Crime

Police have said they are investigating 10 crimes related to the Suites hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside, including assaults, malicious phone calls and verbal abuse of staff and residents.

Restaurants in East London have been repeatedly targeted by vandals in a series of “senseless” attacks that are costing businesses thousands of pounds.

A London restaurant worker is in hospital in an induced coma after being seriously assaulted outside his workplace last week.

A housekeeper has admitted stealing nearly £200,000 worth of jewellery from a guest bedroom, while working at the London Hilton on Park Lane.