holding back development and that deregulation was required to correct this. I was once a member of a working party charged by the Blair government to identify opportunities to abolish...

And Falmer Station is always closed when there is a music festival in Stanmer Park, but not when there is a football match at the Amex. Why? Only one of these events is dealt with by employing trained staff to supervise and deal with the overcrowding. It's not the overcrowding itself that...

I understand the principle. But, in other areas of life, it's isn't the case that finding a situation that is "unsafe" leads automatically to a decision to close down a facility. For example ... a railway station platform is "unsafe", if it gets overcrowded. The solution to this problem isn't...

This seems to be a decision that is at odds with the standard risk assessment methodology that I was taught. The likelihood of a major fire breaking out tonight is small, surely? Would it not be sufficient to draft in a team of fire wardens to watch for a fire and, should one arise, instigate...

Isn't it Virgin Media who are responsible for the temporary lights on the C7? And Highways England for the A26? ESCC are innocent of both.

'C' roads are given their numbers by the local Highway Authority (in the case of this C7 - Newhaven to Lewes - East Sussex County Council). There will be other C7s in other counties. It's rare for C roads to be widely referred to by their numbers. The C7 is an exception because it only got...

When the section of Western Road immediately in front of Marks and Spencer was made buses, taxis and cycles only, one of the strongest supporters of the change was the manager of M&S.

But look at the statistics. In 2014, 25 million passenger journeys were made by train in Greater Manchester. Buses carried 225 million passengers. And trams took 30 million. Any local transport system is going to depend very heavily on buses. Even if the trams are good.

It always used to be English's Oyster Bar, but things may have changed in recent years. Worth a try, though, especially if you like fish and chips.

I remember my dad asking my grandad a similar question. Grandad's answer was simple. "You should do what I do. First you do a seven year apprenticeship. And then it's easy".

Oh I see. Following the Albion has now taken us into that place where "everyone who follows football" resides. I had a funny feeling things were going wrong.

Can't agree. But I'm the sort of pedant who expects pundits to make it clear that when they refer to "Barcelona" they are not referring to Bevendean Barcelona.

Can I just put in a moan and ask people to stop referring to Manchester United simply as "United"? Other Uniteds are available, for example at Newcastle or West Ham. Likewise "City". Not everyone immediately thinks of Stoke, Swansea or Leicester.

Not a picture from a long time ago. The woman at the bottom right of the mural is Arlene Foster, who was elected leader of the DUP only 18 months ago.

A person of interest isn't necessarily someone suspected of being a jihadist. I was a person of interest once. At least I was sufficiently interesting for Special Branch to turn up at my local pub and ask the landlord about people I associated with. This was all because my job as a transport...

My kids went to a Church of England primary school as well. Not from "choice", but because it was the only primary school within five miles of where we lived. As for the quality of education, it was variable. They learnt all about electricity and they can still remember what they were told:-...

I'm surprised that no-one has picked up on the threat from self-employed taxi drivers. Or maybe it's simply the case that some people imagine that protecting the public from terrorism is a piss-easy job that can be done by anyone with a tick box form to fill in?

Someone has to stump up to pay the players' wages and keep the Porsche dealers in business. I guess I just have to be grateful that I've had a season ticket to renew.