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Advertisement Spain may need plenty of cava in stock for June, July and August, because it's the holiday destination Britons most want to visit for a post-lockdown summer getaway, according to data from a flight search site. Following the Prime Minister revealing his roadmap out of lockdown for England, Skyscanner delved into its databanks and kept tabs on booking and search volumes by Britons for summer 2021 holidays (meaning June, July and August) – and Spain is the most-booked destination by UK travellers since the announcement was made. It's also No1 by search volume and has seen a 170 ...

Flight bookings to Italy, Turkey and Greece were also seen to be on the rise. For Jon Thorne, traveller expert at Skyscanner, it is a positive sign of things to come.“It’s clear this was the news travellers were waiting for as we saw an immediate increase in bookings on Skyscanner following the announcement from the Prime Minister yesterday," he said. "We expect that over the next few weeks and months as details become clearer for what is needed to unlock overseas travel, we will see travellers continue to react positively. "We know from our data and speaking to our customers that there h...

The Subplot | Freeports, flexible floorspace, financing hotels 9 Feb 2021, 09:00Comments (1) Welcome to  Place North West. This week: will a Liverpool freeport with tentacles extending into Greater Manchester become a regional game-changer? With WeWork pondering a return to the acquisitions trail in Manchester, how will the flexible office sector make money and who will make it? Meanwhile,  Subplot takes a look at property industry donations to politics, and examines the tightening investment criteria for hotels. FREEPORT FIZZLE Déjà vu all over again Bids for the UK’s first 10 next-ge...

“I LOVE pop music, don’t get me wrong. I love a well-put-together pop song. But there’s a real beauty and excitement in exploring what’s going to happen when you just go into a room with someone and you don’t really know what anyone’s going to bring to the table.” Near the end of our conversation, James Yorkston is summing up what for him is so often the starting point. The musician, songwriter, Fifer, is no stranger to collaborating with new musicians and surprising everyone, including himself. “It can be thrilling,” he says. “It can be a disaster as well, of course...

The 10 best folk albums of 2020 Jude Rogers 10. Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn – Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn Behold the Banjo Guzheng Pickin’ Girls, as goes the title of one the many joyous collaborations here, bringing together diverse traditional music from China’s marginalised communities and the clawhammer banjo style that began in west Africa before being claimed by the American south. In many tracks – such as the gorgeous Water Is Wide/Wusuli Boat Song, a weaving-together of a Scottish ballad with a Hezhe traditional – this record is a constant celebration of how ...