If your family is clamoring for a Christmas ski vacation, and you're booking a little late in the game, call the resort, advises Margie Preman, reservations supervisor for Smugglers' Notch resort in Vermont.

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Now that BA has realized that an increasing number of its customers are eschewing shop front staff and call centers for the ease of online booking, the airline is closing the shutters on 17 of its U.K. Travel Shops and a Belfast-based customer call center.

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There is no central address database in Jersey for the health department to use to call about screenings and smears so Mrs Prior said they were reliant on women booking themselves in.

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