The Swiss city of Zurich is to open drive-in sex boxes in an attempt to rid the town of street prostitution. Zurich council has approved a plan to build the boxes, which will, it hopes, provide a discreet location for prostitutes and their clients to conduct business when they open in August next year. Read Article
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UK Safety and Travel Advice for Belgium There has been a series of robberies and express kidnappings on or around the motorway connecting Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ghent, Dunkirk and the Channel Ports. Theft and pick pocketing is a problem in crowded areas. You should take extra care, particularly of your belongings and passports, […]
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UK Safety and Travel Advice for Switzerland Crime Most visits to Switzerland are trouble-free. There is a generally low rate of serious crime in Switzerland compared with other European countries. However, crime does occur and you should be aware that petty theft has become a concern, especially in the Geneva area and larger cities. Be […]
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UK advice for travel to Luxembourg Safety and Security – Terrorism There is an underlying threat from terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers. See our terrorism abroad page. Safety and Security – Crime You are advised to take the usual sensible precautions against crime. Safety and Security […]
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At around 2am on March 7, the group arrived back at their Earls Court hotel having spent the evening at a Sports Bar in Piccadilly Circus. Unfortunately, rather than going to sleep like the rest of the group, two of the students decided they would see what Earls Court had to offer in terms of […]
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Many of us are guilty of taking a power nap at work but the cockpit of an airplane isn’t the best place to try to fit in forty winks. Yet alarmingly more than four in ten British pilots admit to having fallen asleep at the controls of a passenger jet, according to a new survey. […]
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Municipal workers took strike action and protested throughout Greece Tuesday to protest the latest €13.5 billion ($17 billion) austerity measures being imposed by the three-party coalition government. During the day municipal (Poe-Ota) workers struck and occupied many government buildings nationwide. Two-thirds of Greece’s 325 municipalities were closed to the public due to the strikes and […]
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Visiting supporters from English Premier League club Tottenham have been injured after suspected hardline fans of Lazio attacked a pub in the Italian capital, Rome, in the latest targeting of foreign fans. Lazio host Tottenham at the Olympic Stadium later on Thursday for a Europa League match to which England icon Paul Gascoigne, a former […]
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The Autonomous Region of Madeira constituted the first known occurrence of locally transmitted dengue infection on the island on 3 October 2012 when the Public Health Authority of Portugal reported two cases of dengue infection in residents. These infections in patients residing in Madeira mark the first sustained transmission of dengue in the European Union […]
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Forecasters predict winds of up to 100mph and 40mm of rain on Saturday and Sunday The Met Office says rain will return on Monday and snow could hit in North on Tuesday Man in his 70s killed as Mitsubishi Shogun is washed away in Chew Stoke, near Bristol Environment Agency issues 75 flood warnings and […]
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