Wales breaking news plus weather and traffic updates (Saturday, January 17)

Hello, and welcome to WalesOnline's live blog for Saturday, January 17. We'll be bringing you all of the latest news from ...

Two retail parks, a fast-food restaurant, supermarkets and a hotel are all covered

Police have been given extra powers to deal with anti-social behaviour at two retail parks in Carmarthenshire. A dispersal ...
East Anglian Daily Times

Premier Inn owner Whitbread warns business rates will cost it £35m

Premier Inn owner Whitbread has warned rising business rates will cost it £35m. The rateable value of its Nelson Hotel, on Norwich's Prince ...

Business confidence collapses under Labour's 'crushing' tax burden and workers' rights laws

Worries about tax have more than doubled since the last general election, a poll by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in ...

Whitbread in £35m business rates hit as Entertainer chief says Labour is 'taking a knife' to the struggling High Street

The owner of Premier Inn weighed into the backlash against Labour's botched business rates reforms. Whitbread said the policy ...

Major hotel chain sets sights on Outer London as part of latest expansion plans

Whitbread is planning to add more than 2,200 Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn bedrooms across 17 Outer London locations as ...

'We stayed in a Wetherspoons hotel and were gobsmacked as soon as we shut door'

YouTubers Ashley McCarthy and Kelsey Lewis stayed at J D Wetherspoon's Wyndham Arms hotel in Bridgend, Wales, and were ...

'We spent the night in Wetherspoons hotel - one thing disappeared as soon as we shut door'

YouTubers Ashley McCarthy and Kelsey Lewis reviewed the Wyndham Arms in Bridgend, Wales, praising the £55 room rate, ...

'I've slept at royal residences and Wetherspoons hotel - I found one aspect astonishing'

The pub chain Wetherspoon is renowned for its budget pub chain but now its reasonably priced hotels are causing a stir as ...

'I nearly passed out, it was so big' - 2025 big cat sightings in North Wales

Two holidaymakers independently claimed to have spotted a large black cat with a “very long and thick tail” in the Anglesey countryside. It was later reported to Puma Watch in the belief a suspected ...
The Straits Times

Sydney could see army patrols after Bondi attack, New South Wales Premier says

, with the authorities leaving open the possibility of military support as the country reassesses its counter-terrorism posture. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said on Dec 28 that residents ...