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- Passengers must wait for BA strike datesUnion leaders representing thousands of British Airways cabin crew kept the airline waiting for any decisions on strikes today after again holding back from announcing dates for industrial action.
- Ambitious £30bn high-speed rail network proposedAn ambitious £30 billion plan for a high-speed rail (HSR) network was proposed today by the Government.
- Hopes raised for battered airline industryHopes for the battered airline industry were raised today after the global aviation body predicted a strong recovery this year as passengers take to the skies again.
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Steve Keenan of the Times Online has put together a list of what he considers to be the 20 best travel books of the past century.
Topping the list is Wilfrid Thesiger’s “The Danakil Diary - Journeys through Abyssinia, 1930 -4″, in which the explorer and historian documents his 1930s trip to the country now known as Ethiopia.
Other books that made it onto the list include Paul Theroux’s “The Great Railway Bazaar”, Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning”, Bill Bryson’s “Notes From a Small Island” and Colin Thubron’s “The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom”.