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Profile: Cosmetics queen Liz Earle

Liz Earle

Follow the beauty specialist from sourcing ingredients in Africa to the LA awards ceremonies

The best airline meals at 40,000ft

Which airline serves the best food? We test the high-flying contenders

£550 a night for a hotel in Edinburgh?

Can the city sustain a design-led hotel when companies are cutting business travel

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Bmi extends chauffeur service to UK's regional airports

Business travellers at Aberdeen, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester can now benefit from free transfers

Taxi war looms at Heathrow over minicab plan

Black cab drivers are threatening a blockade of Britain's biggest airport after BAA gave a green light to minicab drivers

Virgin cuts bag allowance for premium pax

Airline will reduce maximum weight for each bag from 32kg to 23kg from 23 September

Worse than babies on plane? Businessmen

Following our article on flying with infants, some readers called for families to be banned from planes. Matt Rudd thinks differently

Personal Tech 

The Memorex MiniMove iPod boombox will cost £59

Girls! Is this the gadget for you?

They're designed by women, for women, but are Memorex's new gizmos empowering or patronising?

BUSINESS TRAVEL PROFILES

Juergen Obermann, chief executive of GFT Inboxx

Profile: Tech boss Juergen Obermann

The chief executive of the information archiving company GFT Inboxx talks drunkenness and naked saunas

Keith Tilley, UK MD of disaster recovery company SunGard Availability

Profile: SunGard's Keith Tilley

The MD of the disaster recovery company talks about being a Who groupie and hammer-wielding taxi drivers

Profile: Money guru Frank Cochran

Despite the downturn, this financial adviser to the stars can still hop on a private jet to see his high-flying clients

Profile: House dresser Tina Jesson

How the property slump has affected the business travel of a company that makes empty houses more appealing

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Think Apartments, London SE1

Review: Think apartments, London SE1

This alternative to a hotel is handy for the City but it needs to sort out some teething problems

British Airways aircraft on the tarmac at Heathrow

British Airways makes further changes to winter schedule

Frequency on a number of Heathrow services reduced; Warsaw, Istanbul and Rome flights increased

Starbucks

O2 adds BT Openzone hotspots to mobile broadband package

Dongle users will be able to access wi-fi as part of their deal in 3,000 new locations including Starbucks

Review: Nokia N97

Nokia's most eagerly awaited phone in years takes handset customisation to a new level

BA to end four services and switch five to Heathrow

Airline to end Alicante, Krakow, Malta and Palma flights and transfer Barcelona, Gibraltar, Madrid, Malaga and Pisa flights from 25 October

Virgin Atlantic to get in-flight email and text messages from 2011

Carrier will upgrade onboard entertainment and communication systems on 10 new Airbus A330-300s

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Schiphol: Britain's favourite business airport?  

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Mark Frary, Business Travel Editor

Business gadgets

The N97 is available in black and white

Nokia N97

The latest review: Nokia's most eagerly awaited new phone in years

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Steve Keenan
 

This year will see the biggest-ever fall in travel from the UK - so the government is raising passport prices.  

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Steve Keenan, Online Travel Editor

Business hotels

Think Apartments, London SE1

Latest review: Think Apartments, London SE1

This alternative to a hotel is handy for the City but it needs to sort out some teething problems

Good Travel Gear

Sony’s latest 32GB NWZ-X1060 can store up to 8,000 songs or 120 hours of video. It has a sharp, 3in touchscreen and three levels of noise-cancelling. £280 (16GB £209); 0870 511 1999, <a href="http://www.sony.co.uk" target="new">sony.co.uk</a>

15 of the best travel and photography gadgets

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Virgin have reduced the baggage allowance to keep themselves competitive  

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