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Virgin opens new stores
Virgin Holidays has opened two more stores within Tesco outlets this week.
The first to open this week was in Tesco Extra, Town Lane, Southport, followed by Lakeside, which opens today and which is the 119th Virgin store.
Seven more will open by the end of the year, in Redditch, Ashby de la Zouch, Dundee, Telford, High Wycombe Loudwater, Gillingham and Chesterfield.
Meanwhile, sister company Virgin Atlantic has selected CTC Aviation to train all its future pilots.
The initial course of six recruits will train at CTC Aviation’s new generation Crew Training Centres in both the UK and US.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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