Lynette Horsburgh BBC News, Manchester Colin Nulty The shooting took place metres away from guests relaxing at the pool at the Riu Palace hotel in Cancun Colin Nulty was lying by the pool on his family’s dream holiday in Cancun, Mexico, when moments later he heard gunshots being fired just metres away. He and his...
One of the secrets to not having a heart attack around Donald Trump at least once a week is to realize that he just throws things ‘out there‘ not so much to see what sticks, but to see what blows up. Much of what is perceived as him stepping on himself – or his ‘message’...
Alison Stephenson Local Democracy Reporting Service Google About 35 jobs are expected to be created, the planning application says A hotel with 30 beds and a camping site for motorhomes is set to be built close to a retirement village in Holsworthy. A planning application to build on land adjacent to Rydon Village off the...
Large asylum seeker sites like Wethersfield air base in Essex are set to be expanded under plans to end the use of asylum hotels, the BBC can reveal. Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to stop using taxpayer-funded hotels by 2029 in her Spending Review, saying this would save £1bn. One of the ways the Home Office...
A former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testifying for a second day at his criminal trial under the pseudonym “Jane”, described how she felt pressured to engage in sexual encounters with male escorts while he watched, despite her expressing they upset her. She also alleged a network of employees helped procure drugs for the lengthy...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC The Seabury Hotel in Torquay is being demolished to make way for social housing A derelict hotel in a seaside resort is being demolished, with social housing to be built in its place. Torbay Council agreed to borrow up to £20m to fund the Hotels to Homes project....
Wendy Norris and Steve Jackson run the Berburry Hotel Read full article at source...
At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed after a massive fire broke out at a hotel in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Two people were also seriously injured in the fire, which started on Tuesday night at Rituraj Hotel in Kolkata city. The blaze is now under control, but authorities...
“They just look at you like you’re nothing,” said a housekeeper from the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Buffalo, New York. Sitting with me for a conversation in her East Side apartment, the housekeeper, who requested not to be named due to fear of retaliation, spoke of slashed hours and stagnant pay, arduous and unfair...
Emma Davies/BBC Protesters in front of a Tenerife hotel on Thursday Holidaymakers heading to Tenerife in the Canary Islands are warned to prepare for disruption as hotel workers take part in strikes at the start of the Easter bank holiday weekend. Organisers say workers on the island are striking on Thursday and Friday in a...
PA Media The prime minister met steelworkers in Lincolnshire shortly after the hearing in House of Commons There was a moment where all they could do was wait. Government officials were holed up in a Premier Inn down the road from British Steel’s steelworks in Scunthorpe and parliament’s work to change the law to allow...
A Norwegian teenager has been arrested in a West Yorkshire hotel room and charged with firearms offences in a case connected to national security, the BBC can reveal. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 18, was arrested by firearms officers in Huddersfield on 19 March. He had flown into Manchester Airport two days earlier from Stavanjer, Norway. The...
The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company’s performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also...