Royal Bank of Scotland today said it had sold Brighton’s Hilton Metropole for £39.3m in its 11th large hotel sale since being bailed out.

A 29-year-old man arrested in connection with claims by a 17-year-old girl that she was gang raped in the Grosvenor House Hotel in London has been released on bail pending further inquiries, Scotland Yard said tonight.

The victim of an alleged gang rape involving Premiership soccer stars was said to be “devastated” by the version of events given by a football party fixer over the weekend.