bellinghman | A bad rep?

The following headline is on the BBC web site today, in the 'North' section: Hotel rejects 'theft hotspot' tag

I didn't even need to look to know which particular establishment they were referring to. After all, how many such places can there be?

Crime figures from May 2005 to May 2006 show four out of five room burglaries in Liverpool hotels happened at the Adelphi in Ranelagh Place.

It's a shame, a real shame, but no surprise. We'll be there next Easter, but there's no way we're actually taking a room there - we've too many friends who have been stolen from, there.

(Edit: a single comma added.)

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In addition, I strongly suspect that not all attending members could be persuaded to stay there.

(This strong suspicion is reinforced by the fact that we are booked into a different hotel.)

This may be the make-or-break occasion for the Adelphi, so far as general UK fandom is concerned. If no problems occur, then the sceptics may be won back. But if the usual level does occur, then I think it'll be another decade before fandom could be persuaded to return.

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