in brief

Hellaby Hall win

Hellaby Hall Hotel in Hellaby, near Rotherham, has won Yorkshire and Humberside Tourist Board's White Rose award for hotel of the year.

Yorkshire and Humberside Tourist Board is to drop Humberside from its name in the autumn. But the new Yorkshire Tourist Board, to be officially launched in October, will cover the same geographic area as before.

Lovat arms sale

A flood of prospective international buyers is expected for the 23-bedroom, two-star Lovat Arms Hotel, at the head of Loch Ness, which has been put on to the market.

Hector and Mary MacLean, owners of the hotel for the past six years, have decided to retire. Agent Christie & Co said there was a "staggering" level of interest in the property even before particulars of the sale were prepared.

Doorman jailed

An off-duty doorman from London's Grosvenor House hotel was jailed for 42 days and ordered to pay £200 compensation for causing actual bodily harm to a bystander who tried to stop him attacking two men.

In his defence Paul Travis said he had mistaken Andrew Ryser for one of the men who had picked a fight with him after he challenged them for harassing women in a bar where they were all drinking.