Opt only for the basic package You can save money while renting a car by purchasing the basic package. A big chunk of the total profit of car rentals comes from selling exorbitant add-ons to non-suspecting tourists. Turn a deaf ear when the attendant tries to lure you in purchasing their collision damage waiver (CDW for short) or so-called super CDW insurance that provides coverage to “excess”, which can run up to anything between €800 and €2,500, excluded in the...

Urban running is becoming very popular with city dwellers who despite the fact that they have extremely busy work schedules; push to make time to keep fit through the cities ample footpaths. Running with the aid of a running band is the common norm as most people carry a smart phone with them through their day and either don’t have anywhere safe to store the phone while they workout or actually need the phone with them. There are countless health...

The Other Side of Hope concerns itself with the struggles of two contrasting men who have both left their homes. One is Khlaed (Sherwan Haji), a Syrian asylum seeker who arrives in Helsinki via a dozen other European countries and who hopes to have finally found a new home. The other is Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), who leaves his alcoholic wife and life as a shirt salesman, and is soon seen risking his life savings in a poker game. After winning...

An 18-year-old Iranian immigrant who is a self-made millionaire is donating €100,000 to victims of the Manchester terror attack. Alireza Dehghan, CEO of DPPM Holdings in London, gave the huge donation following Monday night's attacks which killed 22 people and wounded 64. So far over £4 million has been raised for the victims of the Manchester terror attack. In addition, Alireza has created a hotline for victims who need help. This help may include medical coverage, housing, transportation needs or just someone to talk...

Highways England is lifting more than 300 miles of roadworks to help people travelling this May bank holiday. Almost 98 per cent of motorways and strategic A roads will be roadworks-free over the bank holiday. Highways England is completing 184 and suspending 162 miles of roadworks by 6am on 26 May until 12.01am on 30 May. By suspending or completing roadworks, more lanes will be open and many speed restrictions will be lifted. Here's a complete guide to the roadworks...

Residents today slammed ex-Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson and his two co-presenters for 'causing chaos' in a quaint Yorkshire village during filming of the Grand Tour. Householders say they were forced to take a 10 mile detour from one side of their village to the other after TV and security staff closed off all local roads without notice. Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May and their TV crew descended on the quaint village of Farnley Tyas, near Huddersfield, West Yorks,...

I suppose there really is a first time for everything. One starts to firmly believe that there is nothing – nothing! - new to be found between the covers of a book. After all, Aristotle nailed down the six elements of plot twenty-four hundred years ago and even the most experimental, supposedly plotless modern fiction has within it a structure just as finely tuned and balanced as the honeycomb of a bee hive. Well, if it's any good anyway. After...

A former nurse claims she is being forced to live in her car and eat dog food because of swinging cuts to her benefits. Ann Cumberland-Quinn, 56, say she has struggled since her Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was stopped following a review in December. She was then dealt a further blow when her Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) benefit was slashed to £250 a fortnight from £375 in February of this year under government cuts. Ann has been living in...

When Rainer Becker opened Roka – a high-end ‘Modern Japanese’ restaurant – in Fitzrovia during 2004, the space soon became renowned for attracting punters that would have made today’s Novikov, Nobu and Sexy Fish crowds seem desirable. On a humid Wednesday some 13 years later, still, I’m sat in the downstairs bar at a table beside an obnoxious, overfed Texan - boasting of how he allegedly knows Prince Charles. Wearing a white body-con Ralph Lauren shirt (possibly from the children’s...