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ATTRACTION: Southend pier is longest in world

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The only way to fly is from Essex

A tail of real cunning

When the truth is hard to dish out

It seems that southend is the place to be. Hot on the heels of the news that the essex seaside town is enjoying healthy rises in property prices comes a resounding pat on the back from easyJet.

the airline’s latest customer satisfaction survey has revealed that London southend Airport, the carrier’s newest base, has topped a customer satisfaction poll across its european airports, with an overall satisfaction score of 92 per cent. From the 26,000 surveyed, the research showed 95 per cent were satisfied with the airport, 98 per cent with the time at check in and 100 per cent with the efficiency of check-in staff.

Could the essex Riviera be taking off?

tHe Insider can see why it would be useful to acquire the cunning of a fox, but is not so convinced about donning its tail, especially one that wags.

Japanese entrepreneur shota Ishiwatari has invented the tailly, right, a fluffy tail that moves when its wearer gets excited.

Worn around the waist, the device has sensors in the belt that measure the wearer’s pulse. As the heart rate increases the tail begins to wag.

Ishiwatari envisages the tailly could be useful on a date to reveal your true feelings, or by couples “to add a level of subconscious communication”.

Is displaying such animal instincts cute or just disturbing?

BeIng too polite is cited as a British affliction. And according to a new survey by researcher Customer First solutions, 47 per cent of us would even lie about a poor dining experience because we are too embarrassed to tell the truth.

this reticence was more pronounced among women with 50 per cent saying they would tell the truth compared with 60 per cent of men, while youngsters were more timid than frank over 55s.Regional variations were surprising with diners in norwich and Liverpool the most truthful, while Cardiff and Belfast were less likely to tell the truth.

Food for thought, but what about dishing out just deserts?

It can pay to be mean, rather than being green

n NEwS reaches me from the land Down Under that Marco Pierre

white is gearing up for an assault on Australia’s chefs.

The legendary chef is to judge MasterChef: The Professionals, in which 18 of Melbourne’s finest chefs will compete for his approval. The promotional blitz for the show’s imminent launch has begun in earnest and many of the television and billboard adverts carry the tagline “meet the chef who made Gordon Ramsay cry”.

According to my spies in Melbourne, the 18 contestants are nervous but confident of their abilities. The Insider wishes them luck, as they will need it if they are to live up to Pierre white’s notoriously great expectations.

A study shows that while green investments may be good for

your soul, they may not necessarily be for your bank balance.

trader and investor Vince stanzione, founder of Fintrader.net tracked various investments worldwide seen as green or ethical such as carbon credits, wind power, solar energy, and organic foods.

He then looked at investments that are often labelled as “sin stocks” including tobacco, alcohol, fast foods, and gun manufacturers.

n Thousands of miles of discarded fishing nets

littering beaches could have a new walk of life as carpet tiles.

The Zoological society of London is working with carpet-maker Interface on a project called net-Works to turn the plastic pollution into environmentally friendly carpet tiles.

small-scale fishermen in developing countries throw away damaged nets every few months, which can injure marine life as they drift through the waters “ghost fishing”.

The amount of net discarded each year in danajon Bank in the Philippines, for example, is long enough to circle the world.

If the six-month pilot project catches on, it could be rolled out across the world.

the difference in returns was staggering: £1,000 invested in a basket of saint stocks lost about 10 per cent over a decade whereas the basket of sinners would have made you more than 150 per cent – and that was without including dividends.

some of the standouts in the sinners were British American tobacco up 435 per cent and brewer sAB miller up 486 per cent over the last 10 years.

sometimes it pays to be green, however. saintly moneyspinners in the past decade include food retailer Whole Foods markets, up 596 per cent. yum.

A CUT ABOVE: Marco is all set to make

mincemeat of Australia’s

aspiring chefs

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