Bristol's Brigstow for sale

The Brigstow in Bristol is up for sale. The four-star hotel (116 rooms) by the Welsh Back waterfront, has a good reputation under its manager, Tim Howes, who was kind enough to bulk order copies of High Times at the Hotel Bristol when it was first published. His reason for the interest? Brigstow is an old name for Bristol, a Saxon word meaning the place on the bridge. The hotel is on the market through Savills, who are asking for offers exceeding £9m (£77,500 per room). They are optimistic about finding a buyer. "Bristol's hotel market is currently outperforming the UK regional average," says James Bradley of the agent's hotel team. "We have already received significant interest."
We certainly look forward to the Brigstow's continued prosperity.

Russians stick to the Warsaw Bristol

On the tenth day of every month a demonstration takes place outside the presidential palace in Warsaw, to commemorate the plane crash in Russia in 2010 in which President Lech Kaczynski and other top politicians died. A few yards away is the Warsaw Bristol, where the Russian football team have booked a whole floor for Euro 2012.  Poland's sports minister Joanna Mucha thinks the demonstrators might spread to to the hotel and has asked the Russians to find somewhere else to stay. But the Russians are refusing to budge. They play their first game, against the Czech Republic, on June 8, and play Poland on June 12.
The Warsaw Bristol was founded by the piano-playing president Ignacy Paderewski in 1897, and the hotel features in the story "Lady Thatcher's Finest Hour" in High Times at the Hotel Bristol.