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Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk Aloft hotel to open in Liverpool


Liverpool’s derelict Royal Insurance building is to be refurbished under an £18m partnership between the city council and Ashall Property, paving the way for Starwood Hotels to open its Aloſt brand at the landmark property. The building has been


unoccupied for two decades and is on English Heritage’s ‘at risk’ register. The planned 116-room


four-star Aloſt hotel will fea- ture the brand’s signature high ceilings, oversized windows, platform beds and walk-in showers. Facilities will include a re:chargeSM fitness centre and re:fuelSM deli and café, as well as meeting spaces. Ashall aims to begin work on the building in early May, completing at the end of 2014.


Te Royal Insurance building has been unused for the past two decades Liverpool is working to restore its historic


buildings with only 4 per cent now listed on the ‘at risk’ register, compared with 7 per cent nationally. Details: http://lei.sr?a=x0K7j


Global Zumba campaign aims to fight world hunger


Dance fitness company Zumba Fitness has launched a new initiative encouraging peo- ple: “don’t just burn calories, donate them” in a bid to help fight one of the world’s greatest health risks – hunger. ‘Te Great Calorie Drive’ initiative is a collaboration with the United


Nations World Food Programme. Participants are encouraged to shake off their calories in Zumba classes worldwide and Zumba will donate the equivalent of the average amount of calories burned per class to the food charities. Details: http://lei.sr?a=y8v8N


Stonehenge tests Neolithic houses


English Heritage has enlisted the help of volun- teers to test build three Neolithic houses that will be the centrepiece of an outdoor gallery planned for the new £27m Stonehenge visitor centre, currently under construction. Rare evidence of English Neolithic build-


ings unearthed near Stonehenge is informing the build and lessons learned from the exper- iment will be used to create the exhibit at the visitor centre. Excavation by Professor Mike Parker Pearson has uncovered floors of the houses and stake holes where the walls once stood but the above ground appearance of the houses is unknown. Materials used include 12 tonnes of chalk,


2,500 rods of wattling, 10 oak logs, 600 bun- dles of sedge, 600 bundles of water reed and hundreds of timber stakes and raſters. English Heritage senior properties historian Susan


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Te houses will go on display at Stonehenge


Greaney said: “The reconstructed houses will be an immediate and sensory link to the distant past and will bring visitors as close as they can to appreciate what life was like for the extraordinary individuals who built Stonehenge.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=c5x1C


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