
Simon Calder
Senior Travel Editor at The Independent
Travel news/advice shared here, on TikTok @caldertravel and answering questions at weekends with my 5.30pm UK Instagram Live: https://t.co/qE5vXA5qw0
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msn.com | Simon Calder
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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aol.com | Simon Calder
One million pounds per day: that is how much fare dodging costs the country. TransPennine Express estimates one in 30 of its passengers does not have a valid ticket. Unsurprisingly, train operators are keen to catch people who set out to travel ticketless. But as today’s report from the Office for Rail and Road (ORR) shows: they can often be heavy-handed. Some people inadvertently find that they are travelling without a valid ticket simply because the fare system is so darn complicated.
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msn.com | Simon Calder
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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msn.com | Simon Calder
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Simon Calder
Simon Calder3 June 2025 at 2:47 am·3-min readAt the end of a flight of over 13 hours from Singapore to London Heathrow, the BBC’s Frank Gardner was kept waiting for over an hour and a half for assistance after all the other passengers had left the aircraft. The security correspondent has used a wheelchair since he was shot six times in an Al Qaeda gun attack in Saudi Arabia in 2004.
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RT @YouShouldHaveBT: Sailing around Croatian Islands. Simon says.... it's a great idea. Podcast 217 on https://t.co/C37pIoAtJB with Mick…

Heathrow: 21 March closure due to power failure. Review of the shutdown reveals electricity was restored to all airport terminals by 11am, 12 hours after the fire began. But arrivals were banned for the next seven hours. Departures resumed 10 hours later. https://t.co/skwv2ZR5qE

Man Utd and Spurs take healthy leads into their Europa League semi-finals tonight. Likely to be an all-England final in Bilbao on 21 May. Some air fares approaching £1,000 one way. Alternatives include indirect flights via Basel to Biarritz, then 3 trains. https://t.co/rnQrEfz0Th