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**What was your best subject at school?**

PE or drama, I loved anything sporty or where I could show off!

Watergate Bay managing director Will Ashworth has confirmed the group is still targeting a collection of five or six Another Place-branded hotels over the next five years, with Amport House in Hampshire announced as the latest addition.

Brewer and pub company Marston’s has announced plans to merge with Carlsberg UK in a £780m deal.

UKHospitality has called on government to support a safe and sustainable reopening for restaurants, pubs and hotels this summer through its #Fair4Hospitality campaign.

As the eighth week of lockdown concludes, we look at what operators are doing to maintain and improve properties, manage staff and prepare to reopen in a world with different challenges and opportunities.

Catering giant Compass has been successful in its £2b share placing, having yesterday announced the move to allow it to “weather” the profound impact of the coronavirus crisis.

More than a dozen former winners of The Caterer’s Hotelier of the Year award have unveiled beards grown during the coronavirus lockdown to raise money for charity.

Dalata Hotel Group founder and chief executive Pat McCann has said he sees 2021 as the year of “rebuilding”. While he doesn’t expect 2019 levels of trading by 2022, he hopes the business could be “well on our way to getting there” by then.

A glowing review usually portends an influx of customers, but when the lockdown left Joe Fox and Nick Gilkinson facing the possibly of none, the pair switched to delivery.

Large businesses will be able to access up to £200m under the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) after the scheme was extended by the Treasury.