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Sun 4 U goes bust with 1,200 holidaymakers stranded abroad | ||||
The
travel firm Sun 4 U has collapsed, leaving around 1,200 British
holidaymakers stranded abroad. 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 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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