Trafford Centre
The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre located in Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

It has 118,766 square meters (1.2m square feet) of retail space and attracts 29 million visits annually. It is made up of 4 main areas: Peel Avenue, Regent Crescent, The Dome and The Orient. The centre is owned by the Peel Holdings. The centre was designed so that visitors enter on both of the two main shopping floors in equal numbers [1]. This helps avoid the problem suffered by other centers, such as the Metro Centre, where visitors do not go to upper floors meaning that many big retailers avoid upper floor units.

The Dome

The Dome is in the middle of the centre and is home to more up market stores such as the first Selfridges outside of London.

Regent Crescent

Regent Crescent is the area where most of the high end designer stores are situated like Karen Millen, Jane Norman, Gap and Mexx, it is home to two bookshops as well as Water stones and Borders and it is also home to two department stores BHS and Debenhams which is at the end of Regent Crescent.

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Heathrow Airport
London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL) is one of the busiest airports in the world.
The airport is owned and operated by BAA[3] which is owned by the Spanish Ferrovial Group. The airport is also a primary hub of British Airways and a major hub for rivals bmi and Virgin Atlantic.

Heathrow started in the 1930s as the Great Western Aerodrome. Privately owned by Fairey Aviation, it was used primarily for aircraft assembly and testing.

In 1944 Heathrow came under the control of the Ministry of Air. In 1953, the first concrete slab of the first modern runway was ceremonially placed by Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1977, the London Underground was extended to Heathrow; connecting the airport with Central London in just under an hour via the Piccadilly Line.

Now, Heathrow is used by over 90 airlines which fly to around 170 destinations worldwide (see Airlines and destinations below). Of the airport’s 67 million annual passengers, 11% travel to UK destinations, 43% are short-haul international travellers, and 46% are long-haul. The airport currently has four passenger terminals (Terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4) and a cargo terminal.

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