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Sun 4 U goes bust with
1,200 holidaymakers stranded abroad
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The
travel firm Sun 4 U has collapsed, leaving around 1,200 British
holidaymakers stranded abroad.
People who have booked their holiday through Sun 4 U have to check
with the airline and hotel to see if they can still travel Photo:
PA A spokeswoman for the travel organisation Abta said those already
abroad with Atol (Air Travel Operators' Licensing) packages should
be able to continue with their holidays as planned.
She said that
people who have booked holidays with Sun 4 U through their travel
agent but have yet to travel would be able to get their money
back if they were covered as an Atol package. However, she said
they would not be able to go on the holiday.She added that those
who had booked the whole holiday through Sun 4 U - which specialised
in Spanish holidays - would have to check with the airline and
hotel to see if they could still travel.
She said such
customers were likely to be able to continue with their holiday,
as separate contracts exist between them and the hotel and airline.
The names and
contact details of the hotel should be on the travel documents,
the spokeswoman said.
The Birmingham-based
firm announced it had ceased trading on its website. Sun 4 U's
demise is likely to generate fears that more travel companies
could meet a similar fate.
The firm is
understood to have been a victim of a downturn in bookings due
to the ash cloud crisis earlier this year. According to reports,
some 40 members of staff at its call centre were informed of the
collapse on Thursday morning.
A statement
on the company's website read: "Sun 4 U Limited has ceased
trading as of 11th August 2010 at 2100hrs. For further information
please contact ABTA's claim handlers CEGA on 01243 621 500."
The collapse
of Sun4U follows the recent failure of tour operator Goldtrail
Holidays.
Around
16,000 Goldtrail customers were abroad when the Greece and Turkey
specialist went into administration last month.
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Queen Sofia shows green credentials
in a new electric car |
Queen Sofia has been driving a prototype electric car in order to
promote green transport to the Spanish population.
Queen Sofia's zero-emission Peugeot iONn has a battery life of 80
miles Spain’s socialist government had hoped to get 2,000
green cars on the road by the end of the year but so far only 16
of the vehicles have been sold.
Queen
Sofia was photographed during her Majorcan holiday behind the wheel
of the Peugeot iON, a zero-emission electric vehicle with a battery
life of 80 miles.
She
declared that her test-drive around the Majorcan capital, Palma,
where the royal family holidays each summer, was “phenomenal”.
The
government hopes that her jaunt will help boost sales of electric
cars in Spain, which pledged to have a million on the road within
four years.
Jose
Luis Rodriquez Zapatero, the prime minister, has made electric car
sales a centrepeice of his green agenda, promising to install battery
top-up points in petrol stations and disused telephone booths across
the country.
In
April, the government said it would invest 590 million euros (£490
million) in the production of electric cars. A subsidy scheme of
80 million euros is in place to encourage sales, with the government
funding 20 per cent of each purchase, or up to 6,000 euros per car.
The
Peugot iON has been lent to Queen Sofia for her month’s holiday
at the Marivent palace, where the Spanish royal family spends each
August. Sent from Japan, it is a prototype that will not come on
the market until December
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a record jackpot payout of £126 Million, EuroMillions
is a massive, lump sum, tax-free, pan-European lottery that
can roll over up to TEN TIMES! Operated jointly by the UK,
France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal
and Switzerland national lotteries, it is played every Friday
night and televised on BBC1 in the UK, TF1 in France and TVE
in Spain. To win the jackpot, players must match their selected
five main numbers (1-50) and 2 "Lucky Star" numbers
(1-9) with those drawn. Besides the jackpot, there are other
prizes to be won if players match as few as two main numbers
and one Lucky Star, or one main number and two Lucky Stars! |
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