35 h. ago Family of Scots dad who died in hotel in Colombia fear his body ‘has already been buried’

THE family of a Scottish dad who died in Columbia have been left outraged after he was buried in South America without their permission. Ross Macquarrie, 38, was tragically found dead by hotel staff in Bogotá on November 11. His family have been tirelessly fighting to have his body returned from the Columbian capital. But...

Society

40 h. ago Man banned from every pub in Wales after violent assault on bar staff

Julio Waters and his father Wayne attacked a member of staff at the Ambassador Hotel in Neath. Waters was sentenced to 27 months in prison and given a two-year ban from all licensed premises in Wales

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52 h. ago Woman thrown out of hotel after staff thought she was a man files lawsuit and claims they smeared her in ‘panicked’ response

Ansley Baker says she was accused of ‘obscene behavior’ in a bathroom stall following the incident at the Liberty Hotel in Boston

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60 h. ago I never thought I’d see an asylum hotel on fire, or worry about my staff’s safety. The past five years changed that | Enver Solomon

As head of an immigration charity, I’ve seen firsthand how hostility and toxicity have reached unprecedented levelsEnver Solomon is the outgoing chief executive of the Refugee CouncilIt is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have been chief executive of the Refugee Council since 2020, and I am struck by the fact that there have been four bills that have become law since I started. A fifth one in as many years is expected soon as Home Office officials beaver away under the orders of the home secretary to quickly turn the proposed asylum reforms, published in November, into legislation.As I prepare to leave the organisation this month, I have been reflecting on how the asylum and migration landscape has changed. It’s clear the rhetoric and intent behind all these new laws has been the same: to deter so-called asylum shopping, to disrupt the people-smuggling gangs, to ramp up removals of...

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3 d. ago Man charged with possession of firearm and knife after 'attack' on hotel staff in Manchester

The man is due to appear in court next month

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3 d. ago Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creationsOne rainy afternoon last winter, sitting under a blanket with a cup of tea, I found myself Googling paintings by Chaïm Soutine. It’s a pastime I’ve indulged ever since visiting an exhibition of his portraits of hotel staff on the French Riviera during the 1920s – paintings that combine such a mixture of tenderness and debasement that it’s as if his brush is kissing and beating his subjects at the same time.I flicked through images of hopelessly innocent cooks and bellboys, with complexions the colour of raw sausage and ears that look as if they have been brutally yanked. And as I did, I came across a review of the very show where I had first encountered Soutine’s works. Ah, I thought, looking forward to luxuriating in literature about his particular genius for kindly sadism. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence

The death of a friend and the attempted murder of her husband Salman Rushdie loom large in the poet’s moving memoirThe night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a poem at the ceremony, but no one had heard from her. Her phone was going straight to voicemail and staff at her hotel said she hadn’t checked in. “We’ll find her. She wouldn’t miss your wedding,” Griffiths’s sister, Melissa, assured her. But the next afternoon, in the middle of her wedding reception, Griffiths learned that Moon had died alone at home in Atlanta of unknown causes. On hearing the news she collapsed, hit her head on a table and blacked out. Paramedics pried open her eyes to shine a torch on them: “A particle of light that is so distant from the world I once knew.”For Griffiths, 47, the death of her best friend and “chosen sister” was one in a series of upheavals stre...

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8 d. ago 'Disgraceful': Readers react as homeless man turned away from Holiday Inn speaks out

A member of staff at the hotel refused to check them in

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1 week ago Hayley McQueen says Man Utd icon Gordon believed 'heading a football behind dementia'

TV presenter Hayley McQueen has said her father would complain of headaches after football training as she told an inquest how her dad believed "heading a football" did not help his eventually diagnosis of dementia

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2 w. ago England and Great Britain water polo coach, 34, found dead in hotel room

Andrew McGinty was found dead by hotel staff one week before Christmas

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2 w. ago Man dies choking during hotel eating contest as staff accused of 'doing nothing'

A dad of four died after a 'Watermelon Mouth' competition while on holiday with his family, and his wife is now reportedly planning to take legal action against the resort

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3 w. ago 'My stay at the £48 bathroom hotel where all staff wear pyjamas left me stunned'

I was greeted by staff in pyjamas and stayed in a room dedicated to the theme of a WC in one of the most unusual but delightful hotel stays in the heart of a bustling city

Economics

3 w. ago King’s Cross hotel fire sees 30 staff and guests evacuated by crews

King’s Cross hotel fire sees 30 staff and guests evacuated by crews  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago King’s Cross hotel fire sees 30 staff and guests evacuated as smoker blamed

Emergency crews rescued four others at around 2am on Saturday in central London

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3 w. ago The dogs and cats homeless this Christmas who need to find a loving family in 2026

There are thousands of dogs and cats spending Christmas in kennels this year - change their life in 2026

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3 w. ago Hotel staff make horrifying discovery as guest checks out after two years

The male guest, who had been staying for two years at the hotel, left his room in a state of squalor, with footage showing mounds of rubbish, empty bottles, and used toilet paper.

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4 w. ago Homeless family told as they have 'no right to complain' by hotel staff

The family of five were packed into one room for a 'stressful' four months

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4 w. ago Prince William and George follow Diana’s footsteps and prepare Christmas lunch for the homeless

Visiting The Passage is a family tradition that was started in 1993 by the late Princess of Wales and continued on by Prince William

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last month 'My Tui holiday became nightmare after hotel staff member's strange attack'

Ryan Mendelson was enjoying a two-week package holiday in Cape Verde when he said a staff member at the Hotel RIU Touareg 'kneed' him in the back of the knees

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last month Family will wake up homeless on Christmas after tumble dryer fire devastation

Claire Sayonas, 39, was at home with her youngest daughter when she heard a "little pop" from the kitchen before the devastating blaze ripped through her Anfield home

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