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 ...

Welsh retail park out of control as police called in to deal with behaviour at Morrisons, Tesco and McDonald's

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 it warns over jobs and investment

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

'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, ...

Couple stay in Wetherspoons hotel in Wales and are floored when breakfast bill arrives

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone knows their pubs, but the massive JD Wetherspoon chain also includes a number of budget hotels – two ...

'I stayed at Wetherspoon hotel for £58 - one thing in room was astonishing'

Tom Parker Bowles tests the budget hotel chain that just beat Premier Inn in Which? rankings, finding 'astonishing value' at ...

'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 ...