In Which I Discover Poverty... In the Foyer of a Premier Inn

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IT'S NOT great being poor in Britain. The rich have their path through life smoothed and buffed. For the less welloff, everything - even the tiniest of things - is difficult. Take my experience on Thursday. I drove down from the Lake District to London for work, not thinking I would be unable to book a hotel room because of the cancelled flights.

I rang all the usual places I stay in: fully booked, apart from a junior suite at the Haymarket Hotel that was going for Pounds 550, plus VAT, plus internet, plus breakfast. Even I baulked at that.

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In Which I Discover Poverty... In the Foyer of a Premier Inn

I finally got a room in a Premier Inn in Kensington. I couldn't find it, never having had the need to notice it before. I called them. It turned out I was about 100ft from the hotel, but not one memb...

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