The best way to pay for your holidays

With summer fast approaching, Robert Powell considers the best ways to fund a holiday abroad...

An acute case of early-onset summertime seems to have hit Britain over the past couple of weeks. No sooner did the clocks jump forward than the sun came out for vast swathes of the country.

Not that this somewhat pleasant condition will last. In fact, the same column inches that were last week devoted to unnaturally warm weather are now occupied by talk of snow and ice stalking the country.