Refurbishment of the Corn Exchange includes restoring the natural daylight, introducing new retractable and balcony seating, improving the technical equipment as well as enhancing the buildings acoustics.

The Studio Theatre is also being refurbished and remodelled with new retractable and balcony seating.

The Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Café-bar and Founders Room will remain open throughout

All the new facilities will be available to book from February 2019.

Details: https://brightondome.org/our_future/improvements_to_brighton_dome/corn_exchange/

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Published: 09 February 2018

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The yacht-inspired Southampton Harbour Hotel & Spa opened in October 2017 at Ocean Village Marina. Its new AA rating makes it Southampton’s only five-star hotel.

Southampton Harbour Hotel & Spa has 85 bedrooms and six self-contained apartments.

The Jetty is the hotel’s ground floor restaurant with cocktails served in the HarBAR, a rooftop destination bar on the sixth floor with views across the marina.

Spa facilities can be found in HarSPA.

Southampton Harbour Hotel & Spa has two meeting and events suites, both with floor-to-ceiling windows and equipped the latest technology. ‘The Bow’ will seat up to 150 delegates theatre style. ‘The Needles’ will accommodate up to 80 delegates theatre style.

Harbour Hotels is a collection of fourteen hotels which developed initially along the south coast of England in towns including Sidmouth, Salcombe, St Ives and Christchurch. The group has now expanded inland to UK cities -  including Chichester, Guildford and Bristol.

Details: https://www.southampton-harbour-hotel.co.uk/

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Published: 09 February 2018

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Manchester City’s star striker Sergio Aguero, Bournemouth FC’s goalkeeper Asmir Begovic and Olympic rowing champion Sir Steve Redgrave are just three of the people reportedly behind the project.

The seven-storey Beneficial House was built between 1959 and 1962 and was once the home of Snobs nightclub. The property has since fallen into disrepair and large sections of it have not been used for many years.

Beneficial House is located on the corner of Suffolk Street and Paradise Circus in the centre of Birmingham – a two-minute walk from Birmingham New Street Station.

Birmingham City Council is to vote on the proposals at a meeting on Thursday 15 February 2018.

http://www.venuebooking.com/newcsm/index.php/2161-football-stars-behind-new-hotel-plans

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The new Crowne Plaza Manchester Oxford Road, which is scheduled to open in May 2018, is naming its meeting rooms after famous Manchester University alumni. 

The location of the hotel on Oxford Road in the heart of Manchester’s ‘University Quarter’ has prompted the decision.

Lots of celebrities, prize-winning academics, actors, artists, architects and scientists have worked and studied at the University and UMIST down the years

Those who have been name-checked with a room dedicated to their achievements include: computing expert Alan Turing; Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the famous British astronomer; Nobel prize-winning architect Norman Foster; chemist Sir Robert Robinson; former Chief Executive of Manchester City Council Sir Howard Bernstein; English comedienne, screenwriter and actress Jennifer Saunders; Manchester Town Hall architect Alfred Waterhouse and Dame Nancy Rothwell - the British physiologist who has been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester since July 2010.

The Crowne Plaza will share its 19-storey building with Staybridge Suites Manchester Oxford Road. Both hotels are taking bookings from the 7^thMay 2018.

Crowne Plaza – Manchester Oxford Road will have 212 bedrooms, a 120-cover restaurant, seven meeting rooms and a gym - from the ground floor up to the eleventh floor.

Staybridge Suites – Manchester Oxford Road will have a mix of 116 studio and one bedroom suites located on the upper eight floors.

Details: https://www.bha.org.uk/bha_members_news/crowne-plaza-manchester-oxford-road-dedicates-meeting-rooms-famous-university-alumni/

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Published: 08 February 2018

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