Simon Calder -- travel journalist and senior travel editor at The Independent newspaper -- said taking extra cash was the only additional precaution he'd take.

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The sacking followed a week of newspaper headlines about the Chelsea and England defender's alleged extra-marital affair with model Vanessa Perroncel, the ex-partner of England team-mate Wayne Bridge.

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Newspaper reports said about half of it will be paid for by extra borrowing.

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But thanks to the concession on contributions, millions of people, from newspaper delivery boys and waiters to pensioners on neighbourhood-watch schemes, can earn extra cash from jobs that would otherwise be priced off the market.

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