Reader's tip, Times travel desk (wins a Lonely Planet guide and phrase book): Weighed down because you are carrying too many books in your luggage? Take at least one in a foreign language you're not proficient in. It should take at least five or six times longer to read than a book in English. - Times (Brendan J O'Byrne)

A £5,000 bridge is being built to help dormice cross the new Haywards Heath bypass in West Sussex. A council spokesman said: "We are considering adding an infra-red camera to see how many mice use it." - London Metro (Simon Easton)

George Muir, of the Association of Train Operating Companies, said: "The economics of the railways are difficult enough without more loss-making services. As long as people know there are no trains, they can plan their journeys around it." - Times (Harvey Cole)

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