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Britons Go Abroad For Healthcare
[Insurance:Health] While Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was out marching to protest against NHS plans to downgrade his local hospital in Chichester a few weekends ago - aptly named St. Richard's - record numbers of Britons continue to fly abroad for medical treatment. Last year Britons spent £60m on overseas treatments. Main reasons were lower prices, NHS waiting lists, a better choice of alternative medical treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics such as those in Marbella where many patients choose to combine procedures with a break in the sun to return home looking better on the outside and feeling better on the inside.

Sunny Outlook For Spain's Sunshine Coast
[Travel-and-Leisure] This year's World Travel Market at London's Excel Exhibition Centre in November not only drew record crowds, but one of the most popular stands was that of the Andalucia Tourist Board. The four day event, which hosted 5402 exhibitors from over 200 regions and countries attracted visitors from every corner of the world, with numbers up by 2 per cent on last year's event according to WTM Chairman Fiona Jeffery.

Tenerife Is Tops
[Travel-and-Leisure] When Brits fancy a short break, Tenerife, it seems, is often top of their list and with its year-round promise of sunshine, and short flight times, it's perhaps not too surprising. In fact, the island took first place in a poll of UK travel agents, for a survey by travel industry magazine Short Breaks and Holidays. Tenerife was the short getaway destination of choice for groups of friends and families, and an award in recognition was presented to the island's tourism authorities at the 2007 World Travel Market in London.

Blank Cheques For Environmental Destruction?
[News-and-Society:Environmental] A stand in defence of many thousands of migratory birds was made before the European Parliament by Tosh Todorov, who lives and works on the Costa del Sol. Todorov, Duty Manager at Club La Costa Resorts & Hotels, had been invited by the Green Party (Los Verdes) in southern Spain to present his case against European Investment Bank funding of a motorway that would detrimentally affect the birds' migratory routes. It was an attempt, as a member of the 'Colectivo Ornitologico Ciguena Negra' (Black Stork Ornithological Collective), to block what signifies for...