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TripVision® is the most advanced integrated commercial vehicle health and safety management solution available through leading telematics providers. The application presents real-time vehicle information in an easy-to-understand format, bringing clarity to the complexity of fleet health and safety management. Regardless of make and model, TripVision provides actionable information about every vehicle, empowering fleets to decrease repair costs, reduce unexpected breakdowns, and maximize vehicle uptime.

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Trip.com Group Unveils Trip.Vision App, Transforming Travel Experiences through Apple Vision Pro

Trip.com Group, a leading global travel provider, has launched its innovative Trip.Vision app, designed to leverage the advanced capabilities of Apple’s latest mixed-reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro.

One of the apps developed exclusively for the Apple Vision Pro, Trip.Vision promises a ground-breaking approach to travel exploration, offering users a unique and immersive experience of popular destinations worldwide.

Trip.Vision – Bringing the world to you

Upon donning the Apple Vision Pro headset and entering the app, users can immerse themselves in the beauty of global landscapes through 360-degree panoramic videos. Detailed attraction information and engaging voiceovers contribute to a powerful and educational mixed reality experience, bringing the world’s top travel destinations right into your living room.

Utilising the wide landscape settings and robust spatial computing of the Apple Vision Pro, Trip.Vision users are in for a treat with crystal-clear, high-definition scenes surpassing the resolution of a 4K TV. With the panoramas expanding and wrapping around the user, this creates a sensation that they are standing right at the travel destination they’ve chosen, providing a wanderlust-inducing preview of the world that awaits their exploration.

The Vision Pro interface, entirely responsive to the user's eyes, hands, and voice, also eliminates the need for additional controls. Moreover, the high-tech audio system is designed to envelop users, creating the sensation that sounds emanate from right within their physical space.

According to Mr Bo Sun, Chief Marketing Officer of Trip.com Group, the app will redefine the way we think about travel: “The Trip.Vision app revolutionises the travel experience by allowing users to virtually immerse themselves in renowned destinations, enhancing their itinerary planning. This marks a whole new approach, where the exploration begins before the booking, and every destination becomes a story waiting to unfold.”

Aligning with Trip.com Group's mission to create the perfect trip for a better world, Trip.Vision elevates the travel experience from the very start by bringing the beauty of the world’s favourite travel spots within arm's reach, fostering a zero-distance connection for users.

Continuing the tradition of travel innovation

Trip.com Group has been staying at the forefront of innovation in the travel technology sphere, as exemplified by the launch of the AI travel assistant TripGenie in 2023. This nifty AI assistant leverages large language model technologies to provide users with a more personal, intuitive, and hassle-free travel planning experience. Just by asking it a simple question within the Trip.com platform, TripGenie can help travellers plan travel itineraries and offer personalised recommendations in flight and hotel lists, all in a matter of seconds.

To add depth and richness to the travel planning experience, Trip.com also has curated lists that leverage AI technology to address users' diverse needs and preferences, providing real-time updates on travel trends, prices, and top-ranked hotels, flights, and attractions. Known as ‘Trip.Trends’, ‘Trip.Best’, and ‘Trip.Deals’ respectively, you can be inspired by the latest travel trends, as well as uncover the best deals and insider travel destinations – all based on your interests.

Trip.Vision’s development is the latest step along this innovative path, paving the way for virtual reality to take travel into a new paradigm shift. Mr Sun shares: “The launches of Trip.Vision and TripGenie are a testament to our dedication to enhancing travel experiences through innovation. We aim to stay ahead of the curve in terms of travel technology and set new standards in the industry. This is a sign of our commitment to continually improve our offerings for our valued customers and partners, refreshing their travel experience in new and exciting ways.”

The Trip.Vision app is now available on the U.S. App Store for Apple Vision Pro.

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Real-Time Vehicle Health and Safety Management

Predictive Faults

Alert users on faults that are likely to escalate into bigger problems so you can avoid roadside breakdowns and expensive repairs.

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Force a DPF regen, perform an ACM reset, enable/disable idle shutdown, or modify maximum road and cruise speeds.

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Be alerted on maintenance issues that can be resolved without third party repair services.

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See fleet information like easy-to-understand fault details and effects on vehicles as well detailed information in regards to maintenance required.

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View fault histories for each vehicle, or send maintenance professionals a PDF with detailed vehicle and fault information including fault lookup information, detailed descriptions and FMI data.

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Fleets of all sizes utilize Noregon’s TripVision to save money by reducing breakdowns and improving their maintenance/service routines. TripVision monitors all electronic components on all makes of heavy-duty trucks, resulting in a holistic view of issues affecting the health, safety, or performance status of fleet vehicles.

 TripVision’s predictive fault technology empowers fleets to act on issues before they escalate into more serious problems. Geotab users can add TripVision to their existing hardware today and gain a whole new level of insight into their most important assets.

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Is a Vision Trip Right for You?

Ever tried on snazzy red sweater only to find it makes you look like a tomato? Or discovered that you actually love your cousin’s boring hand-me-downs?

Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way we expect.

It’s why clothing stores provide fitting rooms, colleges arrange campus visits and employers conduct interviews. And it’s why TEAM offers v ision trips .

A vision trip is a short-term experience designed to help globally-minded Christians explore life on the mission field. Participants travel to see ministries up close, encounter a new culture and spend quality time with current missionaries.

To go on a vision trip, you don’t have to be certain God is calling you to cross-cultural missions. You just have to be willing to ask if he is.

A vision trip is not a short-term mission trip.

On the surface, a vision trip might look and sound like a short-term mission trip . However, a vision trip’s unique purpose distinguishes it as an important tool in exploring a life of cross-cultural ministry.

A short-term mission trip is for people who know God has called them to serve for a short time. On a mission trip, you dive right into a more specific ministry role and participate as fully as possible in the life of the community there.

Vision trips, on the other hand, are designed to help anyone who is exploring a call to missions experience what it would be like to actually be a missionary for a longer term.

Over 10-14 days, you get a feel for it’s like to live and minister in a foreign context as you interact with a new culture, language and people. You’ll take local transportation, taste new foods, ask missionaries candid questions and attend ministry events.

Each team of four to six participants is lead by a missions mobilizer, who is there to help you process your questions, concerns and excitements as they surface.

A vision trip helps you discern how and if you are called to cross-cultural missions.

When Kayla took a vision trip to the Middle East last summer, she had a strong sense that God was calling her to missions. But with a Physical Education degree, she struggled to see how her skills would specifically fit on the mission field.

While in the Middle East, Kayla learned about job opportunities she could pursue for ministry such as teaching at a health center or physical training.

She met with local missionaries and their ministry partners and was inspired by the impact she saw they were having in a region with very few Christians. Gaining this context helped Kayla to clearly imagine how she could contribute to the Gospel ministry there, too.

Kayla also got a sense of what a daily routine could be like living in the Middle East. She dressed modestly, visited local markets and malls, ate cultural cuisine and took local transportation. These cultural experiences — some easy and some difficult to adapt to — gave Kayla the insight she needs to fully “count the cost” of serving in a Middle Eastern context.

Ultimately, Kayla’s experience illuminated her desire to move forward in pursuing a long-term missionary service . But, a successful vision trip could be going and understanding that you are not called to go overseas yet or at all.

For example, maybe through working with international students in Spain , you are led to return home to teach ESL in your city. Or maybe through a trip to Mexico , you experience a connection to the culture and ministry there, and return next summer for a short-term mission trip.

Whether God is calling you to go or send, a vision trip will help you discern how God is calling to participate in the Great Commission.

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Travel Vision Board Ideas: Making Your Travel Dreams Come True

Are you looking for travel vision board ideas to help you transform your dreams into reality? Sometimes, trip planning is relatively easy and there is no need for extra motivation to make it happen. But often there are major obstacles between us and our hopes for travel.

As an experienced travel coach , I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges people face in reaching their travel goals. Whether it is finding money and time for a family vacation , gaining the skills and knowledge needed for a first time solo trip, or making the transition to becoming a digital nomad or expat– life can easily get in the way of reaching our goals and prevent us from attaining them.

I’ve also seen the power of visualization and goal setting in helping individuals achieve their travel dreams. One technique that many prefer is the creation of a travel vision board. This method aligns your goals with images and words, helping to make those dream destinations and travel lifestyle choices a reality. 

In this guide, we’ll delve into travel vision boarding and explore some of the research on its effectiveness. Then we will offer practical steps to create your own board using different mediums. We will also look at alternative methods for visualizing travel dreams. And throughout the article, we will talk about ways to use these techniques to keep your travel aspirations front and center.

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The Science Behind Travel Vision Boards

Vision boards work on the principle of visualization, a technique supported by research in the field of psychology and neuroscience. Visualization activates the same neural networks that actual task performance does, enhancing motivation, confidence, and performance. Translating this to travel vision boarding, by picturing our travel goals, we stimulate the same cognitive processes, making our aspirations more tangible and achievable.

There are additional studies that show vision boards help in the area of “value tagging.” Our brains are constantly evaluating the barrage of external stimulation and deciding what is important and deserves more attention. Creating a travel vision board and referencing it frequently can help your brain prioritize your travel goals.

Interestingly, there are studies that show visualization of reaching our goals, without visualizing the steps needed to get there, can actually hinder achieving them. So an essential step is creating a viable plan for reaching our travel dreams. Vision boards are only an early step in the process. Consider adding images of the intermediary steps to your vision board. For example, my husband and I are working towards living aboard a sailboat and traveling the world. So one of my personal visuals is picturing myself comfortably docking the boat in a slip– one of my fears that I am committed to working on repeatedly this summer!

Finally, it is important to remember that there are many things outside of our control and it is very harmful to assume that imperfect visualization skills cause poor health, social and economic inequality, and many other challenges that interfere with our travel goals. Travel goal visualization is simply a tool that can help us reach our dreams. But it can be a very helpful and enjoyable one, so let’s get started!

How to Make a Vision Board

The best way to make a vision board is to allow yourself to be visually inspired as you imagine your future. Humans are highly visual creatures and the old saying that a picture speaks a thousand words is true. Have fun with this creative process! 

Your board will be more helpful if you eventually have specific goals, such as “I will take my first solo trip to The Netherlands in the spring of 2025 and see the tulip fields,”  instead of, “I will travel more.” But you might not know your specific goals at the beginning–  and that is completely fine! Be open to the process and know that it is changeable. Your vision board is a living document and will evolve over time. Also know that your vision board is yours, you can share it with others only if you choose to– so be brave and put your dreams out there. 

Vision Board Travel– Journal Prompts Before You Start

Before diving into the vision board, it’s helpful to reflect on your deeper hopes and intentions about your travel experiences. Here are some journal prompts to get you started:

1. What are the top places you want to see or return to? Describe what draws you to these places.

2. What do I want to gain from my travels (e.g., adventure, connection, learning, relaxation, cultural immersion)?

3. How do I want to feel during and after my travels?

4. What are my top three travel goals for the next year? Five years?

5. What steps will I need to take to reach those goals?

These prompts aim to clarify your travel intentions, serving as a foundation for your vision board. Spend time journaling, in self-reflection, and/or in conversation with trusted family or friends as you explore them. Consider working with a travel coach who will provide much deeper opportunities for self-reflection about your travel goals and support you in crafting a plan to reach them.

Travel Vision Board Ideas and Creation Steps

1. physical travel vision board, materials needed:.

– A large poster board or cork board

– Travel vision board pictures: magazines, brochures, photographs, postcards, or printed images

– Push pins, Glue, or tape

– Markers or paint for annotations

– Vision board clip art or scrapbooking supplies (Side note: my mom used to sell craft supplies so I have worked with hundreds of these fun additions to vision boards. Of course, if your house isn’t overflowing with craft supplies already, you would need to purchase these, but you could go in on some with a friend!)

Optional Travel Vision Board Supplies

1. Reflect on your journal answers and begin collecting images that resonate with your travel goals.

2. Arrange these travel pictures for vision boards, grouping them in a way that makes sense to you—by dream destinations, experiences, or feelings.

3. Annotate with motivational quotes, travel goals, and dates to add context and agency.

4. Place your vision board somewhere you’ll see it daily, like your bedroom or workspace, to keep your travel aspirations top of mind.

2. Canva Travel Vision Board

Tools Needed

– Free Canva account

• Open Canva at canva.com
• Type “vision board” into search bar
• Choose a design you like
• Click “Customize this template”
• Click on any section of the template to personalize it
• Change the text to include aspirational words from your journal responses
• Change images by choosing “photos” from the sidebar
• Add your own photos by clicking on “uploads”
• When you are done click “share.” You can print it or email it to yourself and use it as a screensaver on your phone or computer

3. Pinterest Travel Vision Board

Tools Needed:

– A free Pinterest account

1. Create a Pinterest board or multiple boards dedicated to your travel dreams.

2. Populate them with images, quotes, and anything that aligns with your travel goals.

3. Check out the Trip Scholars’ Pinterest Page for ideas to get started!

3. Regularly update it with new inspirations and achievements towards your travel goals.

4. Mind Map Travel Vision Board

– A large sheet of paper or digital drawing tool

– Pens, markers, or digital annotation tools

1. Place your ultimate travel goal at the center of the map.

2. Branch out with lines connecting to different goals, destinations, and experiences that support your central aim.

3. Use colors, symbols, and images to categorize and prioritize your goals.

4. Add the steps needed to reach each of your goals.

5. Review and update regularly as your travel aspirations evolve.

Alternatives to Vision Boards

While vision boards are effective for many, alternatives like journaling and photography can also help you to manifest your travel dreams.

1. Photography

Visuals can stir emotions and intentions. Arrange your photographs that reflect your dream destinations or travel lifestyle. Let them be a constant source of inspiration around your home or workspace. Digital photo frames allow you to easily add to your collection. 

2. Screensavers

Transform your everyday digital devices into windows to your future adventures. We’ve already talked about them as a place to highlight your digital vision board. Additionally, a screensaver or background of a place you wish to visit can serve as a subtle, constant reminder of your goals.

3. Sticky Notes

Place sticky notes in strategic locations with reminders or motivational quotes about your travel aspirations. 

4. Calendars

Purchase or make a physical calendar to hang on the wall that will be a daily reminder of your travel goals. 

5. Home Decor

Yes, even a shower curtain can serve as a canvas for your dreams! Choose one with a map or iconic landmarks. Similarly, decorate your living space with elements that remind you of your travel goals.

Dive into your travel dreams with whatever creative medium you prefer. Whether you paint, draw, craft, or use a digital medium, use it to build out your travel aspirations and then keep it up in your home. Alternatively, you can collect artwork made by others from the place you want to visit to keep your travel dreams present.

7. Travel Dream Journal

Document your dreams, plans, and the steps you’re taking to reach them. This can be a powerful tool for reflection and motivation.

8. Travel Coach

Work with a certified travel coach, such as myself. Trained travel coaches will provide you with useful resources and activities to help you reach your travel goals. They will also support you in staying accountable to yourself and your long term dreams when other responsibilities and daily needs can easily get in the way.

9. Include it in Your Lifestyle

Create playlists, watchlists, reading lists, as well as activities at home and in your local community to immerse you in the culture of your future destinations. At Trip Scholars , I have a free guide filled with activities to help you learn more and keep yourself inspired to reach your dreams. Grab your free copy here.

Incorporating these techniques into your daily routine can influence your mindset, gradually steering your life’s direction toward your travel goals. Remember, a key to a successful travel vision board, or any alternative method, lies in regular interaction and updates. As your dreams evolve, so should your vision board, keeping you aligned and motivated towards your ultimate travel experiences. The other important piece is using it as one part of your goal planning. That will be a topic of an upcoming post, so stay tuned!

Your Travel Vision Board

As a travel coach, I’m dedicated to helping others realize their travel ambitions. I hope this article provided you with some helpful ideas you can implement today. If you are interested in learning more about working with me, I offer free discovery calls and would be happy to get to hear about your travel dreams. Just click here to learn more.

Whether it’s through a traditional vision board, a digital collage, or one of the alternative techniques shared, the act of visualizing your travel goals is a useful step towards making them a reality. Start today, and let your vision board help motivate you to craft the travel lifestyle you are dreaming of!

Do you have questions about travel vision boarding or have you made one yourself? I’d love to hear about it in the comments.

Erica Forrest

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Vision-impaired students take an interactive field trip on St. Augustine sailing yacht

Fourteen vision-impaired students at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind 's summer camp in St. Augustine recently spent a morning on sailing yachts, using touch and sounds to experience the joy of being at sea.

For the past four years, charter company St. Augustine Sailing has provided the school with free field trips . This year its yachts Wind Dancer and Far Niente each hosted seven campers and three companions.

"It’s a really special sail, not just for the kids, but for us too," Toste Muniz, the company's office manager, said. "One of the little girls hugged me so tightly … and told me she loved it so much she never wanted to leave. It’s really an indescribable feeling."

Crew members tied different knots, with the campers learning their shapes through touch, and used sounds to show how sails are adjusted. Capts. Chris De Hart and Dale Edgar talked about the wind and maneuvered the yachts so the youth felt the breeze on their faces. Each child was allowed "to take the helm and feel the pull of the water on the rudder," according to the company.

"It reminds us how important it is to utilize all the senses," De Hart said. "So much of sailing is being in tune to the sounds and feel of the boat, engine and weather."

In an educational session on the dock, Edgar used miniature boats with moveable sails. Each child was given a small block of wood with a cleat — a dock fixture that secures lines, ropes and cables — and piece of line to keep.

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"It’s exciting and interactive. … So often our kids end up being passive passengers," summer camp director Jenny Enache said. "They’re not just learning about sailing, they’re gaining confidence."

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Visit a french wine region during a trip to the paris olympics.

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If you are traveling to Paris for the 2024 Olympics between July 26 th and August 11th, consider arriving early or staying late for a few days and visiting at least one French wine region. The four wine destinations below can be reached by trains from Paris within a few hours. At these destinations you can rent a car, use public transportation or hire a guide service to show you more of the region.

A few notes on train travel in France.

Be aware that security will be tight within and around the city of Paris during the Olympics. If you decide to travel by train, arrive at your station at least thirty minutes before departure. Try to book, pay for and download your ticket in advance at the French railway SNCF website . Alternatively, try the Trainline wesbite. The Swiss railway site— SBB —also provides information on French trains.

First class train tickets are reasonably priced. Buy them online in advance so you can book seats—especially if you are traveling with others so that you can sit together.

You may need to show your ticket before boarding a train in France. However identification is usually not requested.

Most trains have cars that sell food, and nearby tables where you can stand and eat. You can also buy food and bring it back to your seat. Remember the French are fastidious about their lunch hours, so it is better to eat before noon or after 2:00 p.m. to avoid standing in what could be a long line to order food.

For the same price you will pay for a hotel room in Paris, you will be able to secure more spacious accommodation at a wine region outside of that city.

Don’t hesitate to book a guide or a van/mini-bus trip—if only for a half day or a full day. Experts will save you time and inconveniences and reduce language difficulties, They can also provide historical insights while you travel and identify where to eat well at a reasonable price.

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Bordeaux is a beautiful city designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Travel within the city is easy using the tram system . Purchase a tram ticket valid for at least 10 trips from a machine located at many (but not all) tram stops, or from any Relay book/magazine store within a train station or airport. Within the city, find a restaurant off any side streets to the west of the attractive Place de la Bourse (in the opposite direction of the waterfront). Also, amble along the Garonne waterside. The Cité du Vin wine museum highlights vintages from throughout the world and includes a wine store and restaurant. Consider having a picnic in the Jardin Public , a park located a ten minute walk from the Opera House in the center of the city.

Note that from July 24 th to August 2 nd , Bordeaux will be hosting seven men’s and women’s soccer matches.

Place la Bourse in Bordeaux, France

Paris has four main train stations, each one known as a gare . From Gare Montparnasse, located to the south of the Seine River, the voyage on a high speed TGV (Train Grande Vitesse—which moves at up to 185 miles per hour) from Paris to Bordeaux Saint-Jean train station takes two hours and nine minutes. From the Bordeaux station take a taxi/Uber or a tram into the city center. You can also rent a car at the train station (book in advance), but driving and parking within Bordeaux city can be challenging. It is better to use public transportation within the city, and hire a car to visit regions outside of the city, such as the Médoc wine region to the north.

The majority of Bordeaux wines are red. These are usually blends containing Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot, and also sometimes including Petit Verdot and Malbec (and, infrequently, Carménère). Although Bordeaux produces a lower quantity of white wines than red, whites can be spectacular and are principally made from the grapes Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon and Muscadelle.

Food/Wine Pairings

White wine made principally from Sauvignon Blanc grapes paired with oysters from the Bay of Arcachon, as well as a fresh baguette.

For lunch or dinner, try magret de canard duck breast and potatoes with a Bordeaux red wine from Médoc or Saint-Émilion.

For dessert—a sweet white Sauternes wine with local cannelé pastry.

The Burgundy wine region is located approximately between the city of Dijon to the north and the city of Mâcon to the south (with the walled city of Beaune between). It includes hills to the west, adjacent vineyards to the east, and a main road and a railway line running north to south. This is a land of small domaine vineyards, quiet villages and locals who take enormous pride in their culture and wine. Loud accents and garish colored clothing? Not here. Stay in or near Beaune or Nuits-Saint-Georges and hire a guide to take you to visit wine domaines.

Clos de Vougeot castle in Burgundy, France

From the Paris train station known as Gare de Lyon, a train to Dijon takes about one hour and 40 minutes. From Dijon station you can pick up a rental car or have a service drive you into the Burgundy wine country.

Alternatively, you can continue on a second train from Dijon for 19 minutes to arrive at the ancient walled city of Beaune—which includes excellent restaurants, wine stores and the attractive Hotel Dieu of the Hospices de Beaune.

Burgundy is renowned for red wines made from the Pinot Noir grape, and white wines made from Chardonnay. You may also want to try white wines made from the Aligoté grape, and reds made from the Gamay grape.

Chablis white wine (which is Chardonnay from a particular region of Burgundy) pairs classically with escargot snails and, of course, a bread baguette.

Coq au vin or beef bourguignon can be paired with a red wine; also try gougères—cheese savory pastries—with a glass of sparkling Crémant de Bourgogne.

The Gothic cathedral at Reims is attractive to visit, and also consider setting up a visit to a cellar of a smaller champagne house such as Bouquet . The town of Aÿ-Champagne is a quiet location surrounded by vineyards owned by well known champagne houses; however driving around the beautiful countryside of Champagne reveals its attractions— patches of woodlands interspersed with vineyards on rolling terrain with small villages.

Champagne wine region in France

From the Paris Gare de l’Est train station, take two connecting trains for a total of one hour 30 minutes to the city of Reims. The intermediate stop is Champagne-Ardenne.

Champagne is made from either single grapes or a blend; the grapes are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Lesser used grapes include Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Arbane and Petit Meslier.

Ardennes ham or roast quail with a Henri Giraud champagne made 100% from Chardonnay.

Strawberries with a champagne made 100% from the Pinot Meunier grape, such as Bérêche et Fils Rive Gauche.

Loire Valley

This is a vast countryside of ‘châteaux’—castles near the calm Loire River, which flows for over 600 miles. The riverside towns of Tours, Angers , Nantes, Chinon and Orleans all include their own cultural attractions. Consider taking a boat trip on the Loire River.

Town of Saumur with the Loire River

From Gare Montparnasse in Paris, you can travel directly by train to the city of Tours in one hour and 20 minutes.

Alternatively, you can travel from Gare Montparnasse to Angers in the Loire Valley in one hour and 40 minutes.

From Gare d’Austerlitz, travel to Orleans takes one hour and five minutes.

Generally, Loire Valley white wines are made from the Chenin Blanc grape as well as Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay, while red wines are made from Cabernet Franc, as well as Gamay and Pinot Noir. On the coast however, excellent value white wines known as Muscadet (made from the Melon de Bourgogne grape) are renowned for pairing with seafood.

Food/Wine Pairing

Andouilette sausage and Cabernet Franc red wine.

White wine from the Muscadet Sèvre et Maine appellation—such as from Domaine du Fayd’Homme —with scallops.

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Noregon recently released a standalone version of their popular real-time fleet asset management solution, TripVision, called TripVision Uptime. “TripVision Uptime not only gives fleet managers visibility into issues that affect the health, safety, or performance of their vehicles, but also gives them newfound capabilities to manage many of those issues,” said Terrah Stephens, TripVision Product Manager. “Powered by our new hardware device called ND2, TripVision Uptime users can remotely perform functions that historically required a shop visit, helping to avoid breakdowns and optimizing maintenance schedules.”

Utilizing TripVision Uptime’s dashboard, fleet managers and dispatchers know in a glance which issues are affecting the vehicle’s health, safety, or performance status. Noregon continues to keep the user experience intuitive when making upgrades to the product. For example, TripVision’s data is easy for anyone to interpret and respond to – vehicle severity is color-coded, visuals such as icons are intuitive, and expert recommendations are built into the product for managing detected issues. Drivers and/or fleet managers have the power to easily take immediate actions to handle issues that can impact uptime, safety, and truck performance. Here are some of the features customers asked for and Noregon integrated into TripVision Uptime.

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TripVision customers consistently requested the ability to remotely perform bi-directional functions, such as forced regens and ACM resets. By adding these capabilities, users have more controls at their fingertips to help a vehicle reach its destination without unnecessary downtime.

According to Adrian Aucoin, Enterprise Systems Manager at Vacuum Truck Rentals (VTR), a delighted TripVision customer, “If I can call my driver and tell him or her to perform a parked regen that will clear the fault, I just saved about a thousand dollars from not letting that fault escalate into a costly breakdown event.”

Aucoin also spoke to the benefit of constant awareness to a vehicle’s health. “I mentioned that idling is common with our trucks, which means that even if a dash light is activated, it may be hours until someone notices it. We can now immediately detect issues and also use the real-time data to verify a complaint if the customer does call with an issue.”

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Norwegian chamber orchestra, south bank   ★★★☆☆.

T he concert is dead, we’re often told. Or if not actually dead, then terminally stiff and unappealing to younger audiences. It needs to be turned into an experience, where your entire field of vision is filled with swirling movement and imagery that helps the music to speak.

Well, last night was certainly an “experience”.  The 16 string players of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, led by Finnish virtuoso Pekka Kuusisto, led us in a whirlwind tour of fragments Shostakovich’s music entitled DSCH – the initial letters of Shostakovich’s name, which the composer deliberately threaded through many of his pieces. We heard several of them, alongside many others played without pause, book-ended by his infinitely sad, broken Viola Sonata.

But the musicians didn’t just play—they became characters in a set of wordless mini-dramas, shrewdly directed by Mikkel Harder Munck-Hansen, which reflected the mood of the music and hinted at the composer’s tormented life under Stalinist tyranny. If we were hearing one of those cheerfully innocent works Shostakovich composed in his youth, we might see two violinists and an accordionist, seated under an orange spotlight, engaged in humorous banter through their instruments. If it was one of those pieces where bleak lyricism fights with terror, we might be faced with something very different: eight players seated in rows on small suitcases, as if on a train, while a projected forest landscape beyond the train windows sped by. Or if the mood was one of bitter, grimacing sarcasm, we might see the players gathered in seemingly threatening postures round a lone cellist.

Each scene had the startling vividness of a dream, thanks to Lars Egegaard Sørensen’s brilliantly coloured lighting, and the musicians moved with an easy grace and expressivity, while playing a sequence of 19 pieces all from memory. Much of the music had been shrewdly arranged for a string orchestra, plus an accordionist, which in Bjarke Mogensen’s wonderfully sensitive hands gave a touch of realism to the little scenes.

Despite having to double up as dancers and actors, the musicians played with intense concentration and expressivity. As a co-ordinated spectacle, it was beyond praise—but that was actually a problem. We were whirled along irresistibly from one fragment to the next, but much of the music the musicians played had a gravity and seriousness that demanded to be savoured in full. The most treasurable quality of Shostakovich’s music is its ambiguity, but these briskly amusing little tableaux didn’t allow that quality to shine through. It really didn’t help our appreciation of Shostakovich’s bitter 1 st Cello Concerto to see the savage drum-thwacks played by a clown, striding across the stage unexpectedly. Yes it got a laugh, but whatever those drum-strokes mean it’s certainly not humour.

It was a relief, towards the end, to be given a piece of music in full: Shostakovich’s tragic 8 th quartet in Rudolph Barshai’s arrangement for string orchestra. The restless stage business finally stopped, and we could simply enjoy a first-rate chamber orchestra doing what it does best. IH

BBC Philharmonic, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester ★★★★☆  

The BBC Philharmonic along with the other four BBC Orchestras has been facing the prospect of damaging cuts, a prospect which has now thankfully receded. At Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall for its closing concert of the season, the BBC Philharmonic proved its worth not by being daring – which it often is – but by showing how performing a sensitively balanced programme of copper-bottomed masterpieces with understanding, feeling and refinement is as nourishing and valuable an enterprise as it ever was.

The masterpieces came from Wagner and Berlioz, but before we reached them the Philharmonic cast a spell over the hall with Un Sourire (A Smile), the last orchestral work of the great French modernist composer Olivier Messiaen. A slow, infinitely gentle hymn in the strings alternated with joyous twittering birdsong in the woodwind, until finally a brass chorale brought the piece to a glowing conclusion. In this performance under conductor Mark Wigglesworth the piece took on a mysterious innocence, not unlike the late works of Mozart in whose honour the piece was written.

Then the majestic figure of great German soprano Dorothea Röschmann came on stage, for Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, a setting of five poems by the composer’s lover Mathilde Wesendonck. The poetry is full of breathless evocations of the spirit realm which seem as dated as a Victorian boudoir, but in this performance one could actually believe in them. Röschmann has one of those thrilling voices that can dominate an orchestra even in pianissimo. At the end of the final song, as she sang of flowers sinking into the grave, it felt as if we too were being drawn down into delicious oblivion.

Wigglesworth ensured the orchestra in these songs sounded wonderfully rich and full-blooded in a properly Wagnerian way, without ever being overbearing. It was in the final piece, Berlioz’s Symphonies Fantastique, that they really came into their own. The piece is often played with a swaggering brio – which is fine, as it is a young man’s piece. But Wigglesworth treated it as a mature masterpiece. The Introduction, which sets us up for the story of the composer’s obsession with his lady-love, was played at an unusually slow pace, which gave it a huge yearning intensity. The Scene in the Country, with its melancholy shepherd’s pipe dialogue, seemed similarly vast. The March to the Scaffold was grand rather than brash. All this set us up perfectly for the final “Dream of a Sabbath Night”, which was as delirious as I’ve ever heard it. It’s a rare pleasure to hear a warhorse of the orchestral repertoire so thoroughly rejuvenated. IH

Hear this concert on BBC Radio 3 on July 3 and for 30 days on BBC Sounds

Curlew River, Aldeburgh Festival ★★★★★

The Aldeburgh Festival roams far and wide in its musical programming but, like a homing pigeon, constantly circles back to its roots in the music of Benjamin Britten, and in the flat, light-drenched landscape of coastal Suffolk that inspired him. Yesterday it presented his church parable Curlew River, a Christianised version of a Japanese tale, in Blythburgh Church. The glowing white walls caught in the evening sunlight and the carved wooden angels above cast a spell, even before a note had sounded.  

The story of a Madwoman who encounters a Ferryman and a group of Travellers, and who learns from them the fate of her missing son that she’s searched for everywhere is simplicity itself, as was this excellent production by Deborah Warner. Christof Hetzer’s design centred on a rough wooden walkway, leading to a raised platform, which needed only a few props – a raised oar, two boys idly fishing – to suggest a ferry. Monks chanting a Latin prayer, sung by a chorus of Britten Pears Young Artists processed slowly to the platform, where by donning a simple tunic they were transformed into the Travellers. The Abbot played with warm-hearted dignity by Willard White entreated us to be ready for a miracle.

All this was austere and dignified, as one expects, but the drama itself was rougher and stonier than I’ve ever seen it. Ian Bostridge was superb as the Madwoman, clutching her soiled sleeping bag like any distressed homeless person, that well-known fluty tenor voice cracked with grief. The Ferryman, played by Duncan Rock, pulled the Madwoman onto the ferry with a shocking lack of sympathy, and the Travellers jeered at her strange story. To one side a group of Young Artist Programme instrumentalists incisively directed by Audrey Hyland shadowed the voices’ rise and fall in uncanny sounds of harp, high organ and sharp, sinister horn calls.

This pitiless harshness meant that when the miracle occurs, and the Madwoman finally hears the spirit voice of her dead son – beautifully sung by Matthew Jones – the effect was all the more moving. Compassion flooded the drama, just as the sunlight flooded the church.

It was a jolt, but a pleasurable one, to move to Snape Maltings concert hall for the sardonic cruelty of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. This set of 21 songs portraying the revenge of a love-stricken Pierrot has become a byword for shrieking expressionism, but in this performance from soprano Claire Booth and the Nash Ensemble it came across as delicately beautiful, wickedly amusing and above all sexy. IH

The Aldeburgh Festival continues until 23 June. Curlew River will be broadcast by BBC TV at a later date

Britten Sinfonia/1948 Festival Opening Night, Snape Maltings ★★★☆☆

Born in the ferment of creative renaissance that followed the end of the Second World War, the Aldeburgh Festival – along with other new initiatives that have lasted like the Edinburgh Festival and the BBC Third Programme – was a response to the increasing democratisation of classical music that had gathered pace during the war. The festival was conceived by composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, as an event in the Suffolk seaside town which provided the setting for Britten’s highly successful opera Peter Grimes, partly as a showcase for Britten’s own new music performed to his exacting high standards.

The first festival in 1948 launched with a programme that mixed the 18 th  and 20 th  century in Purcell, Handel, Britten and new music – a distinctive mix which reflected Britten’s and Pears’s musical tastes and differentiated Aldeburgh from the mainstream musical world of the time, still dominated by the 19 th -century Beethoven-Brahms-Tchaikovsky axis. 

So it was not just a nostalgic idea to reflect this opening concert in the festival’s current 75 th  anniversary season, but a demonstration of how continuously this festival has reinvented itself. It has had its bumpy moments, especially in the wake of Britten’s death in 1976, when it seemed to lack purpose and clear direction, but has flourished again in recent years under outstanding artistic leadership, most recently by Sir Roger Wright, who steps down after this festival. 

There are paradoxes here, notably that with the flourishing development of Snape Maltings and its very fine concert hall on a wonderful site a few miles away from the seaside, Aldeburgh itself has become less significant in the festival – this programme was originally heard in the town’s church, where Britten’s choral cantata Saint Nicolas would have used the spaces of the church including its gallery. This was Britten’s first piece to include writing for amateur performers, and transferring it to the single large space of Snape involved some compromises, with the excellent Britten Pears Chorus (led by James Davy) taking over more of the choral writing originally intended for young school choirs, and leaving the choristers of St Edmundsbury Cathedral with tiny walk-on parts.

Conductor Jessica Cottis marshalled her expert players of the Britten Sinfonia very strongly, and Nick Pritchard was a vivid narrator of St Nicolas’s adventures, from the story of the pickled boys to storms at seas. The multi-movement piece is lovable but episodic and short-breathed, and in the absence of texts (except where we joined in two hymns), we missed much of the subtlety. 

The new work of the anniversary evening was equally episodic: a 24-minute, five movement dreamlike concerto odyssey called Luck by Robin Haigh for trumpet (the brilliant and forceful Matilda Lloyd): dancing strings leading to a bluesy aria, a bouncy toccata, smoochy cellos, and brittle chords with dotted rhythms, all refracted through a distorting electronic-style haze. What on earth would Britten have made of it?  

Ironically, against this adventurous background it was the old music of Purcell and Handel that fared less well, as performance styles in this repertory (as the festival has admirably shown elsewhere) have strode on in the 75 years since Britten and Pears were such fervent advocates for the music of England’s distant past. NK

Festival events to June 23. brittenpearsarts.org

Knussen Chamber Orchestra/Aldeburgh Festival ★★★★☆

Bless the Aldeburgh Festival, which cheerfully defies the general climate of gloom and pinched expectations. It flings great music at us, of all kinds, in generous handfuls. You barely have time to catch your breath after a concert and take a walk in the wind-swept reed-beds around Snape Maltings Concert Hall, before the next thrilling event comes along.

Yesterday there were a mere two concerts, but they were both astonishingly rich. The first came from the Paris-based Ensemble Diderot, which offered a feast of those French mid-18 th century composers who married Italian sprightliness with French suavité and grace. In a less idiomatic performance one’s ear might have tired of the constantly drooping phrases and the twittering ornamental notes clustered around the melody like pearls. But these players knew just how to temper these very French things with the rhythmic fire and bite of the Italian style. The slow movement of Boismortier’s Cello Concerto, where the two violins of Johannes Prahmsoler and Roldán Bernabé cooed amorously over the archingly melodic cello melody of Gulrim Choi, provided the day’s most delicious moment.

The day’s second concert came from the Knussen Chamber Orchestra, made up of young players from the Royal Academy of Music alongside seasoned professionals. This was less sensuously alluring but had bigger expressive horizons. They were especially big in the case of Planet, an orchestral response to photographic images of galaxies and Planet Earth from the Master of the King’s Music Judith Weir, here being given its world premiere. There’s a stock musical response to these images: portentous, awe-inspiring grandeur, tinged with outer-space coldness. But Weir doesn’t do grand, portentous or cold. The three movements had a shining naivety, with bright chords superimposed over wood-wind flourishes, tinged occasionally with dark mystery. We know the heavenly bodies are vastly old, but in this delightful piece it seemed as if they are eternally young.

Guiding the 40 or so young and not-so-young players from the podium was Ryan Wigglesworth, a gifted musician who appeared as composer and pianist as well as conductor. He combined all three roles in Mozart’s 24 th Piano Concerto, which he directed from the piano with fierce energy in the tragic minor-key moments, and pleasingly straightforward, flowing grace in the slow movement. He also contributed a brand-new cadenza (solo spot) in the first movement, which took the fierce melody and led it into regions of lonely, almost modernist harmonic cloudiness. It was more effective than his new Mozart-inspired solo piano piece Glasmelodien, which ranged from Messiaen-like cosmic vastness to the intimacies of Mozart’s famous piece for glass harmonica, but didn’t quite succeed in marrying them.

Finally Wigglesworth led the orchestra in Mozart’s sublime Jupiter symphony. Most conductors drive through the brusque opening gestures, but Wigglesworth stretched the pauses between them by an infinitesimal amount. This had the paradoxical effect of heightening the grandeur and humanising it at the same time. It was a shrewdly telling way to start, which the rest of the wonderful performance more than lived up to. IH

The Aldeburgh Festival continues until June 23; brittenpearsarts.org

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Barbican ★★★☆☆

Since taking the reins of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo “The Dude” Dudamel, the most famous alumnus of the globally renowned Venezuelan music education system El Sistema, has striven to embrace every aspect of his adopted city. It’s an admirable aim, which the orchestra naturally wants to show off when on tour. Which is why their first programme on Sunday night tried to satisfy at least four disparate aims: revel in the orchestra’s famous Hollywoodish pizzazz, honour a key moment in Los Angeles’s recent history, feature a new piece representing the city’s Latino community, and finally demonstrate its serious credentials in a classical masterwork – which also happens to be the most popular symphony ever, Dvořák’s New World.

This strange mix explains why, despite guiltily enjoyable moments, it was short on real musical satisfaction. The opening Olympic Fanfare and Theme, composed by John Williams for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was of course brassily fabulous, in a way that sounded like the theme tune for one of Williams’s blockbuster film scores, but you couldn’t quite remember which.

By contrast, the new piece, a violin concerto subtitled Altar de cuerda (Altar of Strings), by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, was all rapt inwardness. It felt like a series of orchestral evocations of a sunbaked Mexican landscape where an atavistic spirituality flourishes, as much pagan as Christian. Into the frequent silences, the eloquent soloist María Dueñas would drop expressive solo cadenzas, which soared and twittered and drooped like an ecstatic religious celebrant speaking in tongues.

There were certainly striking atmospheric moments, like the beginning of the central slow movement when the wind players played a shimmering high sound on wine glasses. And here and there, the music almost became animated, when a momentary primitive dance rhythm surged up in strings or percussion. But the constant succession of wildly expressionist gestures from the violinist and mystical sounds from the orchestra eventually palled. I found myself longing for some real musical substance.

The final piece, Dvořák’s symphony, ought to have provided that, and to some degree it did. As you’d expect from this conductor, the performance was brilliantly stage-managed for maximum dramatic contrast. Sometimes this paid dividends, as in the central section of the final movement, where Dudamel built a terrific tension for the return of the big horn melody. Sometimes it seemed overdone; for example Dudamel pulled back the tempo for the gently folksy flute melody in the first movement so radically it seemed as if we were momentarily visiting some other piece. 

There was some beautifully expressive solo playing, notably from cor anglais player Carolyn Hove and bassoonist Whitney Crockett, wonderful in the famous, deeply nostalgic melody of the slow movement. At the end, the Dude led his team in another toe-tapping slice of John Williams, this time the famous theme tune from Raiders of the Lost Ark, which drove the audience wild. They hadn’t given us much musical nourishment, but they certainly know how to charm. IH

See the LA Philharmonic and DeafWest Theatre in Beethoven’s Fidelio tonight at the Barbican; barbican.org.uk

Hallé orchestra, Bridgewater Hall ★★★★★

“Any sort of marriage is tricky”, declared Sir Mark Elder from the podium at the end of his farewell concert in Manchester, as he looked back over 24 years of being married to the Hallé orchestra as its music director. “But we’ve always worked to achieve the absolute best we could do.” Anyone who’s followed the orchestra over that time, as I have, knows that “the best” this team has achieved has been as good as any team anywhere. The performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle, of numerous new works, and above all of British symphonies, have been among the peaks of music-making in these islands.

However the achievements Elder is clearly most proud of are the various youth choirs created to weave the orchestra into the life of the city. Two of them were right behind him as he spoke: the Hallé Youth and Children’s Choirs, alongside the main Hallé Choir. The body of singers was so big it actually spilled out of the choir stall into the adjoining rows. And what an incredible ear-drenching sound they made in Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia, the work composed especially for the occasion by Sir James MacMillan.

It’s a title you’d expect from Purcell or Handel rather than a living composer, and the piece did indeed feel like a 21st-century version of Handel’s grand “Ode to Saint Cecilia’s Day”, composed in 1739. Like Handel, MacMillan used verses by Dryden in praise of the saint, who enlarged music’s domain “with Nature’s mother-wit and arts unknown before.” MacMillan’s piece seemed to act out that idea, with ancient things such as the plainchant sung by the Children’s Choir set alongside grimly “modern” march rhythms, which evoked the destruction caused by war (all praise to those children for hitting MacMillan’s complex harmonies with such spell-binding accuracy). The final jubilant praise, with all three choirs joined by the orchestra, was overwhelming.

Then came Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an apt choice as it’s the symphony of Mahler which maps the most heartening journey from grim despair to riotous jubilation. It was a journey that registered in our hearts and minds with force (more than a few audience members seemed a bit tearful) and not just because this was a special occasion. It was because the performance had that humane, spacious quality we’ve come to associate with this conductor, and this orchestra. The Scherzo of this symphony is often whipped into panic by conductors, but it doesn’t have to be. The famous Adagietto is often taken with almost agonised slowness, but it doesn’t have to be. There’s a way of making all this and the symphony’s three other movements flower naturally, without being forced.

That places a special responsibility on the players to make an especially beautiful, rich sound, so those relaxed tempos seem radiant and generous rather than merely slow. It was a challenge they rose to magnificently, both individually (all praise to principal trumpeter Gareth Small) and collectively. Bravo Hallé and Sir Mark; it’s been a wonderful almost quarter-century. IH

Sir Mark Elder gives farewell performances with the Hallé at the Aldeburgh Festival on 23 June  brittenpearsarts.org   BBC Proms on 21 July  bbc.co.uk/proms   Edinburgh International Festival 17 August  eif.co.uk

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is addressing his party's rally in Birmingham now.

Entering the stage to chants of his name - and fireworks - Mr Farage says Reform UK is a party that believes in "having fun and enjoying life".

He explains how at "very short notice" he decided to become leader of the party.

"I simply could not stand aside."

Mr Farage refers to "slippery Sunak", and Sir Keir Starmer, who he says doesn't know how to lead the UK in difficult times.

"Keir Starmer has the charisma of a damp rag," the Reform UK leader says.

He also claims the BBC has "abused its power" as the national broadcaster, to loud applause from those in the room.

Mr Farage says he will campaign to abolish the licence fee.  

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All the country's votes will be counted - and recounted - by hand.

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Rishi Sunak has said he still believes he will win the general election.

Asked by the BBC whether he thought he would still be prime minister on Friday, he replied: "Yes. I'm fighting very hard and I think people are waking up to the real danger of what a Labour government means."

Polls have almost consistently shown that the Tories are 20 points behind Labour. 

Mr Sunak also hit back at what he claimed was a "declinist narrative" when asked whether it was a mistake to change course on net zero.

BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg pointed out that some people, including the independent climate change committee, believe the UK has lost its status as a leader on the issue.

The broadcaster also said there was "plenty of evidence" that the economic reality of Brexit is that Britain's standing long-term is "more challenging".

Asked whether he thought the shift was a mistake, the prime minister appeared frustrated as he said: "No, and actually you started that question with something that I fundamentally disagree with: 'Because of Brexit, we've lost our standing in the world'."

Told that was not what she had said, he replied: "You said we've lost our standing in the world. That's completely and utterly wrong."

Mr Sunak cited Britain building new nuclear submarines with Australia and the United States, and the negotiation of the Windsor Framework with the EU and support for Ukraine.

He claimed that "people are queuing up to work with us because they respect what we do".

"So I just completely reject that, it's entirely wrong, this kind of declinist narrative that people have of the UK I wholeheartedly reject."

Hats in support of Donald Trump and Union Flag jackets were spotted at the Reform UK rally at the NEC in Birmingham this afternoon.

Dozens of people have gathered to watch Reform UK leader Nigel Farage address the major campaign event, bidding for votes ahead of Thursday's election.

A group of students from the Warwick University Conservatives Association have been condemned for an "utterly abhorrent" video in which they sing a Nazi marching song.

The clip, taken at a chairman's dinner at the Warwick Conservatives Association two weeks ago, shows members singing "Erika" - a song used by the SS and the armed forces of Nazi Germany.

In a statement, the Union of Jewish Students condemned a "blatant and unchallenged support for Nazism".

"The blatant and unchallenged support for Nazism at the Warwick Conservatives Association 'chairman's dinner' is utterly abhorrent," it said. 

"Glorification of the Nazis has no place in our society, especially on campus. It is in no way acceptable and must be widely condemned. 

"We expect swift and decisive action from the University of Warwick and the Conservative Party. Actions must have consequences.”

Additionally, a spokesperson for Warwick University said: "We have been made aware of this video and the allegations surrounding it, which are extremely troubling.

"Behaviour like this is reprehensible and we are disappointed to see our students involved.

“The university is reviewing the material disclosed to us via our reporting service and has notified the Student's Union. 

"We have requested a meeting with the Jewish Society (Jsoc) to assist with our review.”

Our live poll tracker collates the results of opinion surveys carried out by all the main polling organisations - and allows you to see how the political parties are performing in the run-up to the general election.

With under a week to go, the Tories and Labour have taken a drop, while support for Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats is on the rise.

Read more about the tracker  here .

Pledges and promises are coming thick and fast from every party as the general election approaches. 

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A speech by Nigel Farage was interrupted by a banner showing a smirking Vladimir Putin with the caption "I [heart emoji] Nigel".

Campaign group Led By Donkeys carried out the stunt as the Reform UK leader spoke on stage at the Columbine Centre in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

Footage posted on social media showed the banner slowly descending from the ceiling showing the Russian president with his thumb up.

Upon seeing the banner, Mr Farage - the Reform UK candidate for Clacton - said: "Who put that up there? Someone at the Columbine Centre needs to get the sack."

It comes after Mr Farage received widespread criticism for claiming earlier this month that the West and NATO "provoked" Russia's war on Ukraine.

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Rishi Sunak was asked if it was a mistake for him to say at the start of the campaign that he has respect for Nigel Farage.

It comes in the wake of controversy over racist comments about Mr Sunak made by a man alleging to be a Reform UK canvasser.

Mr Farage, the leader of Reform UK, claims he is an actor.

Asked about his respect for the politician, Mr Sunak says there are views of his "that he's been right to highlight".

"Where I agree with someone's policies, I'll happily say that."

However, Mr Sunak says again that the racist remarks made about him were "wrong".

"I was keen to call it out."

The prime minister is also asked: "When was the last time you were wrong?"

He jokes: "If you talk to my wife and daughters they would say on a regular basis."

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