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A word of warning to the potential traveller: installing one of those teeny tiny padlocks on your gigantic holiday suitcase is going to dissuade no-one except perhaps the most pathetic and unmotivated potential robber. Most hardened airport criminals eat such miniature padlocks for

breakfast with goat's milk, and the mere sight of holiday baggage so woefully underprotected is usually enough to sent crooked luggage-handlers into a suitcase-busting frenzy.

If your luggage does, miraculously make it to the carousel unharmed, you can guarantee that you will have left the pathetic little key on the bedside table at your holiday apartment, and will therefore have to break the suitcase open yourself.

MP