There's a curious paradox in travel retail. The things most tourists dismiss as cheap clutter often contain more authentic ...

There is nothing better towards the end of a holiday than a good mooch around tourist shops. Bottle of water in hand, sunglasses firmly on head and a little ‘oooh’ now and then at the gifts dotted ...

It was the pure awfulness of the object that started it; I shot in to the airport newsagent for a book to read on the flight and came out with a souvenir of the city being left behind - a garish oval ...

Tony Lloyd's compulsion for collecting fridge magnets has seen him amass up to 5,000 mementoes in his home. The retired teacher started collecting them in 1987 while on a exchange trip to Australia ...