220 jobs go as UK hotel chain closes

A private hotel and pub business which went into administration earlier this month is closing five hotels and 15 managed pubs with the loss of 220 jobs around the UK, it was announced today.

Administrators from Ernst & Young were appointed two weeks ago to oversee the running of the London and Edinburgh Swallow Group, which is the parent company of Swallow Hotels, while it looked for buyers for its pubs and hotels.