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Bass Hotels and Resorts has announced a 110 million-euro joint venture investment with Warimpex Finanz and UBM Vienna - to develop a new flagship hotel ... More

Interbrew has won leave to pursue a judicial review of the British government's decision to block last year's £2.3bn acquisition of Bass Brewers. Interbrew chair, ... More

Pierre-Yves Gerbeau has withdrawn from the bidding for the Millennium Dome. Gerbeau, who had teamed up with James Palumbo, the owner of the Ministry of ... More

Caffe Nero is floating on the London Stock Exchange following a placing of shares by Collins Stewart. The flotation has raised £9m in new money ... More

The Tidy Britain Group has awarded 308 beaches with the Seaside Award, adding 36 more beaches to the list since last year. The Group says ... More

The National Art Collections Fund has pledged £500,000 towards the purchase of Study of a Mourning Woman, a drawing by Michelangelo, priced at £7.5m. The ... More

Nomura's Guy Hands has acquired Compass' four-star Cumberland Hotel for a cash consideration of £150m. The 895-bed London property, at the corner of Oxford Street ... More

The launch of Longleat's 2001 season has been delayed due to the Foot and Mouth crisis currently sweeping the UK. The Safari Park, Longleat House ... More

Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has launched positive interim results and plans to strengthen its portfolio by one third. The group already owns 470 properties, with ... More

Health clubs in 'America's fattest city', Philadelphia, have been urged to slash their prices as the city goes into fitness overdrive. Mayor John Street, who ... More

Multiplex cinemas have been credited with cinema admissions hitting a 27-year high, according to the National Statistics Office. In 2000 the number of cinema screens ... More

As a new Rural Task Force is launched, chaired by the Minister of State for the Environment, Michael Meacher, various initiatives to help the leisure ... More

Pop pensioner Lita Roza, the first ever Scouser to scoop a number one hit, is heading back to Liverpool to launch a tribute to scores ... More

The 2001/2002 edition of the England Group and Tour Directory has been published by the English Tourism Council (ETC) aimed particularly at group travel. The ... More

Revenue is up for Club Méditerranée's first quarter of its financial year 2001 (which began on 1 November 2000). Revenue reached 394.5 million Euros against ... More

The International Food and Drink Exhibition is to go ahead as scheduled on 25-28 March; organisers say the exhibition has been largely unaffected by the ... More

Esporta has launched a new scheme, Freeway @ Esporta, giving members free access to all clubs within the Esporta group. Members' monthly fees will now ... More

The British Olympic Association has met with London Mayor Ken Livingstone and government ministers to present its detailed proposals for a bid for the 2012 ... More

The Arts Council has shared out an extra £25m from the government between regional theatres and touring drama companies. Almost 200 state-funded theatres across England ... More

Cannons health clubs is answering members' nutritional queries and needs with the launch of The Food Doctor. The Food Doctor is an already established internet ... More

Levels of adult participation in sport in Wales have risen to the highest since records began, according to research by the Sports Council for Wales. ... More

Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is moving into, as yet, unchartered territory for a pub by declaring a war on high street coffee chains. Its in-house ... More

Containing a virtually complete Arts and Crafts interior, Blackwell in Bowness on Windermere in Cumbria is due to open to the public in July. The ... More

UK Athletics, in partnership with Sport England and AAA of England, is overseeing a development plan set to deliver about £80m of new facilities by ... More

Baby charity, Tommy's Campaign (in association with Huggies Little Swimmers), is challenging swimming pools across the UK to hold a Splashathon, in order to raise ... More