A hotel set in the heart of the Lake District is eagerly anticipating the return of tourists as it prepares to open its doors for the first time this year. The Glaramara Hotel, based in Borrowdale, will finally begin to welcome back guests from May 17 after a year filled with uncertainties and financial difficulties for many businesses in the retail and hospitality industries. David Oglethorpe, managing director, made the decision to keep the doors to the hotel shut during the brief lockdown lull in December as most of their clientele were in tiers three and four, so there is a sense of relief to finally be reopening.
1/1 TOP hotels across Cumbria were targeted by an audacious fraud gang whose members repeatedly used stolen credit cards to cream off illegal profits of almost £14,000. Over the course of three days, the criminals involved toured hotels in north, west and south Cumbria, systematically scamming each one out of hundreds of pounds as they used a series of stolen bank cards. At Carlisle Crown Court yesterday, the leader of the group was given a 20 month jail term for her role in the scam. Sonia Malhi, 39, whose criminal record already included 42 previous frauds and 36 thefts, pleaded guilty to a catalogue of crime. She admitted two counts of conspiring to commit fraud as well as shoplifting, possessing cocaine, and possessing a knuckle-duster.
TOP hotels were targeted by an audacious fraud gang whose members repeatedly used stolen credit cards to cream off illegal profits of almost £14,000. Over the course of three days, the criminals involved toured hotels across the Lake District and Cumbria, systematically scamming each one out of hundreds of pounds as they used a series of stolen bank cards. At Carlisle Crown Court yesterday, the leader of the group was given a 20 month jail term for her role in the scam. Sonia Malhi, 39, whose criminal record already included 42 previous frauds and 36 thefts, pleaded guilty to a catalogue of crime. She admitted two counts of conspiring to commit fraud as well as shoplifting, possessing cocaine, and possessing a knuckle-duster.