Thinking of summer sun?

As January approaches, a lot of people are starting to think about their 2009 travel plans. There are lots of bargains to be had already with big high street brands launching their TV adverts and the sales starting. It still pays to look around and TripBuster.co.uk is the ideal website to find the deals from all the top travel companies aswell as the smaller independent agents.

TripBuster.co.uk has just launched two new searches - holidays and car hire - so not only can you find flight and accommodation, you can compare prices and deals for all your travel needs in one place.

XL Leisure Group is no more

Unfortunately, XL Leisure Group Plc is no longer. Yet another travel company to be affected by rising fuel costs, the group comprising XL Airways UK Limited, Excel Aviation Limited, Explorer House Limited, Aspire Holidays Limited, Freedom Flights Limited, Freedom Flights (Aviation) Limited, The Really Great Holiday Company plc, Medlife Hotels Limited, Travel City Flights Limited, Kosmar Villa Holidays plc went into administration on 12 August 2008.

In an interview on GMTV last week, an ATOL spokesman said that passengers yet to travel should make alternative arrangements, while those already on holiday will be brought home on flights arranged by the Civil Aviation Authority.

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R.E.M., Amsterdam, 2 July 2008

R.E.M. bring their 2008 tour in support of new album, Accelerate, to the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.

Twenty-five years after the release of their debut album Murmur, R.E.M. are now established as one of the world's biggest rock bands. Several years of cult success primed Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry for the mainstream, which they entered in 1987 with the hit single The One I Love.

The band have gone on to give us standards like Losing My Religon, Man On The Moon and Everybody Hurts, all from the early Nineties when they first tasted huge international success.

Despite losing Berry, one of the founding foursome, in 1997, the group have continued to produce popular albums. Reveal (2001) was universally applauded as a return to their early 1990s glory days and the new album has been hailed as their best for years.

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Radiohead, Paris, 9 - 10 Jun 2008

British quintet Radiohead bring their 2008 tour on the back of new album, In Rainbows, to the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy for two nights.

After an overtly experimental period when they put out Kid A and Amnesiac, the band released the more traditional and accessible Hail to the Thief in 2003, featuring spiky guitars and rock drumming. Five years later, they merely had to announce on their website that their new album was ready to send shockwaves through the contemporary music scene.

The new release finds the band in an optimistic mood. Stripped-down but as compelling as ever, shimmering layers of guitars and effects over metronomic beats provide the base for Thom Yorke's keening vocals.

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The new Skybargains.com finally launches

The new Skybargains.com site finally launched last week, bringing together the ajax technology we previewed in IWantToFly.co.uk and SkyVillas.co.uk - along with the new Flight + Hotel search route.

We've also revisited the Travel Guides section (utilising our new GeoData system) with lots of information on the top travel destinations around the globe.

The Matrix arrives on IWantToFly.co.uk

We've just launched a great new tool on the I Want To Fly website - The Matrix View.

This great new tool allows customers looking for flights to quickly and easily compare flight prices from other airports in their region, over a 14-day period, highlighting the cheapest fare for them. It's great if they are flexible and can save them loads!