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Shearings has launched new battlefield tours for this year to coincide with the centenary of World War I.

Small group tour specialist Back-Roads Touring has announced a new line up of trips for this year, from a journey to discover ?old pubs and great grub? in Shrewsbury to an eight-day Croatian Wilderness Sailing adventure to explore some of the country?s most remote islands.

Brittany Ferries starts new no-frills service, ?Brittany Ferries ?conomie?, from Portsmouth to Le Havre and Santander.

Carnival UK cruise passengers can now benefit from an enhanced selection of cruise insurance cover following a new partnership with Holiday Extras Travel Insurance.

Shearings has introduced two new itineraries to its river cruise programme following the success of its peaks campaign, which has seen river cruise sales up 13% year on year.

The Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) says that the longstanding question on the price of holidays during school holiday dates could be resolved by Government action to spread summer holiday dates over a longer period of time.

Finnair and fellow oneworld alliance members Japan Airlines and British Airways are now selling joint fares between Europe and Japan, for travel after April 1.

Following the success of its worldwide photography holidays, Exodus is enabling budding photographers to refine their skills closer to home with a series of new UK landscape and wildlife photography workshops.