I'm not a gimmickA new "ethical" shopping bag has been launched in Britain to encourage shoppers to ditch plastic carriers.

Created by Fairtrade fashion firm People Tree, the bag's logo was inspired by ActionAid's research into the "unfair international trading system" and reads "Who Pays? Supermarket price wars lead to poverty and exploitation". Its launch follows the sell-out success of the Anya Hindmarch reusable "I'm not a plastic bag" carriers.

Flight training

Ryanair was last week banned from claiming its London to Brussels flights were faster and cheaper than Eurostar. The budget airline's advert compared its one-hour-10-minute flight to the two-hour-11-minute train trip.

It neglected to mention, however, that travelling from London and Brussels city centres to the two airports used by Ryanair would add a total of one hour and 45 minutes to the total journey time, the British Advertising Standards Authority said.

Hospital coffee

We mixed up our hospitals in last week's item on the comparative price of coffee in Dublin and Rome.

The Café Kylemore outlet referred to by our reader is in St James's Hospital in Dublin and not in St Vincent's in which, we are told, coffee costs a lot less than €3.