Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

There was a crash in town this morning which has caused delays on the buses all day.

I used to really enjoy travelling on buses and trains, but now I find it annoying, frustrating and tiring.

The plane that never takes off

An Indian entrepreneur is giving people who cannot afford to fly the chance to experience air travel for just £2.

Bahadur Chand Gupta's Airbus 300 in Delhi never actually leaves the ground, reports The Times.

Passengers pay for the experience of sitting on a plane, listening to announcements and being waited on by flight attendants.

The plane has only one wing, no lighting and the lavatories are out of order. The air-conditioning is powered by a generator.

But about 40 passengers turn up each Saturday to queue for boarding cards.

In a country where 99% of the population have never experienced air travel, the "virtual journeys" have proved a roaring success.

Customers buckle themselves in and watch a safety demonstration. But when they look out of the windows, the landscape never changes.

'Captain' Gupta's regular announcements include "We will soon be passing through a zone of turbulence" and "We are about to begin our descent into Delhi".

"Some of my passengers have crossed the country to get on this plane," said Mr Gupta who bought the plane in 2003 from an insurance company.