Scandal of Scots B&B Battalions ; Soldiers and Families Living in Cheap Hotels [Scot Region Edition 2]
Mail on Sunday › November 08, 2009
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MILITARY families are having to be put up in budget hotels because of substandard Ministry of Defence accommodation.
The Scottish Mail on Sunday has learned members of the Armed Forces and their loved ones are being offered rooms in Premier Inns and other cheap hotels if there are no suitable homes near where they are stationed.See the full content of this document
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Scandal of Scots B&B Battalions ; Soldiers and Families Living in Cheap Hotels [Scot Region Edition 2]
The disclosure comes on the day the country remembers its war dead and after one of the Army's bloodiest weeks in Afghanistan.
More than 40 per cent of service personnel homes are substandard, forcing the MoD to spend Pounds 6 million a month on alternative quarters.Premier Inn, whose TV adverts are fronted by comedian Lenny Henry, h...See the full content of this document
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