Going green

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The UK’s first liquefied natural gas-powered passenger ferry will arrive in Portsmouth on March 25 ahead of her first commercial sailing to Bilbao in northern Spain two days later.

Brittany Ferries’ Chinese-built E-Flexer-class Salamanca is designed to get greener in the future as more renewable fuel options, such as e-methane or bio-methane, come on stream.

Salamanca, which can carry 1,015 passengers and 350 cars plus freight, is the first of four LNG-powered ships ordered by Brittany Ferries, with the second, Santoña, due next year.

The firm is also investing in two LNG-hybrid vessels, arriving in 2024 and 2025 and serving the UK-France routes with LNG at sea and partially or completely on batteries in ports.

brittany-ferries.co.uk

■■The Balearic Islands are investing €55million to create a sustainable tourism model.

New laws in Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera will limit plastic and paper use and introduce water-saving devices on washbasin, bathtub and shower taps in hotels.

Locally sourced food will be prioritised, and in tourist establishments, oil boilers will be replaced with natural gas or electric ones.

Hotels will also have to replace paper handouts with QR codes.

illesbalears.travel

Alton

Towers is celebrating the reawakening of roller coasters this spring with a new Festival of Thrills. Running from April 4-May 6 at the Staffordshire theme park, it will feature heart-pumping loops, twists and turns on the seven

major rides, with a scorching soundtrack.

altontowers.com