Whitbread plc, the owner of leisure brands Costa Coffee and Premier Inn, is set to create 170 jobs after acquiring The Shepherds Hotel and Restaurant in Cockermouth, Cumbria. Following the acquisition ...

A Cumbrian hotel has been sold for redevelopment as an 80-bedroom Premier Inn and linked 200-seat Brewer's Fayre restaurant off an asking price of £1.1m. The 26-room Shepherd's Hotel and Restaurant ...