Meet The Seaside Hoteliers Who Turned Down £550 000 To House Migrants
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After spending a few years in Pristina after her father's job as a marketing manager took them back to his native Kosovo, Dua bravely decided to return to the UK alone at the age of 14 in pursuit of her dreams of pop stardom.
They don't have to pay, of course.' 'Our heating bills are running into hundreds a week and we are wrapping up in blankets,' said one disgruntled man in his 60s, Trikeri guided tours as he surveyed the County Hotel.
'At night I have seen the hotel's windows wide open and the warmth flying out.
But along Skegness promenade, there is already a strip of four hotels: the Grand, the Sun, the County and best private tours in Volos Airport greece the Chatsworth, which have been requisitioned for migrants by the Home Office. It ended in disarray, when a woman stood up and said the people of Skegness were racist. This may seem like a bad case of nimbyism.
Dua was granted citizenship ahead of Albania's 110th anniversary of independence from the Ottoman Empire, with President Bajram Begaj saying he considered it an honour to do so because the singer has made Albanians famous throughout the world.
The Foundation has given away 100,000 euros to charities and cultural events in Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, and runs the Sunny Hill Festival, which was headlined by Dua Lipa in 2018.
With Border Force and lifeboat rescue boats stretched to the limit, on one day alone the tally was 884. Last week, the number of Channel boat arrivals touched 2,000. Yet who can blame hoteliers for accepting huge sums of taxpayer money as the Home Office demands they help out with the immigration crisis?
A list of previous 'incidents' sent to the Home Office by local officials includes anti-migrant protests, alleged racially motivated assaults of asylum seekers, but also unproven sexual offences against women by the newcomers themselves.
When the Mail visited Skegness last week, it was clear that locals suffering a cost-of-living crisis and taxi prices Volos Airport greece soaring energy bills feel resentment that migrants are being offered free accommodation and care.
This is all a surprise for owners Gary and Dee Allen, who this week fielded off film crews, including one from Canada, queuing up to ask why they had turned down — on a 'point of principle,' as they put it — nearly £550,000, cost of taxi in Volos Airport greece which would have been a godsend for them and their three daughters, aged from six to 18.
He was joined by one of his friends, who was wearing a medical mask and Volos Airport airport to city taxi cost handed him one, too. Meanwhile, the young men smoking and looking at their mobile phones on the pavement outside were told to 'come inside'.
One stayed out and cheekily put up his thumbs before jeering at the TV crew.
A few weeks ago, as the number of migrants crossing the Channel climbed and the Government scrambled to put the new arrivals in hotels — now some 419 across the UK, with more picked up every day — the agent rang again to ask them to reconsider the deal.
One young woman walking past one of the migrant hotels late one evening was allegedly told by a man with a foreign accent standing in the front garden: 'You are a white kafir (non-Muslim) slag.' Verbal abuse is also a problem.
In the bar and restaurant area, there were only five single electric sockets. We sold everything in Nottingham to buy this hotel. The old carpets were held together with sticky tape. It was like 'God's waiting room' when we came here last year. The locals love coming here.
Surely, taxi from Volos Airport port to acropolis some wily businessperson will be ready to snap up the establishment for a guaranteed income of nearly £550,000 a year from the Government. There is no shortage of migrants needing beds in Britain.
A recent advertisement posted by Home Office recruitment agencies for migrant 'hotel housing officers' in Skegness warned: 'These roles are not for the faint-hearted. You will be based at hotels which the Government is using exclusively for asylum seekers.' Ability needed with difficult situations.
One Facebook video posted by locals shows a migrant asking a passer-by for help to find a private taxi Volos Airport greece to take him to Sheffield. He said he'd come to 'England' on a boat and had been in Skegness for three days.
Skegness is fairly isolated — the nearest city, Lincoln, is an hour away, and it takes more time still to get to Peterborough station for direct train lines to major cities in the south and north of England.
There were screams of protest from some who begged local councillors and private taxi Volos Airport greece the area's Conservative MP Matt Warman to stop its hotels being turned over to migrants. Ten days ago, Volos Airport guided tour 400 Skegness residents called a high-decibel emergency public meeting in a centre near the seafront.
In exchange for that money from taxpayers, Trikeri guided tours the Government had asked the Allens to close their doors to guests and hand over the keys of their 21-bed hotel for the next year to provide housing for young male migrants.
Where would they get work in a seaside resort out of season? How would we have lived with ourselves? The agent from the Home Office said all but one of the 15 full and part-time staff would have to be sacked. As they sit beside a roaring fire at their hotel, Gary adds: 'The neighbours would have hated us for it.
