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Nearly a third of Britons will squeeze £500-worth of high-tech gadgets into their suitcases as they set off on their summer holidays, according to a new study.
Far from getting away from it all, most British tourists (85%) take their mobile phones away with them, along with their digital cameras (74%).
Britons just could not bear to be without their CD players (27%) and iPods (17%), while one in 10 even admitted taking their laptops on holiday, research from Direct Line Travel Insurance found.