Today is quarantine Thursday. At 5pm Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will deliver an update, via Twitter, on whether the travel ‘green list’ – the clutch of countries that we can travel to without facing two weeks of self-isolation on our return – has been further reduced. As it stands, there […]

Quarantine was imposed with just a few hours’ notice – AP British holidaymakers have been warned that “no travel is risk-free” and that “disruption is possible” by Downing Street, following the 11th-hour move to impose a quarantine on people returning from Spain.  The Prime Minister’s spokesman declined to say whether […]

cape town – Getty No more countries are to be added to the travel corridor list until the new year, although there may be some “emergency removals”. While announcing changes to the roster of quarantine-free destinations in his weekly update on Thursday evening, the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, confirmed via […]

lanzarote – Getty British travellers who are booked on a package holiday to the Canary Islands are unlikely to be offered full refunds, despite the archipelago being added to the UK’s quarantine list.  The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO) has not yet included the islands in its advisory against non-essential […]

Photograph: Anthony Devlin/AFP/Getty Images Thousands of travellers who agreed to rebook cancelled holidays – or accepted replacement vouchers – are facing a second wave of heartbreak as they find they can no longer take the trip they planned but the travel firm will not refund them. Over the spring and […]