The planned closure represents a significant step in phasing out the use of hotels as emergency shelters and addressing long-term housing solutions across Massachusetts." ...

People living in Paignton, Devon, have been invited to a residents' engagement event. The event on Saturday would focus on the redevelopment and improvement projects under way or about to get ...

THE minister responsible for border security has apologised after Labour opened more asylum seeker hotels without warning despite promising to close them. Dame Angela Eagle, the Minister for ...

A 200-year-old Victorian asylum is set to be transformed into a stunning five-star hotel and spa. Photographs taken from inside the eerie building after it was abandoned have now been unearthed.

It was bought in 2019 for just £50,000 by the owners of Fonab Castle Hotel in Pitlochry. NHS Dumfries and Galloway said the deal would save the service £800,000 a year in running costs.

Ministers today backed down over plans to turn two hotels into asylum seeker hostels. The Home Office announced that a planned "induction centre" at the Coniston Hotel in Sittingbourne ...

Labour will come under fire this coming week for continuing to use hotels as accommodation for asylum seekers at a multi-million pound cost to the taxpayer when MPs vent their frustration in a ...

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Dame Angela Eagle said nine hotels are scheduled to close in March as part of the the Government’s commitment to reducing hotel use. The number of hotels used to house asylum seekers will be ...

The number of hotels used to house asylum seekers will be lower by the end of March, a Home Office minister told the Commons.Nine hotels are scheduled to close in March as part of the the Government’s ...

A man has been jailed for "horrific sexual offences" against two young victims. Craig Short, 53, of Woodland Mews in Paignton, was jailed for 12 years with a further six years to be served on extended ...

Craig Short, from Paignton, used gifts to groom and gain the trust of a vulnerable boy and girl before committing multiple offences, a court heard. The offences included showing his penis to a six ...