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Nottingham Bucks The Recession – Or Maybe Not

Where: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Julia Buckley is stuck in a hotel with horrible WiFi so we're submitting this story on her behalf.

Not that we had anything against Nottingham, but we never had it down as a trailblazing kinda town. So we’re quite impressed to hear that, while most of the UK is battening down the hatches, canceling the refurbs and slashing the rates in the face of global meltdown, good old Nottingham has just announced a new hotel brand.

The ridiculously named mourHotel (these wrong way round capitals really get on our nerves) is promising “a more sensuous, flirtatious and personable experience seasoned with an enhanced WOW factor!” This means, apparently, targeting “influential individuals with higher than average disposable incomes” and making it a “junction where business meets pleasure.” How very revolutionary.

The company aims to sign up 12 sites in the next six months, with the first in Sherwood Business Park, Nottingham. Let’s hope the rest aren’t on industrial estates as well, shall we? And we’ll be placing bets tonight on whether any of them actually see the light. Something tells us you need a bit more in the way of concepts to launch a brand, especially in times like these.

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UB40 Are a Bunch of Shitty Hotel Guests?

[Update 7.1.06: Nope. Looks like this blind item has some holes in it. UB40 fans are coming out of the woodwork to clear the air:

Regarding the story of UB40 and the hotel you wont find out which hotel it was as they never even stayed in one after the concert in Nottingham they was all back in Birmingham within 2 hours.This story is nothing but a cheap bit of rubbish wrote by someone with nothing better to do.

So there you have it, UB40 fans say this thinly-veiled blind item is all a bunch of crap--pun totally intended.]

A pretty easy blind item courtesy of PopBitch reveals a dirty side of an aging pop band who recently played a gig in Nottingham:

Which old pop group played a gig in Nottingham last weekend and managed to offend almost everyone at their hotel? The band all booked single rooms but then each smuggled someone back late that night. When cleaners started hoovering the hallways the next morning, one member of the band strode out naked from his room, told the cleaners to fuck off and that he'd hit anyone who didn't stop... "didn't they know who he was?" etc. And when the band checked out, staff discovered a turd in one of their beds. Seems like the band must have consumed too much red, red wine the night before.

So it's obvious the alleged deuce dropping bandits are the band UB40 but any one with an idea of where the group stayed, let us know.

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· UB40 in the woods 24.06.06 [BBC]