The hotels are currently owned by CDL Hotels International, which in turn is M&C's majority shareholder. The acquisitions will raise M&C from the status of a regional group, with hotels in Europe and the US, to the world's 20th largest hotel owner
A FRIEND of mine is busy gearing up for her daughter's seventh birthday. The birthday girl and 11 of her friends are in a state of excitement about her party at the ice rink in Queen Square, Brighton. In the meantime they're using the party as a good
WE already know that Micky Adams is a no-nonsense manager. We know he wants his team to be fitter to cope with the rigours of the Third Division. Now we know he possesses the power to peer into the future as well! Adams missed an instantly forgettable
OPTICIANS and police have joined forces to fight the theft of expensive frames. Thieves pretending to be trying on glasses on display shelves in Brighton shops are switching designer frames for cheap imitations and selling the stolen ones later in pubs
THE father of murdered Sussex PC Jeffrey Tooley, today pleaded: "Please help find my son's killer." Barry Tooley, 51, flew from his home in America today following the hit and run death of his 26-year-old son on Saturday. Fighting back tears and embracing
SIR Paul McCartney is staging his first art show - in Germany. The songwriter, who lives in Peasmarsh, near Rye, is to exhibit 70 of his colourful paintings. Portraits of his wife Linda, who died of cancer last year, are likely to be among those shown
HEALTH Secretary Frank Dobson told a Brighton conference today: "I want to reduce assaults on hospital staff." He was speaking to health officials at the annual conference of Unison, Britain's largest union. Mr Dobson told delegates at the Brighton Centre
TRAVELLERS facing eviction from an illegal camp said today: "We are bringing money into Shoreham." Adur District Council has started legal action to evict the travellers from Ropetackle, a site off the Old Shoreham Road, bordering the River Adur. Householders
OPTICIANS and police have joined forces to fight the theft of expensive frames. Thieves pretending to be trying on glasses on display shelves in Brighton shops are switching designer frames for cheap imitations and selling the stolen ones later in pubs
AROUND 30 NHS staff are set to lose their jobs in a radical shake-up of local health services. Managers and workers of fundholding GP practices are being made redundant as surgeries are taken over by new primary care groups run by doctors and community
HEAVYWEIGHT wrestler Yokozuna can certainly pack a lunch. The 45-stone mean, but far from lean eating machine, staged a ringside tummy rumble in front of 600 flabbergasted people at Brighton's Dome on Saturday night. After the British Wrestling Federation
A YOUNG mum is pleading with the Government to rescue her father from his Moroccan jail cell so he can see his grandchild for the first time. Leanne Saxby was six months pregnant when she last saw her father, Greg, as he set sail for the Mediterranean
CAR spares shop worker Glen Carter found changing a bulb for a customer was more dangerous than he anticipated. The father-of-two from Wivelsfield Green, near Burgess Hill, was hit by a Volvo in a bizarre accident at the VKM shop in Station Road, Burgess
HEALTH Secretary Frank Dobson told a Brighton conference today: "I want to reduce assaults on hospital staff." He was speaking to health officials at the annual conference of Unison, Britain's largest union. Mr Dobson told delegates at the Brighton Centre
TRAVELLERS facing eviction from an illegal camp said today: "We are bringing money into Shoreham." Adur District Council has started legal action to evict the travellers from Ropetackle, a site off the Old Shoreham Road, bordering the River Adur. Householders
AROUND 30 NHS staff are set to lose their jobs in a radical shake-up of local health services. Managers and workers of fundholding GP practices are being made redundant as surgeries are taken over by new primary care groups run by doctors and community
HEAVYWEIGHT wrestler Yokozuna can certainly pack a lunch. The 45-stone mean, but far from lean eating machine, staged a ringside tummy rumble in front of 600 flabbergasted people at Brighton's Dome on Saturday night. After the British Wrestling Federation
A YOUNG mum is pleading with the Government to rescue her father from his Moroccan jail cell so he can see his grandchild for the first time. Leanne Saxby was six months pregnant when she last saw her father, Greg, as he set sail for the Mediterranean
The hotels are currently owned by CDL Hotels International, which in turn is M&C's majority shareholder. The acquisitions will raise M&C from the status of a regional group, with hotels in Europe and the US, to the world's 20th largest hotel owner
A FRIEND of mine is busy gearing up for her daughter's seventh birthday. The birthday girl and 11 of her friends are in a state of excitement about her party at the ice rink in Queen Square, Brighton. In the meantime they're using the party as a good
CAR spares shop worker Glen Carter found changing a bulb for a customer was more dangerous than he anticipated. The father-of-two from Wivelsfield Green, near Burgess Hill, was hit by a Volvo in a bizarre accident at the VKM shop in Station Road, Burgess
WE already know that Micky Adams is a no-nonsense manager. We know he wants his team to be fitter to cope with the rigours of the Third Division. Now we know he possesses the power to peer into the future as well! Adams missed an instantly forgettable
THE father of murdered Sussex PC Jeffrey Tooley, today pleaded: "Please help find my son's killer." Barry Tooley, 51, flew from his home in America today following the hit and run death of his 26-year-old son on Saturday. Fighting back tears and embracing
SIR Paul McCartney is staging his first art show - in Germany. The songwriter, who lives in Peasmarsh, near Rye, is to exhibit 70 of his colourful paintings. Portraits of his wife Linda, who died of cancer last year, are likely to be among those shown
