The airline and holiday business has suffered ever since the atrocities in America last month.

International airlines such as British Airways have lost millions of pounds and are shedding thousands of jobs. Several others are in danger of collapse.

Now First Choice, the travel company based in Crawley, has announced it is shedding 1,100 jobs.

People have been put off flying, especially to the USA, causing the biggest crisis in the industry for half a century.

Yet flying is still safer than driving a car and if terrorists strike at the West again, it may not be through planes.

Getting back to normal air travel will show the terrorists they are not going to have an effect on our way of life and will help revive this huge industry.

Nail reserve Circus strongman Joel Buton is pushing a bed of nails around Europe to promote a message for world peace.

He is in Sussex today and hopes to have completed 22,000 miles by the time he finishes in 2004.

The cause is good but anyone who spends his life walking with a 300lb bed of nails must have a screw loose.